Passionate About Fish? then go to the The Fish Shop in Camberley!

Day one arrives and the doors are finally open for the people of Camberley and their shiny brand new fish shop! 

The residents of this Surrey village don't know how lucky they are to have such a jewel in the fishmonger's crown among them. 

Cornish fishermen and all those who have been to the Newlyn Fish Festival will be jealous - they only get to see the fantastic work of Duncan and Sue Lewis on Fish festival day when the pair, best known as Passionate About Fish, create the centerpiece display at Newlyn's annual celebration of all things fishy.

Paving the way for the discard ban: Members of the Fisheries committee approve urgent rules

Urgently needed rules to adapt seven EU laws in order to make the new Common Fishery Policy's discard ban, or "landing obligation", work from 2015 were approved by Members of the Fisheries committee on Wednesday. The MEPs have deleted provisions not strictly relating to 2015 and softened administrative requirements for fishermen. They have also delayed the introduction of sanctions for violation of the discard ban so that fishermen can adapt more easily.

"Implementation of the discard ban is gradual, from 2015 until 2019. This regulation should only be concerned with the urgent issue of implementing the landing obligation for the fisheries concerned in 2015. I have thus proposed that the provisions relating to the other fisheries be deleted. Next year will be a test year for assessing the effects of implementing the discard ban", said Alain Cadec, rapporteur for the landing obligation regulation, and Chair of the Fisheries Committee, whose report was adopted with 20 votes against 4 and 1 abstention.

Giving fishermen a chance to adapt

MEPs have introduced a delay of two years before the introduction of a system with penalty points for infringements to the discard ban.

"The discard ban constitutes a major change for fisheries. In order to ensure its successful implementation, fisheries operators should be allowed sufficient flexibility to ensure that this can be done on a gradual basis", Mr Cadec added.

Furthermore, the obligation to keep a fishing logbook to record all quantities of each species caught and kept on board was softened by the MEPs, limiting it to catches above 50 kg of live-weight equivalent. They also deleted the requirement for fishermen to separate out undersized catches in different boxes. Other changes to the original Commission proposal include the introduction of a mechanism to prevent the development of a parallel market for non-marketable catch.

A "quick fix" pending a comprehensive overhaul of technical measures

The rules for the discard ban (Article 15 of the new Common Fisheries Policy law) conflict with several EU regulations currently in force. Under the latter, fishermen have to discard any non-marketable catch. This situation is thus at odds with the discard ban, which comes into force on 1st January 2015, and must therefore be remedied. Hence the proposal on the "Landing Obligation", pending a new framework for technical measures. This framework should be tabled by the Commission in 2015 as part of the reform and, over time, facilitate the full implementation of the discard ban as envisaged.

Next steps

Interinstitutional negotiations will start very soon, aiming to find a compromise on the negotiation's text which then has to be submitted to a first reading vote in plenary.

Background

The discard ban, or landing obligation, is one of the central objectives of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy, adopted by the European Parliament in December 2013. Discards are fish thrown back into the sea, usually because they are of an unwanted species or size. They account for almost a quarter of total EU catches. Most of the discarded species die, thus making it a wasteful practice.

Passionate About Fish! open their doors today! #eatmorefish

Duncan and Sue Lucas, known throughout the land as Passionate About Fish open the doors to their brand new wet fish shop just outside London. 


The Camberley shop on Frimley Road is a traditional walk-in open-fronted wet fish shop loaded with the best fish available - and there will be plenty of Cornish fish bedded in ice on the counter for sure!

A fresh supply of Ajax hake should be winging its way to them as soon as she lands later this week!

Follow the the shop for the latest fish stock news here @Passion4Fish

Wednesday's supply of quality Newlyn fish

Yet another piece of Newlyn history is consigned ignominiously on the back of a low-loader to the scrapheap...

in the market it's all eyes down for a full house...

the Lisa has managed to deprive Mr Nowell of yet more JDs...

tales of an incongruous conger curled in a box...

best bass bound away...

as the buyers huddle over the next sale...

which fish is this the tail end of?...

down the line at the end of the grader...

the market floor is running in black gold again.

Newlyn copperworks up with the best

Image courtesy of the Cornishman

The development at the elite school that taught David Cameron and many other of society’s biggest names will be crowned by the elaborate feature – known as an acroterion. The quarter ton roof ornament, which has taken eight months to make, will sit atop a gable outside the 300-seat hall at the prestigious £34,000-per-year school.

For those of us who have no chance of ever reaching such dizzy heights, it will be pleasing to know that the crowning glory of the new Eton will be stamped Made In Cornwall. The elaborate feature, known as an acroterion, has been made by Michael Johnson and Shelley Anderson at Newlyn Copper Works and is said to be the most complex example of copperwork made 'in a generation'. The pair now have the challenging task of installing the six feet wide sculpture outside the school's new lecture hall.

Mr Johnson said: “It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most complex and intricate pieces of hand-crafted architectural copper-work made in this country in a generation.” Michael and Shelley were commissioned to make the roof decoration by architects Bekynton Field who are working on Eton's new quadrangle, or “quad”, development.

The £19m project - overseen by architect John Simpson, designer of the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace - includes 40 new classrooms for modern languages, economics and politics, as well as the lecture theatre and exhibition space. It is the latest addition to the sprawling site in Windsor, Berkshire, known for the Gothic-style college chapel that was part of the original design when it was founded in 1441. So it is nice there will be a (not so) little piece of Cornish engineering there, too, after Newlyn Copper Works were commissioned by Simpsons.

Michael Johnson said: “They had searched the whole of the UK to find someone capable of producing something like this – and they initially drew a blank and went to France. “The sort of thing we have made for Eton stopped happening in Britain after the Second World War. Intricate hand-crafted copper-work doesn’t really get done in this country any more... well it didn’t until we started on the acroterion.”

Image courtesy of the Cornishman

The duo have had to think about how the huge piece would expand and contract in the heat and also drain properly, and how to fix it to the roof.

Michael said: 'With something as complex as this you have to design it with close consideration to how it will function. And all the planning has to be done before a single hammer is swung.”

Acroterions are a hallmark of Britain's grandest buildings and can include discs, tripods and ornate Gothic statues. The names comes from the Greek words for extremity and endmost. Although the pair would not say how much they are being paid, they told The Western Morning News a project like this would cost between £50,000 and £70,000 to commission.

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Dunkirk fishermen block the Grand off the port for maintenance of quotas in 2015

Apologies in advance for some of Google's translation.

manifestation des pêcheurs à Nantes by OuestFranceFR

While fishing events take place in La Rochelle and Nantes, where the sea Audience economy just opened, the movement was relayed in Dunkirk.

While hundreds of fishermen and dozens of ships, demonstrated on Tuesday in Nantes and La Rochelle to demand the maintenance identically in 2015 fishing quotas, the first day of the Sea Economic Assizes open to Nantes Manuel Valls. 100% of Dunkirk netters (there are 17) blocked the port of Dunkerque Grand large at 14:00 on Tuesday 2nd December. They are protesting against the likely drop quotas. Including sole about which scientists are asking a decrease of 60% fishing quotas. For some skippers who bring docked 85% of sole, the fall in revenue could be 50% . Fishermen are worried and disappointed that the law changes too often. They also dispute that some ships are subject to the Directive "zero discharge" that will require, from 1 January 2015, make any discarding the water, but to store them, bring them back to the port and unload. " more handling, more storage space and more charges " they argue accordingly. A symbolic Grand blocking off the port of Dunkirk was held so from 14:00 this afternoon. A Calais also this morning, and cost-reimbursable fish sales took place in Lille, Republic Square today.

Foghorns, leaflets and flares

In Nantes shortly after 10:30, fishermen have welcomed the Quai de la Fosse, near the center of Nantes, ships that docked by ringing of foghorns . They distributed to passers leaflets to raise awareness of their cause and lit flares . Several ships carrying banners such as "Europe is killing us, let us work" or "quotas Drop, drop in sales " . The protesters also hung a large banner proclaiming "Stop the quota down" on the Anne de Bretagne bridge, near where the fishing boats are moored. "What matters to us is the definition quotas, and these quotas are maintained in 2015 " , explained José Jouneau, the chairman of the regional committee of fisheries. Fishermen want "the quota approach is not just fishing and scientific, but social and economic , because that it is not a company that could define his future at six, seven or eight months as is currently the case, " he added.

"Hollande = pollution, Marine = solution" 

Fishermen suggest that changes in quotas be spread over the next five years and a progress point to define this spread be organized in 2015. "Today is a day of awareness for (show) that there is a small-scale fishing in the Pays de la Loire, that we are an integral part of the development of the region " , stressed Mr. Jouneau. A delegation of fishermen were to be received at the Loire-Atlantique prefecture in mid-day with an advisor to the Secretary of State for Transport, Sea and Fisheries, Alain Vidal. At Rochelle , for the same reasons, a fifty boats fishing from all ports of the Charente-Maritime gathered late morning in the Old Port of the city, completely blocked and deafened by the sound of foghorns. Others continued to arrive and organizers waited in the afternoon a hundred in all, or the . 'entire fleet department On ships among the banners read: "Europe makes us die" , "Enough of this Europe that kills fish" but also: "Hollande = pollution, Marine solution = " . When asked about the meaning of this slogan, the fishermen have confirmed that the Marine in question was indeed "Marine Le Pen ".

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Final Report: The English Discard Ban Trial