Codling fillets - East meets West.

Big slices of pepper to be grilled......

pak choi and leek.........

those little ice cream tubs that seemed the ideal size for freezing meal sized portions of home made fish stock.........

that take a few minutes to melt.......

a few finely chopped then softened onion added to the stock......

along with the pak choi and mushroom.......

a few juicy small codling fillets.........

which go well under the thickened stock sauce - the ideal autumnal evening nosh.

6th World Fisheries Congress in Edinburgh 2012.

Your chance to attend an important conference in Edinburgh.

"The World Council of Fisheries Societies is a non-profit, nongovernmental organisation that currently includes 12 scientific and professional fisheries societies and affiliated organisations world wide. The main aim of the Council is to promote international cooperation in fisheries science, conservation and management by encouraging and promoting sustainable management practices, excellence in fisheries research and the wise use of fishery resources. One important way in which the Council seeks to achieve these ends is through the organisation of a major World Fisheries Congress every 4 years. The Congress has hosted 5 highly successful meetings, the most recent being the 5th in Yokohama in 2008. For 2012, the 6th Congress moves to Europe, where it will be held in Edinburgh, the beautiful capital of Scotland, hosted by the Fisheries Society of the British Isles. The International Programme Committee have put together a really interesting programme. On behalf of the World Fisheries Congress and the Fisheries Society of the British Isles, I extend a cordial welcome to delegates. Kind Regards, Felicity Huntingford, WFC 2012 Congress President."

The Congress addresses the important topic of  ‘Sustainable Fisheries in a Changing World’. The International Programme 
Committee has identified four key themes through which this topic will be addressed: 

• Sustainable fisheries under a changing climate regime
• Adaptive management and tools to cope with changing environments 
• The social and economic cost of failure and the route to success 
• Meeting

The committee has assembled an impressive group of Plenary speakers to spearhead these themes, which will be addressed through a mixed programme of lectures, symposia, workshops and discussions (see page 6). The programme is designed to meet the concerns and interests of the fisheries industry (catchers, processors and retailers), as well as of fisheries managers and 
academics and we expect a high level of participation from all these groups. We extend an especially warm welcome to students and early career scientist.


Felicity Huntingford
World Fisheries Congress 2012 President
President WCFS and FSB

Congrex UK Ltd
FSBI Conference Ltd
4B, 50 Speirs Wharf
Port Dundas
Glasgow
G4 9TH, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 141 331 0123
Fax: +44 (0) 141 331 0234
Email: info@6thwfc2012.com

increasing food and nutrition needs through cultivation

Ivan Ellen takes over the tow from the Lizard lifeboat Sarah.

Cox Patch Harvey amd the boys aboard the Penlee Lifeboat, Ivan Ellen were also out on a Saturday night shout when they went to assist with the rescue of the gill netter, Sparkling Line after she suffered engine failure off the Lizard. First on the scene was the Lizard boat, Rose - out on her first proper 'shout'. The Ivan Ellen picked up the tow from the Rose at 0200 on Sunday morning as a worsening forecast would have prevented her from getting safely on the slipway for retrieval at her home lifeboat station in Kilcobben Cove.

The stunning interior of the new Lizard lifeboat house ©Geoff Sqibb.

Over the past 18 months local photographer Geoff Squibb has photographed the rebuilding of the station, taking approximately 6500 photographs to date, evidencing every inch of the construction project in all winds and weather. For a month by month detailed view of the rebuild take a look at the photographs below.


You can contact Geoff  Squibb on Geoff@cornishpixels.co.uk

Sponsorship opportunities for International Biology Conference of Fish.

Click HERE for further information and levels of sponsorship.

Wisconsin is honoured to host the 10th International Congress on the Biology of Fish, the world’s premier meeting for fish physiologists, organised by the Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society.

We seek your financial support for this dynamic international event. The congress has a range of symposia covering a wide area of topics related to fish physiology, including cell culture tools; physiological impact of parasites; using fish as indicators of climate change, environmental stress and pollution; ionic regulation; olfaction; food intake and migratory behaviour.


Exhibitors will have intimate exposure to key users of aquarium facilities, field equipment and tracking devices as well as specialised physiological and molecular laboratory equipment.


We have a wide variety of sponsorship options available. Please review the sponsorship levels and complete the sponsorship form at the link above.
On behalf of the Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society, I thank you for your support and look forward to hearing from you.

D Mark GJ Hartl
President Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society

Plenty of boats in port tonight.

Aboard the Chichester Lass - pilchaaaarrrd fishing!

SCIENCE IN FISHING

(in the 1960s that is)

Video extract courtesy of British Pathé Films.

1st tier is 'Chichester Lass' Bobby Jewell, 'Girl Renee' John Stevens 'Lamorna'  Willie Care 'Godwit' 'Renovelle' Jimmy Madron 'Mayflower' Dickie Worth

There's plenty of fishermen who will remember the skipper seen in the film above - Bobby Jewell's last boat was called the New Dawn sold to the Isle of Man after he retired.

Storyboard details from the British Pathé web site:

"Newlyn, Cornwall. L/S of Newlyn harbour with lots of fishing boats. L/S of a trawler with the harbour in the background. A shot from the deck of a trawler of the sea and other boats with the coastline in the background. There is a man on deck working in the foreground. L/S of a lighthouse, a boat and the harbour become visible as the boat with the camera on sails away. C/U of the skipper, Bobby Jewell, looking out of the window of the cabin on 'The Chichester Lass'. C/U of the boat cutting through the water. M/S of a machine inside the cabin, it is a box on the wall with a gauge and a pointer which spins round. The results are printed out at the bottom. The machine is a radar echo sounder to locate the pilchards and the crew is experimenting with the device. C/U of the machine........"

Read the rest of the storyboard on the British Pathé site here:

UK secures important breakthrough on management of fish stocks.

The European Commission today agreed that fishing quotas will not be subject to an automatic cut by the EU if data about individual stocks is insufficient. Addressing the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Luxembourg today, Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki said that she had dropped plans to impose an automatic cut of 25 per cent if data was not considered to be reliable.

She added that the quota would not automatically default to the previous year’s quota and would instead be decided on a case by case basis. Speaking from Luxembourg, UK Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon said: “I spoke to Commissioner Damanaki before the council meeting this morning and I’m pleased to see some realism in the decisions being made here. Just because the data on a stock doesn’t give the full picture, that doesn’t mean slashing the amount which you’re allowed to catch by a quarter is the right response. “The UK fully supports the Commission’s ambitions to ensure that fish stocks are sustainable in the long term. But we can’t support proposals which have no basis in science and could risk increasing discards from otherwise healthy stocks.”

Richard Benyon is representing the interests of all UK fishermen at the Council meeting in Luxembourg today, where issues being discussed include the annual negotiations with Norway to manage Total Allowable Catch in the North Sea.