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Tuesday 15 October 2013
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Fishing licence for sale - 3.5 tonnes and 14Kw
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Ivo Vegter talks about Environmental exaggeration and excessive risk avoidance: And how just how harmful it all is!
Much needed assessment of the potential damage caused by over simlified sensationalised messages put out ti the piublic bt NGOs promulgating their often misguided and misplaced sense of wrong in the world - read on.......
The messaging is important. It provides some contrast to what is often taken to be objective truth in the Mass Media. Read on........
- MSG is not unhealthy
- Nuclear Power is the safest method of energy production there is
- Fracking is not as bad as the media/NGOs would have us believe
- Gas is efficient
- NGOs market just as much as Industries
“Ivo Vegter is a columnist and author of Extreme Environment, in which he warns about environmental exaggeration and how it harms emerging economies. Taking excessive risks may be dangerous, but so is excessive risk avoidance. Using several startling or amusing examples, he’ll make a strong case for why facts and reason must trump emotion and exaggeration.”
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Three generations of smokers not about to give up!
SMOKED haddock, the Dock Tower and the Pontoon Stand are among the icons of Grimsby starring in a new national TV advert. Supermarket giant Tesco has chosen the town for its latest advert which promotes its Tesco Finest range.
The 30-second film features footage of haddock being cured in one of the town's smokehouses, Grimsby Town fans cheering their side on at Blundell Park and a view across Grimsby Docks at dusk – set to the sound of chanting from the Pontoon. It also shows customers in a cafe tucking into the fish, which is prepared for Tesco at Seachill's smokehouse, Russells, in Riby Street.
The new advert has been praised by both the town's MP and mayor and has delighted those connected with Grimsby's seafood industry and its football club.
Great Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell said: "I think it's brilliant. It tells the world what we already know – that Grimsby is best for fish. It makes me feel so hungry I want to have some smoked haddock right now!" Mayor of North East Lincolnshire, Councillor Peggy Elliott, said: "I think it's great. It shows the traditions of smoking fish being passed down the generations and the crowd yelling at the football. My husband Steve thought he could hear himself in the crowd. It is very atmospheric and it shows Grimsby in a positive light."
Steve Norton, chief executive of the Grimsby Fish Merchant's Association, which is spearheading the Traditionally Smoked Fish project, said: "To have someone like Tesco behind it clearly demonstrates that it's a good product, and it's something that the public are interested in. Hopefully it will heighten the awareness of traditional smoked fish, which is what we have been trying to do with this project. The advert talks about the tradition and the technique. It's only a brief clip, but it does capture the essence of the natural method of curing. Anything that's going to be a positive message for our industry or a niche part of it has got to be good news." John Fenty, Grimsby Town FC director and former owner of Five Star Fish, said: "Having been lucky enough to earn my living from the fish industry it's great to see Grimsby and the club again on national adverts like this. The last I recall was Young's on national TV when they really flew the flag for Grimsby.
"In this case, the club is well and truly embedded in the video, which highlights Harry the Haddock, the Pontoon and in the background the singing faithful in full voice, all topped off by pictures of the iconic Dock Tower. "The advertisement represents the best fish in the world in my opinion – haddock bearing the infamous finger and thumb prints where Jesus plucked one from the sea to feed the many, and Grimsby is still doing the same today."
The advert has particular resonance for Mariners' fan Robert Smith, as it features the "Fish!" chant he is credited with initiating at an away game at Rotherham almost 14 years ago. He said: "I thought it was quite inspiring. It has all the Grimsby icons. It's nice they are focusing on some of the positive aspects. People from outside the area don't realise what a pleasant place Grimsby is. "I won't be retiring from the day job. I do shop in Tesco so some extra club card points would have been nice!"
Story courtesy of ThisisGrimsby.
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Monday 14 October 2013
It's MM!
Plenty of big white fish from the Ajax as she ekes out her hake quota for the rest of the year...
together with the Govenek of Ladram they fill the western end of the market this Monday morning...
the biggest fish of the trip at 6.5Kg or one stone in old money (that's 14lbs) fish this size would make sometimes make over £120 per stone at Christmas - a hake would be the centrepiece of an affluent family's Christmas Dinner table...
the reds are bright and cheerful this morning, shining examples from the Lisa Jacquelineas ever...
there's a few squid around even for the beamers...
and a good run of mackerel for the handline boats...
the inshore trawler keeps dumped gear out of the prop this week and touches on a few squids!
Sunday 13 October 2013
Team in Fleetwood nets winning solution to issue of discarded fish
Fleetwood has played a key role in novel new trawl designs proven to radically reduce the amount of fish thrown back into the sea and wasted.
The work carried out involves a leading scientist, a respected trawl net manufacturer and a fisherman –ball from Fleetwood.
And it could have a massive and positive impact on the fishing industry in Britain, especially as a looming ban on discarded fish in 2015 could cause more problems for Britain’s fishermen, and impose more expensive ways of disposing of unwanted fish.
Tests have now been completed and the results have proved hugely encouraging.
The work was carried out by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) after fishermen and prawners in Fleetwood and Whitehaven wanted to look at ways of reducing catches of unwanted fish – specimens too young and small for the food industry – without affecting their good catches .
CEFAS set to work on the North West Discards project, with funding from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and other backers, and the scheme saw fishermen working with scientists.
Fleetwood man Shaun Doran, lead CEFAS scientist for Northern Britain, led the innovative design of the trawls which radically reduced discards.
Boris Nets in Fleetwood manufactured the new nets for the trials.
And Fleetwood skipper Gary Mitchinson, who owns the vessel Albion, was among the fishermen involved in trialling the new trawls.
Shaun, who comes from a fishing background, said; “We trialled the new designs, then made detailed assessments.
“What it means is that we can transform the way fishermen can work. “The design doesn’t affect the amount of prawn, or sole or skate, they catch in any way. “But it does stop a large amount of the discards.”
After early trials using designs created with several skippers, the project was whittled down to three designs which performed the best, with Shaun’s “floating bridal” design being the most effective.
“By not scraping along the seafloor, the design reduced the herding effect of small fish and avoided them being scooped into fishing nets.
Environment Minister Richard Benyon has now made a commitment to introduce selective trawls into prawn fisheries, proving the evidence gained from the scheme can result in wider policy.
Full story courtesy of Fleetwood Today
The work carried out involves a leading scientist, a respected trawl net manufacturer and a fisherman –ball from Fleetwood.
And it could have a massive and positive impact on the fishing industry in Britain, especially as a looming ban on discarded fish in 2015 could cause more problems for Britain’s fishermen, and impose more expensive ways of disposing of unwanted fish.
Tests have now been completed and the results have proved hugely encouraging.
The work was carried out by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) after fishermen and prawners in Fleetwood and Whitehaven wanted to look at ways of reducing catches of unwanted fish – specimens too young and small for the food industry – without affecting their good catches .
CEFAS set to work on the North West Discards project, with funding from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and other backers, and the scheme saw fishermen working with scientists.
Fleetwood man Shaun Doran, lead CEFAS scientist for Northern Britain, led the innovative design of the trawls which radically reduced discards.
Boris Nets in Fleetwood manufactured the new nets for the trials.
And Fleetwood skipper Gary Mitchinson, who owns the vessel Albion, was among the fishermen involved in trialling the new trawls.
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Gary Mitchinson (right) and David Wright on trawler Albion at Fleetwood Docks Photo courtesy of Fleetwood Weelky News |
Shaun, who comes from a fishing background, said; “We trialled the new designs, then made detailed assessments.
“What it means is that we can transform the way fishermen can work. “The design doesn’t affect the amount of prawn, or sole or skate, they catch in any way. “But it does stop a large amount of the discards.”
After early trials using designs created with several skippers, the project was whittled down to three designs which performed the best, with Shaun’s “floating bridal” design being the most effective.
“By not scraping along the seafloor, the design reduced the herding effect of small fish and avoided them being scooped into fishing nets.
Environment Minister Richard Benyon has now made a commitment to introduce selective trawls into prawn fisheries, proving the evidence gained from the scheme can result in wider policy.
Full story courtesy of Fleetwood Today
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