Visit us online for news, features and media nostalgia KELSEY KELSEY 7 May 20207 May Issue £3.30 5513 media KELSEY KELSEY fishingnews.co.uk BREXIT TALKS DEADLOCKED TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT Girl Dee Dee joins Beaming during Brendan South West fleet The Buccaneer B21 Girl Dee Dee is lifted from workshop to lorry, before being taken to Newlyn to be launched. Deckhand Danny guides the port side beam trawl down onto the deck. Built to the highest of standards, the Skipper Daniel Gilbert, who is also latest Buccaneer B21, Girl Dee Dee FH a self-trained GRP boatbuilder and 31, was launched on 24 April at Newlyn maker of the 14ft open boat Sea King, in Cornwall, reports Phil Lockley. described the standard of workmanship Skipper/owner Daniel Gilbert will from PK Composites as ‘superb and soon begin his work as a potter – truly outstanding’. ‘using singles instead of strings’, he He added: “I am absolutely over the said. moon; the quality of build is the best I The Julie of Ladram E 271 was built in Holland in 1983. Similar in fit-out to advanced beach have ever seen, and as a boatbuilder (Photo: Alan Letcher) boats at coves such as Cadgwith, the myself, I don’t say that lightly.” Girl Dee Dee is equally suitable for Having chosen a multi-purpose craft, Photographer Tony Fitzsimmons, tasked by Waterdance non-tidal harbours like Newlyn. Daniel Gilbert will initially be fishing to document work onboard its fleet of boats, reports on Built at the premises of Falmouth shellfish using large single creels his latest trip – four stormy January days on the 38m beam Mouldings, the Girl Dee Dee is the work supplied by Caithness Creels. trawler Julie of Ladram. of a small team from PK Composites “I would rather fish singles, and fish As Storm Brendan raged and the Brexit clock ticked led by Patrick Kemp, whose skills in selectively, than use long strings shot down, he took action shots of the crew at work – and building GRP fishing boats began over over a given area; in my opinion, using Skipper Daniel Gilbert during downtime in the galley, recorded their opinions three decades ago at the original firm of singles is a more sustainable way of with his companion Suggs – on issues including the future for fishing outside the EU, Buccaneer Boats and Mouldings (now fishing,” he said. named after the lead singer sustainability and climate change. trading as Buccaneer Boats Ltd). 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His report begins on page 12. 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020 No progress in Brexit fisheries talks, says EU chief Brussels insists on trade and fishing link The UK and EU remain deadlocked We won’t agree to continuing the CFP’ on the UK, and that ‘anything should be between the EU and UK, over fisheries in the Brexit Common Fisheries Policy. in the media that is spun otherwise and how much access and quota negotiations, which have continued “Extending would simply would not be a fair picture of what shares the UK will grant to EU to take place by video link despite prolong negotiations, create even has been presented’. vessels. the Covid-19 crisis, reports Tim more uncertainty, leave us liable to The source told Fishing News: If there was no agreement, they Oliver. pay more to the EU in future, and “The EU mandate is clear on what said there would be ‘no EU fishing The EU has again said that any keep us bound by evolving EU laws the member states want from a in UK waters, unilateral TAC trade deal must include a fisheries at a time when we need to control continued partnership in terms of setting, and no UK access to EU agreement. And, with time running our own affairs. In short, it is not in quota and access, but the UK is not markets – or at least very difficult’. out for a decision by 30 June the UK’s interest to extend.” ready to put figures on the table to A top-level conference is due to on whether or not to extend the A Brussels source close to the reflect what a ‘fairer share’ means.” be held in June to assess progress transition period beyond the end of negotiations said that the EU ‘fully They said that the UK fishing in the negotiations. Michel Barnier 2020, the UK government says it recognises’ that the UK is an industry had already won two warned that before then, there are will not ask for an extension. EU chief negotiator Michel independent coastal state with full battles – sovereign waters and no only two rounds of negotiations Britain’s chief negotiator David Barnier: “The EU will not agree to control of its waters. They said that CFP. What needed to be decided remaining – in the weeks beginning Frost said it would not be in any future economic partnership the EU ‘is not seeking to impose the was what level of co-operation there 11 May and 1 June. the UK’s interests to extend the that does not include a balanced, transition period. sustainable and long-term solution Spelling out the state of play on fisheries.” in the negotiations at a press ‘Vast gap’ between EU and UK conference in Brussels last week, ticking’, said Michel Barnier. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier A UK government spokesperson The NFFO said that the gap “But on fisheries, it would fish in EU waters) where this is said there had been ‘no progress’ on said: “On fisheries, the EU’s between the two sides was ‘vast’ hand the UK what it wants – the mutually beneficial fisheries. mandate appears to require us to and that it was ‘no surprise’ that no freedom to act as an independent • An exclusive 12-mile zone to “On this essential topic, the UK accept a continuance of the current progress has been made. coastal state, with control over protect the UK’s inshore fisheries. has not put forward a legal text,” he quotas agreed under the Common It said there was ‘zero prospect’ access and who fishes in the UK said. Fisheries Policy. We will only be of the UK agreeing to the EU’s EEZ, and in annual fisheries This is ‘pretty close’ to the “We have made no tangible able to make progress here on the negotiating mandate of retaining negotiations,” said Barrie Deas. EU’s current fisheries agreement progress, despite the political basis of the reality that the UK will the status quo on access rights He said that the EU has with Norway, said Barrie Deas. declaration stating that we should have the right to control access to and quota shares, and holding the published a draft legal text that He said it was ‘unlikely’ that make our best endeavours to its waters at the end of this year. UK as closely as possible to the reflects something close to the agreement could be reached in reach an agreement by July. This is “We now need to move forward provisions of the CFP. status quo, which it would like to June, or even later in the year. necessary to provide sufficient clarity in a constructive fashion. The UK “The EU mandate has been use as the basis for negotiations. “At present, the EU for EU and UK fishermen, and also remains committed to a deal with a deliberately designed to give The UK has yet to submit a negotiating mandate does not for all businesses linked to fisheries. free trade agreement at its core.” the Commission no room for legal text, but has made clear that allow for any flexibility, and so it “The EU will not agree to negotiation or compromise. As its objectives are: looks like a no-deal is the most any future economic partnership ‘Unprecedented’ no agreement is possible without likely outcome. On fisheries, the that does not include a balanced, proposals movement from the EU side, a • UK sovereignty to act as an UK will then prepare to enter sustainable and long-term solution The government spokesperson said stalemate is inevitable,” said NFFO independent coastal state, with the cycle of autumn negotiations on fisheries. That should be crystal that the UK would keep talking, chief executive Barrie Deas. regulatory autonomy over the with Norway, the EU and the clear to the UK.” but that some of the EU’s proposals He said that the EU’s ‘nuclear’ fisheries within its EEZ other countries with which it He said that the two parties must were ‘unprecedented’, and did not negotiating option would be to • Co-operation on the shares stocks, in the absence of be realistic about the two ‘very real’ take account of the fact that the UK block a free trade agreement unless management of shared stocks a UK-EU framework fisheries legal deadlines of 30 June – when would be ‘an independent state’. the UK caves in on fisheries – but • Annual fisheries agreements on agreement. the two sides must decide whether David Frost tweeted: “We are this would carry a high risk of a managing shared stocks “This is not ideal, but it is or not to extend the transition ready to work to agree a fisheries no-deal outcome. • Quota shares that more closely better than the alternative – period – and 31 December, the end agreement which reflects our rights This would hurt the UK, but reflect a scientific assessment of agreement to terms that would of the transition period.