Fisheries Science Partnership: proposal ideas sought from any and all fishermen.

Here's a chance for ANY fishermen to have their ideas or thoughts for a fishing related project turned into reality by CEFAS - speak to the guys in Newlyn to find out more - remember, it is the industry that gives organisations like CEFAS their reason for existing - and their work will be all the more credible if it is seen to be driven by the industry it represents.

The Fisheries Science Partnership (FSP) is a long-standing Defra initiative to encourage fishermen and scientists to work together to solve problems and provide more robust scientific data.
Since 2003, when the FSP programme was first funded, over 75 industry-inspired projects have been carried out. Reports of these projects can be found in the Publications section of this site.

Ideas for proposals are now invited from fishermen for projects to be undertaken in the 2011/12 financial year, subject to funding being available. The continuation of the FSP programme is dependant upon the outcome of the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review, so proposals are prepared at the proposer's risk. At this stage, there is no guarantee of funding after March 2011.

Potential applicants should be aware that the objectives of the FSP are to:

1.provide information from commercial fishing catches on key stocks to supplement data sources traditionally used in ICES assessments

2.investigate concerns raised by fishermen on scientific assessments or on stocks not currently assessed

3.investigate innovative scientific methods and/or more selective/environmentally friendly fishing methods

4.support the work of Regional Advisory Councils.

Thus, to be eligible, projects must meet one of these objectives, plus be practical and able to deliver a real solution.

Turning an idea into a scientifically deliverable project is not always easy, so proposers may wish to ask their local Marine Management Organisation office for help. Alternatively, the Cefas FSP Contract Office can refer applicants to a scientist who can provide advice.

In addition, a simple form has been designed to help proposers to devise a suitable project. The form (in Word format, 64KB) prompts the essential required details.


It is available on this website, or from the FSP Contracts Office, Cefas, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 0HT (Tel: +44 (0)1502 527706 / Email: fsp@cefas.co.uk).

Ideas for proposals for projects must be delivered to the FSP Contract Office by 21 January 2011.

Falmouth Marine Sciences do the tour.

 More evidence revealed of the railway track that ran from the serpentine mine at Wherry Town is exposed after the recent heavy ground sea has further stripped the pebble beach alongside Newlyn Green.....

 Tom looks out over a stunning sunrise in the Bay.......

 the weather yesterday did not deter those attending the annual memorial service in Newlyn, there are only fourteen villages in England that have no need of a memorial to commemorate the dea from World War I and II........

 getting mobbed, a cormorant is harrassed aftyer returning to the surface with a fish in his beak......

 fourteen bins of herring complement a similar number of Cornsih Sardines for the Lyonesses' weekend's work........

lookout crabs!, Mario and the boys set sail.......

  few hundred kilos of selected stunning quality sardines.........

 from the Lyonesse made good money on a fish starved market this morning........

and there to witness early market proceedings were the current cohort of Marine Science students from Falmouth - in contrast to France and other European states with significant marine trades, this kind of course would attract many students drawn from their coastal regions - more needs to be done in the UK to promote and encourage youngsters to become skilled 'artisnal' workers (like fishermen) as a worthwile occupation with real career prospects - rather than use the job in itself as a threat for not doing well at school.

CEFAS (See next post)

Say cheese!

Newlyn Cheese and Charcuterie are now open for business........

and its not long before discerning customers part with their hard earned cash for fine cheese and meats wrapped in discrete brown paper bags.......

local cheeses include a feisty Helford Blue from the Treveador Farm Dairy out on the Lizard........

and the 'Stinking Bishop', which took a starring role in the Wallace & Gromit movie, so named after the variety of pear perry used to wash the curds during the making process - and officially Britain's smelliest cheese.

Fryderyk Chopin - off come the wrecked masts in Falmouth Number 2 Dry Dock.

Statek transportowy wyladowuje pozostalosci masztów i rei.

Ściąganie ulamanej części fokmasztu.

A couple of videos shot in No 2 Dry Dock, Falmouth as the damaged masts and rigging is lifted ashore.

Newlyn Art Fest.

Heavy seas have ripped huge quantities of seaweed from the rocks......

though this week the Wherry Town river has carved a channel through the pebbles......

the local cormorants take the time to air their wings.......

as the weather moderates the fleet begin to make their way back out to sea.......

and Newlyn Art Festival gets under way.......

it's that time again......

high water and the Emma gets the thumbs up to come off the hard.......

another main engine gets fired up ready for the off.......

and the crabbers head out to sea......

Cap'n Ellsworth has additional crew sailing with him this trip.......

a team from Channel 4 filming for the fish dish episode of the Great British Banquet, though with the forecast looking pretty fickle lets hope these guys are all good sailors and get the filming in before the weather changes or there won't be much footage shot.......

one of the smarter members of the film crew has his feet firmly planted ashore - sensible chap!.........

looks like Perry lost the, "Who's going to grease the blocks on the end of the derrick" bet this week......

towing duties over, the Nova Spero takes on ice for her next trip.......

keep the berth clear chaps........

looks like the Emma is competing with Mario to have the youngest crew in the port.

Aya aye cap'n! - Johanna Kwedhi, Namibia's first female trawler captain.

Johanna is Namibia's first female trawler captain. She trained with the Namibian Maritime Fisheries Institute and became skipper after eight years service as an officer and chief mate. Now in command of a crew of 23, she finds that men are not used to a woman at the wheel. Namibia signed up to the Millennium Development Goals that aim to cut poverty by half in 2015. These goals include specific targets for women - on education, reproductive health and equality. Johanna is an example of targets fulfilled -- but back home, how about her friends and relatives?

‘Trawler Girl’, the latest in the ‘Life on the Edge’ film series looks at Namibia’s progress on meeting its MDGs promises to women - through the eyes of the country’s first female trawler captain.

Slight, pretty, sharp-eyed, and determined, Johanna Kwedhi is in charge of a crew of 23 fishermen. Out at sea, she runs the show. But it’s not so long since Johanna was living in a shantytown on the outskirts of the Namibian port city Luderitz, with no running water - a girl from the villages who used to walk 14 kilometres every day to school.

For ‘Trawler Girl’, the programme took Johanna and her 14-month old son Innocent on a 1,500 kilometre trip back home to the north of the country to find out what the prospects for women are here today. Are other girls now seizing the chances Johanna once took to break with tradition and forge their own careers? What’s happening to Namibia’s MDG promises to cut maternal mortality and empower women? And what does this mean for Namibia’s boys?

Trawler Girl was a film made by tve - tve works with partners worldwide to make films which inspire change.
 
COMMENTARY transcript from the video:


We’re close to Namibia’s Skeleton Coast. We’re at the edge of the Namib Desert, on Africa’s south west coast. A world of drought, danger, shipwreck. But also… fish!

Luderitz Harbour – an old port rebuilt for fishing boats. The industry is one of the pillars of Namibia’s economy. It’s a man’s world. Almost eight out of ten fishery workers are men. Women allowed on these great Atlantic trawlers normally only as visitors - maybe taking a turn at the wheel. Johanna Kwedhi is going aboard the Kanus, one of the fleet’s largest vessels. Except, Johanna is not coming on board as a guest… Johanna is Namibia’s first female trawler skipper.

JOHANNA:

As Captain, I normally work on standby for 24 hours. I wake up at about six o’clock. We are having six hours shifts. At the bridge we are three. Me as the Captain. A Chief Mate and a second mate.

COMM:

Men are not used to a woman at the wheel. Women don’t normally chart the course – literally or metaphorically. Or give orders... however pleasantly. And the crew knows their lives are in her hands.

"tve works with partners worldwide to make films that inspire change"

Plus Tate, includes Newlyn's Orion Gallery in the country's most dynamic art institutions.

Newlyn Orion and the Exchange in Penzance have been included in a national arts project called Plus Tate.

Culture Secretary launches Plus Tate, a major new collaborative arts initiative.

Plus Tate, a major new national initiative for the visual arts involving Tate and 18 of the UK’s most dynamic arts institutions, was launched on 21 October at Tate Modern by Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. Joining together to exchange ideas, knowledge, skills and resources, as well as programmes and collections, the Plus Tate partners, along with and facilitated by Tate, will broaden and deepen engagement in modern and contemporary art across the country.

The full list of partners announced is as follows: Arnolfini, Bristol; BALTIC, Gateshead; Cornerhouse, Manchester; firstsite, Colchester; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Grizedale Arts, Cumbria; The Hepworth Wakefield; Ikon, Birmingham; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; mima, Middlesbrough; Mostyn, Llandudno; Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance; Nottingham Contemporary; The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney; Towner, Eastbourne; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; and Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn (Cambridge).

The impact of the visual arts on cultural and socio-economic regeneration in the regions has been hugely significant in recent years. Building on the achievements of this sector requires imaginative new models of collaboration and entrepreneurial thinking.

During a pilot phase of the Plus Tate programme in 2009, then known as Tate Connects, several organisations in the network began to set new standards for sector responsibility through a cost-effective and resilient approach to running galleries and arts organisations, exploring together new ways of increasing generated income, setting up staff training and placement schemes, as well as sharing audience research and joint business models. The network has subsequently expanded and now 18 organisations are on board, plus Tate.

Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt said: “In a week where we achieved a good spending settlement for the arts, I am very pleased to be at Tate to launch Plus Tate. It is an outstanding example of initiative, creative thinking and collaboration. The partnership between Tate and these eighteen arts organisations up and down the country will bring huge public benefit, by pooling resources and inspiring people through art.”

Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “The Plus Tate network is central to Tate’s vision. Working in partnership, collaborating closely with leading organisations that have high national and international profiles and strong links to their local communities, means we can support their further development and strengthen their hand by sharing with them Tate’s resources and Collection. At the same time, we can deepen our own experience by tapping into their particular expertise and inventiveness.”

One of the ten founding partners is BALTIC, Gateshead, which opened in 2003. BALTIC’s Director, Godfrey Worsdale, commented: “The Plus Tate partnership has been beneficial in assisting BALTIC to benchmark its plans and practices; fundamentally, the wider collaboration has created a forum in which individual and group issues can be embedded across the sector more quickly.”

Turner Contemporary, Margate, will open in 2011 and its Director, Victoria Pomery, said: “ We see the Plus Tate partnership as a huge support, acting as a platform through which we can share and exchange ideas and information with peer institutions and providing welcome access to Tate’s own expertise, experience and Collection.”