Through the Gaps! - Newlyn Fishing News: 01/08/2012 - 01/09/2012 Cornwall UK fish commercial fishing fish cooking and art

Friday 31 August 2012

Margiris sails in to stormy waters off Southern Australia

One of the world's largest trawlers, Margiris filmed here in October 2008 during the biggest 21st Century storm so far in the North Atlantic.....

today, the stormy waters have hardly abated as she tries docking in Port Lincoln, South Australia amid a growing groundswell of opinion against the boat fishing in Ozzie waters - see a comprehensive TV report from ABC Australia here:

RNLI Penlee lifeboat Ivan Ellen out on a shout

Ivan Ellen was launched at 10:58 this morning.

The digital age takes a step closer at Newlyn

Looking a little more like that Indian Summer they have been talking about...

were the megs cheap today...

signs of the digital age reaching Newlyn, one enterprising fish buyer is now using an iPad to record the day's purchases......

more reds....

a good nights work for one of the Cornish sardine boats...

a bevvy of beamers...

familiar name back in port #homesick...

blocks and tackle...

the Jacoba still in the process of putting her beam back together...

all that's left of the Fish Festival...

the gear compound is almost cleared out...

though there's some heavy kit still to go...

one of the most reliable diesel engines going...

the Cathryn captured in oils...

Deb's never misses a trick...

poster print created especially for the fish festival...

with 10% of the £10 price tag going to the Mission...

should be a good night tonigght at the Swordy...

it's Penzance Farmer's market on a Friday at St John's Hall.

#British #Fishcraft Championships in #Cardiff, demos on Friday and Saturday with Competition on Sunday!

#British #Fishcraft Championships in#Cardiff,

Demos on Friday and Saturday with Competition on Sunday!

Newlyn Fish Festival 2012

NEWLYN FISH FESTIVAL 2012

Slideshow images of Newlyn Fish Festival opened by Caroline Quentin

Thursday 30 August 2012

Where's our fish? UK fish dependence day has been and gone!

Seems we ran out of fish from our own waters on the 21st of August in a statistical sense according to nef research:

Overfishing in UK waters means that currently at least one in three fish eaten in UK comes from outside the EU.
Current UK fish stocks can only meet domestic demand for 233 days a year.
Restoring commercial UK fish stocks would meet UK fish demand for the whole year.

The UK continues to consume more fish than its seas produce, but could more than meet annual demand if it allowed stocks to recover, new research from nef(the new economics foundation) and OCEAN2012 has shown.
The 2012 Fish Dependence report shows if the UK were only to consume stock from its own waters, it would run out of fish on August 21^st. The country is reliant on stocks of cod and haddock from overseas, including China.
Though dependent on foreign stock as of tomorrow, the UK does better than many of its European counterparts. The fish dependence days of France, Germany and Italy falling on May 21^st, April 20^th and April 21^st respectively, while EU citizens on average ran out of fish on 7^th July this year.
Restoring fish stocks would allow the UK to be self-sufficient
Overfishing means the UK is getting much less out of its fish stocks than if they were restored and sustainably managed. The report Jobs Lost at Sea published by nef earlier this year estimates the benefits of rebuilding 43 European stocks (out of more than 150) and finds that:

Restoring commercial UK fish stocks to their maximum sustainable yield would increase the additional catch in 467,292 tones, 1.6 times the current fish import deficit.
If directed only to human food consumption, the additional landings from rebuilding UK stocks could provide for the annual consumption of 23 million Brits and would allow the UK to meet the annual fish demand for the whole year.
At current levels of consumption, restoring UK stocks would allow the UK to move from being a net importer to being a net exporter.

Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy needed
Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy is a unique opportunity to bring fish back to UK and EU seas. nef and OCEAN2012 call for immediate action to:

Reduce fishing capacity to bring it in-line with available resources by improving data collection, transparency and reporting; and by prioritising scientific advice in determining catch quotas.
Promote responsible consumption among all EU consumers, and implementing measures that are conducive to more responsible fishing outside EU waters.
Make conservation profitable, by making access to resources conditional on social and environmental criteria.
Use public funds to deliver social and environmental goods by investing in environmentally constructive measures, research, and stakeholder involvement, as well as enforcing sustainable quotas and practices. These aims contrast with the current funding pattern of supporting overcapacity in the fishing fleet through modernising vessels, and failure to control overfishing, for example by allowing access to fisheries stocks.

Rupert Crilly from New Economics Foundation said:

“The UK is an island nation with access to some of the richest and most productive fishing grounds and has moderate levels of fish consumption compared to Spain and Portugal. It could produce as much as it needs but instead it is a net importer of fish.
“Consumers understand that we import tuna which is virtually non-existent in its in waters; but it will wonder why we need to import cod and haddock from China when our cod and haddock stocks could deliver five and three times more catches with better management.”

Ian Campbell, OCEAN2012 co-ordinator for the UK said:

“The next few months are critical to decide the fate of EU fisheries. The UK has been a progressive voice compared in the reform of the EU’s fisheries management but it will need to be much more ambitious and push others in the same direction if it wants to see the end of overfishing in and by the EU.”
“Fishing within sustainable levels and adapting fish consumption to available resources is the only way to regain healthy fishing grounds.”

Article kindly reproduced from http://www.neweconomics.org/press-releases/cod-from-china-for-tomorrow%E2%80%99s-fish-and-chips-uk-fish-dependence-day

UK Fishing Industry and Statistics - 2011

The UK Fishing Industry- UK Sea Fisheries Statistics and its subsidiary publications

Structure and Activity and The UK Fishing Industry: Landings are annual Office for National Statistics publications, adhering to the Code of Practice of Practice for Official Statistics.

The UK Fishing Industry: Landings contains information published in chapter 3 of UK Sea Fisheries Statistics. The publication provides a comprehensive overview of the quantity and value of species landed by UK and foreign vessels into the UK and by UK vessels landing abroad.

It includes breakdowns by:

•vessel nationality
•port and country of landing
•area of capture and fishing gear used
•vessel size and sectoral membership.

The UK Fishing Industry in 2011: Landings was published on 30 August 2012.

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Fish Festival fun shines through the cloud - part I

Setting up in the early hours of the morning for the 2012 Newlyn Fish Festival, Passionate About Fish as ever - the main fish display nears completion.....

Cornish luggers Ripple and Ibis outside the netter Ajax that landed hake after a short trip specially undertaken for the Fish Festival.....

which was filmed by Caroline Quentin's ITV crew for her forthcoming second series on Cornwall which she says will get below the surface of those who live and work there......

with an hour to go before the festival is due to start the skies are heavy with cloud and there is concern that many people will be put off attending......

right on cue, the sun just about shines as the RNMDSF head man assures local Mission skipper, Keith Dickson that the Newlyn mission will remain open as long as the fishing community needs it.....

then it's over to Caroline Quentin standing between festival organiser Mike Collier (L) and RNMDSF chairman David Harris (R) to do the honours and declare the 22nd festival well and truly open......

things to do include a chance to see round the fisheries protection vessel St Piran and meet the IFCA crew or look at one of the port's many beam trawlers, the Sapphire.....

Falmouth fisherman, Chris Bean's niche market for sushi fish meant that his gleaming almost still wriggling display of fish looked like stunning as ever.....

a new look for fish merchants Stevenson's drew in the crowds which were now beginning to pour in.....

Newquay's Headland Hotel chef, Sanjay Kumar makes his way to the demonstration kitchen with young chefs in the making from Newlyn's Tolcarne School to cook his version of Star Gazey pie - despite there being a shortage of mackerel on the day!......