SOUTH WEST UK FISHERMEN BREATH A CONDITIONAL SIGH OF RELIEF

SOUTH WEST UK FISHERMEN BREATH A CONDITIONAL SIGH OF RELIEF.

Bad news on the haddock - with an over abundance and a swingeing 15% quota cut there will be plenty of haddock dumped, dead back at sea in 2013!

Members of the SWFPO and other fishermen in the South West UK, can breath a conditional sigh of relief and enjoy their Christmas break after fisheries minister Richard Benyon secured quite a good deal for them in Brussels.

Chairman of the SWFPO Bill Brock said “I extend thanks from all our members to Richard Benyon and all of his team of negotiators for pulling off significant improvements to a number of crucial quotas compared to the proposals for 2013.

We were expecting deeper cuts but we can now look forward to landing a significant amount more of Plaice and Sole through the coming year, overall this Fisheries Council delivered improvements to next years landings by our members amounting to £750,000 approx at today’s prices.”

Chief Executive Jim Portus said “although our members will struggle to deal with the 5% cut in monk fish quotas it could have been worse and we are already planning transfer deals involving Belgium and Holland.

It is a shame that fishermen will have to discard much of their Haddock catches following the cut of 15%.  This is a species of fish that cannot be avoided due to super abundance on the fishing grounds.  Members of the SWFPO will continue to work with the Fisheries Department to bring about improvements to the Dover Sole Management Plan to allow fishermen to land all that they catch.  Already the South West and Channel Beam Trawler fleet have been recognised for the good work that skippers and fishing gear designers have done to reduce discards and improve fish quality.

The improved opportunities announced today cement the relationship between this innovative work our vessels have been carrying out the ability of our Minister to secure real improvements of fishing opportunities.

Quota changes for 2013

Dover Sole 7e +15% (Western Channel)

Plaice 7DE  + 26%  (English Channel)

Cod 7ek +2%  (Western Channel and Bristol Channel)

Sole 7FG +4%

Whiting +30%

Plaice 7fg No change

Western Hake no change

Western Megrim no change

Channel Sprats no change

Monkfish -5% reduction

Haddock -15% reduction

La route des Saint-Jacques

 

 

C'est une incroyable armada de 80 navires qui part à la recherche d'un trésor reconnu Label Rouge. Les coquillards, ces bateaux de pêche à la coquille Saint-Jacques dans la baie de Seine, au large de Port-en-Bessin, sont sérieusement encadrés pour préserver l'avenir.
Un reportage de Laurence Decherf, Frédéric Faure, Pierre Aziza et Valérie Castel.

 

This is an incredible armada of 80 ships that participated in the search of a treasure recognized Red Label. The Coquillards these boats fishing coquille Saint-Jacques in the Seine Bay, off Port-en-Bessin, are seriously boxes to preserve the future.

A report by Laurence Decherf, Frédéric Faure, Pierre Castel Aziza and Valerie.

The BBC and our industry - are we getting fair coverage?

Fishing NewsInternational

Quoted from Fishing News International's Facebook page, by Cormac Burke: "I was invited to speak on BBC Radio 4 with regard to this week’s EU Commission fisheries negotiations – thank God I declined the invitation as I’m fairly sure I couldn’t have kept my temper as good as Minister Richard Benyon did!

Minister Benyon has my total sympathy as the BBC interviewer gave the well known anti industry protagonist Prof Callum Roberts priority in the debate and then continued to badger the Minister and refuse to let him explain his side of the argument.

This is a huge indication of what the fishing industry is up against in terms of opinion makers such as the BBC and the Sunday Times"

Listen to this 7-minute ‘debate’ on
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9779000/9779023.stm

Koden scanner dome needed

+John Lee Raggy

19 December 20:59

John is looking for a Koden scanner dome model number md3400.

Council of the European Union - Agriculture and Fisheries 3212th Council mtg AGRI & FISHERIES - Legislative deliberations Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 9.30

CAP REFORM - Presidency Progress Report (i) Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy (First reading) (ii) Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common organisation of the market in agricultural products (the Single CMO regulation) (First reading) (iii) Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (First reading) (iv) Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy (the horizontal regulation) (First reading) - Presentation by the Presidency

Tuesday's harbour

Making her last landing for the year, young Jermey Hosking's Nazarene lays to the fish market...

as the sky begins to lighten...

the harbour gets a warm glow from the south...

there's still plenty of work to do on this beamer...

interestingly, Newlyn's latest boat to the join the fleet is still sporting her French name and number...

and she is by far the biggest purpose built netter in the local fleet...

sporting a huge stern...

there's still a few jobs to be finished on the big three beamers from Stevenson's fleet before the boys can finally hang their oilies up for the last time this year...

while aboard the Corin's new boat the paint is being applied during breaks between showers...

one of the green team's admirals, Charlie Downing takes a break...

before a helping hand is offered...

the Cornish Sardine cat, Lyonesse makes her way in...

looks like a new name and numbers for the new blue beamer...

the harbour's tree is looking spruce...

as is the one outside the Mission....

the recent heavy seas have scoured the beach off Newlyn Green to reveal the subsoil in places, its not so long ago that the fields on the Lidden ran down to the beach...

Tom is still keeping an eye on things...

pretty as a picture and calm enough with a gale forecast for the night sure to curtail the year's fishing for the fleet.

RIP - Penlee lifeboat crew - 19th December 1981

The Newlyn trawler Fern and the St Mary's lifeboat search in vain for survivors in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The Penlee lifeboat had been called out to the coaster Union Star which was unable to use her main engine. She later founded on rocks near Tater Dhu. The Penlee lifeboat was dashed to pieces by the force of the storm.

The crews of both vessels were lost and some bodies were never recovered.

Many of the Penlee crew had been socialising in the British Legion club when the alarm was raised.

Only one volunteer per family was chosen because the weather was so treacherous.

Reports suggest the Solomon Browne crew kept moving alongside the Union Star, at least twice it was thrown on the coaster's deck, and on another occasion slammed into its side.

But it appeared to move away under control and its last message confirmed four people had been rescued.

A helicopter crew saw Solomon Browne, only 50 yards off shore, apparently turn back perhaps in another rescue bid.

There was no further radio contact with the lifeboat and her lights disappeared 10 minutes later.

Posthumous awards of gallantry were made to the coxswain, crew and station and the Queen sent a message of sympathy to the bereaved families. 

Courtesy of the BBC.