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Wisconsin is honoured to host the 10th International Congress on the Biology of Fish, the world’s premier meeting for fish physiologists, organised by the Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society.

We seek your financial support for this dynamic international event. The congress has a range of symposia covering a wide area of topics related to fish physiology, including cell culture tools; physiological impact of parasites; using fish as indicators of climate change, environmental stress and pollution; ionic regulation; olfaction; food intake and migratory behaviour.


Exhibitors will have intimate exposure to key users of aquarium facilities, field equipment and tracking devices as well as specialised physiological and molecular laboratory equipment.


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On behalf of the Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society, I thank you for your support and look forward to hearing from you.

D Mark GJ Hartl
President Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society

Plenty of boats in port tonight.

Aboard the Chichester Lass - pilchaaaarrrd fishing!

SCIENCE IN FISHING

(in the 1960s that is)

Video extract courtesy of British Pathé Films.

1st tier is 'Chichester Lass' Bobby Jewell, 'Girl Renee' John Stevens 'Lamorna'  Willie Care 'Godwit' 'Renovelle' Jimmy Madron 'Mayflower' Dickie Worth

There's plenty of fishermen who will remember the skipper seen in the film above - Bobby Jewell's last boat was called the New Dawn sold to the Isle of Man after he retired.

Storyboard details from the British Pathé web site:

"Newlyn, Cornwall. L/S of Newlyn harbour with lots of fishing boats. L/S of a trawler with the harbour in the background. A shot from the deck of a trawler of the sea and other boats with the coastline in the background. There is a man on deck working in the foreground. L/S of a lighthouse, a boat and the harbour become visible as the boat with the camera on sails away. C/U of the skipper, Bobby Jewell, looking out of the window of the cabin on 'The Chichester Lass'. C/U of the boat cutting through the water. M/S of a machine inside the cabin, it is a box on the wall with a gauge and a pointer which spins round. The results are printed out at the bottom. The machine is a radar echo sounder to locate the pilchards and the crew is experimenting with the device. C/U of the machine........"

Read the rest of the storyboard on the British Pathé site here:

UK secures important breakthrough on management of fish stocks.

The European Commission today agreed that fishing quotas will not be subject to an automatic cut by the EU if data about individual stocks is insufficient. Addressing the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Luxembourg today, Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki said that she had dropped plans to impose an automatic cut of 25 per cent if data was not considered to be reliable.

She added that the quota would not automatically default to the previous year’s quota and would instead be decided on a case by case basis. Speaking from Luxembourg, UK Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon said: “I spoke to Commissioner Damanaki before the council meeting this morning and I’m pleased to see some realism in the decisions being made here. Just because the data on a stock doesn’t give the full picture, that doesn’t mean slashing the amount which you’re allowed to catch by a quarter is the right response. “The UK fully supports the Commission’s ambitions to ensure that fish stocks are sustainable in the long term. But we can’t support proposals which have no basis in science and could risk increasing discards from otherwise healthy stocks.”

Richard Benyon is representing the interests of all UK fishermen at the Council meeting in Luxembourg today, where issues being discussed include the annual negotiations with Norway to manage Total Allowable Catch in the North Sea.

Big blondes in a box.

Hake from the netter Ajax graced the market floor this morning, with nearly two and a half tons of 2-3kg fish making up the bulk of the catch........

at the other end of the auction hall, fish boxes stretched as from end-to-end........

top quality monk from the beamer Sapphire........

no time to sit on the fence with some hectic bidding.........

good sized cod are referred to as 'green' in many parts of the UK, not hard to see why........

just two specimen big blondes weighed in at 27 kg.......

early signs of cuttlefish are beginning to appear heralding the start of another black gold rush for the beamers.......

with strong sou'easterly winds over the weekend lashing the Bay the Scillonian took up a more sheltered berth inside Penzance Harbour.

Lizard lifeboat first callout in anger - on a Saturday night.

Gill netter, Sparkling Line seen here in Newlyn earlier in the year.

The new lifeboat based at the Lizard in west Cornwall was been launched for its first rescue over the weekend. The RNLB Rose was called out to help a Newlyn fishing boat with six people on board after it suffered engine failure.  The 18m (60ft) netter Sparkling Line got into trouble 21 miles off The Lizard just before 21:00 BST on Saturday. See full story on the BBC web site here

NEW LIFEBOATS LAUNCHED BY DUKE OF EDINBURGH

The new boat is the latest in a number that have been stationed in one of the most inhospitable coves around the UK's coast. Film extract courtesy of British Pathé.

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SOS - Save Our Shaun!

Passionate about fish - the port's top pole and line tuna skipper. 

Shaun Edwards, skipper of a Newlyn fishing boat who was honoured after going to the aid of a sinking ship claims he was sacked for taking time off to receive his award. Shaun Edwards was presented with The Lady Swaythling Award after his ship battled through gale-force winds to help pluck 47 passengers off the Fryderyk Chopin, a dismasted tall ship. ​ 

Skipper Shaun Edwards was sacked after taking time off to receive a rescue award The audacious rescue bid last November led to the skipper and his crew on the Nova Spero being hailed as heroes. But Mr Edwards claims he was sacked from a subsequent job working on a Government-owned fisheries research ship when he took time off to attend the ceremony, where Princess Anne presented his award. Paul Trebilcock, chief executive of the Cornish Fish Producers Organisation, said the decision was "heartless". "Shaun and his crew put their own lives at risk that night," he said. "What they did was above and beyond the call of duty."


After the rescue last year, Mr Edwards placed another skipper in charge of the Nova Spero and took a job as second mate aboard fishery research ship Cefas Endeavour. He asked managers of the ship, P&O Maritime Services, for a trip off to attend the ceremony. But he claims this request and another to take leave without pay or swap shifts with another mate, were all refused. Mr Edwards went to the award at the historic Fishmongers Hall in London and his employment was later terminated. The matter has now been taken up by St Ives MP Andrew George, who is going to ask the fisheries minister Richard Benyon to intervene. Mr Edwards was yesterday back at sea onboard the Nova Spero, but told the industry newspaper Fishing News: "I feel very badly let down and penalised for helping a vessel in distress." 


When contacted by the Western Morning News, Alan Rowan, general manager for P&O Maritime Services in the firm's Galway office in Ireland, said he did not wish to comment any further on the story.


Story courtesy of the Cornish Guardian.