The trawler Lorient Father Milo just sunk after collision with a Turkish freighter Lady Ozge, around 14 pm, 20 nautical miles (30 km) west of Belle-Ile (Morbihan). One of two fishermen was recovered by the tanker of 120m, carrying vegetable oil, but the second is missing. Significant research resources have been deployed in this sector of the Atlantic ocean to find the missing: the helicopter Dragon 56 of the Safety Car, the EC 225 helicopter of the Navy, with divers on board, the SNSM star of Belle-Ile and six fishing vessels. The circumstances of the collision are not yet known.
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Monday 9 April 2012
French trawler lost off Lorient.
The trawler Lorient Father Milo just sunk after collision with a Turkish freighter Lady Ozge, around 14 pm, 20 nautical miles (30 km) west of Belle-Ile (Morbihan). One of two fishermen was recovered by the tanker of 120m, carrying vegetable oil, but the second is missing. Significant research resources have been deployed in this sector of the Atlantic ocean to find the missing: the helicopter Dragon 56 of the Safety Car, the EC 225 helicopter of the Navy, with divers on board, the SNSM star of Belle-Ile and six fishing vessels. The circumstances of the collision are not yet known.
Down-time reading
Diverse panels and presentations addressed the sources and effects of external impacts on fishing people and their communities. Papers for further investigation might include the following: p30, p42, p43, p48 and p85.
Sunday 8 April 2012
Imogen III at sea
Two day's work traced as Roger aboard the Imogen III tows his trawl in none too fine weather - his fish should make good money on Tuesday's market - even though there will also be plenty of fish from a number of bigger trawlers likely to be blown in by the coming gales landing as well.
Buying hake with confidence
When customers buy their hake from a fish shop that buys from Newlyn or Brixham fish markets they can be confident that the fish they have on their plates has come up from the Ajax's fishroom.
North Atlantic hake, Merluccius merluccius, is the hake of preference for the people of Spain and can be enjoyed here in the UK. Ask the fishmonger where his hake has come from - if he's worth his salt the chances are he'll be able to tell you which fishing port at the very least. These days more and more fishmongers can quote the source of their fish down to particular boats - easy in the case of the Newlyn netter, Ajax.
Leaflets like these are available for display alongside the Ajax's fish by fishmongers on their counters. Investigation in Spain on provenance of North Atlantic Hake. |
In Spain however, it seems things might be different - with the unknowing Spanish customer being duped into buying hake that just ain't what they appear to be!
Saturday 7 April 2012
Ajax AH32 lands hake for the Easter market
With a total of nine days planned for the trip, the Ajax makes her second landing of hake and other white fish in Newlyn. The first 100 boxes of hake are destined for the fish auction at Brixham and are loaded on to waiting transport. The rest of the fish is stored in the fish market holding fridge in Newlyn ready for market staff to sort, grade, weigh and tally in the morning. The week days only fish auction starts at 6am.
Friday 6 April 2012
Gearing up for summer
Scallops ahoy! The Jacoba, one of the Uk's biggest scallopers working 27 dredges a side gears up for the new season......
a little head scratching on the deck of the Billy Rowney, recently featured in programme four of Monty Hall's Fishermen's Apprentice, faced with two huge sets of gear to repair there's afew hours work ahead.......
at this time of year there's plenty of visitors down on holiday and fascinated by the scale of the fishing gear being worked by these big trawlers.
a little head scratching on the deck of the Billy Rowney, recently featured in programme four of Monty Hall's Fishermen's Apprentice, faced with two huge sets of gear to repair there's afew hours work ahead.......
at this time of year there's plenty of visitors down on holiday and fascinated by the scale of the fishing gear being worked by these big trawlers.
Let them eat hake!
Goujons of Hake aka Cornish Fish Fingers - well, that's what the visiting kids were told they would be having for supper. |
The week before Easter is a high spot on the fishing calendar. Traditionally, Good Friday is a day of huge fish consumption in much of the Western world, especially those with significant Catholic populations.
Having done some research TtG has found as many reasons for the consumption of fish on Good Friday as there are species of fish landed on Newlyn market on an average day - loads. Most seem to centre around the need for some form of penance in the shape of abstinence or fasting - though those two are not the same nor mutually exclusive. Others include historical references that cite the high cost of red meat being prohibitive for many, making fish a viable alternative, to more religious ones on the grounds that preparing meat involves the letting of blood á la JC on the cross.
This fish-eating Good Friday thing is also a well known phenomenon across La Manche where the missus of Louis XIII (Marie Antionette, though it may have been Marie-Thérèse the missus of Louis XIV) actually said 'hake' not 'cake' and is oft mis-quoted.
Be it penance or pleasure, the eating fish is also permissible and indeed to be encouraged on every day of the year.
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