Saturday, 13 September 2014
Friday, 12 September 2014
Crabbing in style aboard the Amadeus
The first part of the video follows a huge Dutch beam trawler in the process of hauling and shooting her gear in a near gale filmed from the wheelhouse of the Amadeus. Then the action returns to the crabber and time to exchange a few quiet words with skipper Jamie McDade. Here the camera takes the viewer on a guided tour of the wheelhouse and a bird'e eye view of the man on the hauler in action before heading off down below the the shelterdeck to see the crew cleaning and baiting just some of the boat's 1,500 inkwell pots during a spell of fine weather. Later the action switches to night time fishing by nwhich time the weather has deteriorated badly and the boys are having to haul the gear on a heaving deck in a gale of wind. Flying aboard, a wet pot full of crab can weigh 50-60 lbs or more - these boys make the job of picking the pots up over the side of the boat on to the sorting table look so easy - it isn't.
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| The boat is currently working off the Danish coast - a long way from her home registered port of Teignmouth. |
Bigger crabbers like the Amadeus are fairly nomadic and travel the watersaround the UK working a wide range of crabbing grounds in search of brown crab. They are among the highest days-at-sea boats in the UK fleet as they can fish in almost any weather - and do.
Fisheries researcher heads up the top 3% of papers read at University of Plymouth!
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| Relevant and reliable data is everything in research |
Some of the best research on the fishing industry is being carried out in the South West. Notably, people like Maria Campbell from University of Plymouth with paper, 'Priority questions to shape the marine and coastal policy research agenda in the UK'.
The fishing industry needs more papers like this from well-advised researchers and bodies like the Marine Policy Group who are able to empathise with the industry to achieve a solid future through developing trust and respect for the work of both disciplines.
#FishyFriday finds the fleet facing fresh winds in the harbour
The pout...
more often than not referred to locally as the Bothak - so named because of its ability to puff out a film from the eye on being taken out of the water - from the Cornish word meaning swollen or humped. In Vannes, Brittany the same fish is boheg meaning 'big cheeked' similar to bochog or boghek both Cornish words...
the Brixham beam trawler Kerrie Marie sold her fish on the market this morning...
along with the Lisa Jacqueline and the James RH...
who landed three of the most common ray species landed in Newlyn...
it was a tad fresh outside the market this morning...
big and ugly but a great taste and possibly the best fish going to make fish cakes with...
big red and tasty tub gurnards...
good monk tail selection from the Kerrie Marie...
best bass, someone was up early this morning...
every chance it might rain later as the local gull population wheels around the market on the scrounge...
big, square transom sterns are de-rigeur in modern fishing vessel design..
dawn patrol looking out to the gaps...
Sapphire II all set for sea...
Barry has decided to get the boat out of the water for a late season refit...
leaving the anglers test the waters this morning at dawn...
bright decks on the Kerrie...
most of the sardine fleet are berthed together...
while the netters now have a few days off over the big spring tide...
the Britannia V, varnished boats always look good with a fresh coat showing off their construction and sweet lines...
while the Lisa is now resplendent in her company workboat colours...
Tom keeps his head down under the cloud cover...
as the first of the years stronger winds begin to test the new sea defences...
there is a grand opening party here this afternoon at 4pm to signal the end to a three-month project to repair the sea defences on Newlyn Green. An official ribbon-cutting to re-open the green will take place at 3.45pm with all local residents invited to attend. People will be able to visit a display trailer from 3.30pm to view progress photos and find out general information about the work undertaken. There will also be the chance to ask questions to Cormac staff and Cornwall Council officers about the work. Teams of 14 men have been working 11-hour shifts to ensure the green was usable in time for the Newlyn Fish Festival and Newlyn raft race at the end of last month.
FISHSTOCK 2014 IS ON TOMORROW!
The Multi-Award Winning Seafood & Music Festival “Fishstock Brixham” ® will be back in Torbay this Saturday 13th September. New sponsors for this year, Morrisons are pleased to join event supporting fish firms Brixham Trawler Agents, Coombe Fisheries, Falfish, Interfish, Ocean Fish and Paramount21, along with solicitors Kitsons and insurance brokers Maritime International Solutions, in helping the team at Fishstock Brixham to put on an even bigger and better show this year, all in support of the Fishermen’s Mission. The event is also very grateful to Torbay Harbour Authority & Council for allowing the use of the Fish Market and Quays for this public event.
Fishstock Brixham 2014 is a public, licensed fund-raising event, exclusively for the Fishermen’s Mission. Since the first Fishstock Brixham was held in September 2008 £43,000 has been raised and donated to the Fishermen’s Mission. All surplus of income over expenditure is donated.
The event is a one-day celebration of seafood, fishing & maritime heritage with public displays of fresh fish, fish fileting & preparation, seafood cookery demonstrations, food and drink sales, music and dance entertainment, artists, artisans and activities for children.
Children of all ages can enjoy learning seafood preparation and cookery in the “Food is Fun” classroom kitchen marquee, sponsored as part of the “Morrisons Fisheries & Education Zone”. Classes will be led by tutors from the Catering & Hospitality Unit kitchens of South Devon College.
Seafood aficionados will be enthralled by chefs on the 2 “Food is Fun” Theatre Kitchen Stages. This year’s demonstrations will feature Simon Hulstone from the Elephant, Richard Jenkins from the Globe Topsham, Andy Sewell from the Quayside, David Jones of Manna from Devon, David Galpin from S D College plus Graham from the Old Market House, Phil from the Quayside and Felicity of Brilliant Fish. Duncan & Sue Lucas will perform fishy knife-craft skills on stage with Terry Martin from M&J Seafoods. Their wet-fish displays demonstrate they are “Passionate about Fish”.
Kitsons are once again proud to be sponsoring the Brixham Chefs Piazza, where this year the focus will be on delicious Cajun Fishcakes donated by S Devon firm “Paramount21”. These home-cooking specialists will also prepare Mackerel donated by Interfish, Plymouth in Baps donated by Morrisons. There will be also delicious scallops & chorizo, with grateful thanks to Falfish and Coombe Fisheries, who also sponsor our musicians sound stages. The Brixham Chefs, led by Ron Campion and Janice Cooke will man this kitchen until supplies run out, with all proceeds for the Fishermen’s Mission! There will be boats alongside to tour, including the Barentszee (modern Beam Trawler) fresh out of refit and heritage trawlers Vigilance and Pilgrim (as toured in Brixham by their Royal Highnesses, Charles & Camilla in July 2013. Coming alongside for public tours will be RNLB “Alec & Christina Dykes”. This year the event that celebrates great fish & seafood with fabulous music on 2 stages boasts a fabulous music line-up with Torbay’s “These Reigning Days” headlining the Coombe Fisheries main stage at 2150 for a spectacular finale.
They will be well-supported with a full line-up of talented local and regional rock and pop bands. To open the show will be “Jumping Out Jazz” from Cornwall. We will then introduce the Brixham crowd to the “FishWives Choir”, the fishing industry’s answer to Gareth Malone’s Military Wives. These lovely ladies, many of whom are widows of fishermen, raise awareness of and funds for the Fishermen’s Mission. The ladies are followed by “Gravity Storm”, “Dodgey Practice”, “Pete Canter’s Light Flight”, “Classic Gold”, “The Clock Surgeons”, sounds of Rod Stewart with “Gasoline Alley”,pre-teen idols “Hysteria”, then Brixham boys “M.I.U.”
60s rockers “Duke Johnson & the Scorchers” will get the crowd jumping ready for the fabulous finale with , “These Reigning Days”, fresh back from Vladivostok and soon to launch their debut album “Opera of Love”.
FOOD IS FUN KITCHEN ONE: LIVE
THEATRE DEMONSTRATIONS
1000 – 1130 GRAHAM FROM OLD
MARKET HOUSE, BRIXHAM:
MASTERCLASS WITH MONK
1130 – 1230 SIMON FROM THE
ELEPHANT TORQUAY:
MASTERCLASS
1230 – 1330 RICHARD FROM
THE GLOBE TOPSHAM:
MASTERCLASS
1330 – 1430 ANDY FROM THE
QUAYSIDE BRIXHAM:
MASTERCLASS
1430 – 1530 RICHARD WITH DAVID JONES:
READY STEADY
COOK
1530 – 1630 ANDY
& PHIL:
GENERATION GAME
1630 – 1730 FELICITY & FRIENDS:
BRILLIANT INKY FISH
FOOD IS FUN KITCHEN TWO: LIVE
THEATRE DEMONSTRATIONS
1000 – 1130 DUNCAN, SUE & GUESTS
PASSIONATE
ABOUT FISH:
Fish-Knife Craft
1130 – 1230 FELICITY
& FRIENDS:
BRILLIANT
INKY FISH
1230 – 1330 DAVID GALPIN & DAVID JONES:
READY
STEADY COOK
1330 – 1430 DUNCAN, SUE & GUESTS:
PASSIONATE ABOUT FISH
Fish-Knife Craft
1430 – 1530 S D COLLEGE
Demonstration
cooking
1530 – 1630 S D COLLEGE
Demonstration
cooking
1630 -- 1730 S D COLLEGE
Demonstration
cooking
Festival music
Sponsored by Coombe Fisheries: The Main Stage &
Dance Floor:
1100 - 1145: Jumping
Out Jazz
1145 - 1215: Introducing: The FishWives Choir
1215 - 1300: Gravity
Storm
1300 - 1315: ZumbaRach
(Floor Performance)
1315 - 1400: Dodgey
Practice
1400 - 1430: Brixham
Bellywood Belles (Floor)
1430 - 1515: Pete
Canter’s Light Flight
1515 - 1530: Project
Performers Little Mermaids (Floor)
1530 - 1615: Classic
Gold
1615 - 1630:
1630 - 1715: The
Clock Surgeons
1715 - 1730: Brixham
Bellywood Belles (Floor)
1730 - 1815: Gasoline
Alley
1815 - 1830:
1830 - 1915: Hysteria
1915 - 1930: ZumbaRach
(Floor)
1930 - 2015: M.I.U.
2030 - 2130: Duke
Johnson & the Scorchers
2150 - CLOSE: These
Reigning Days
Sponsored by Falfish: The Acoustic Stage:
1100 - 1140: Southern
Comfort
1155 - 1235: Swashbuckle
1250 - 1330: Ian
Hunt (Solo)
1345 - 1425: Torbay
Ukulele Band
New this year!
FISHLIT@Fishstock
By Michelle Heatley:
If you love sea-food, great music head down to Fishstock the award
winning festival of all things Fishy at Brixham’s Fish Market on Saturday 13
September.
This year sees the launch of
FishLit@Fishstock an exciting new Brixham based literature festival. At this
first event you will be able to ‘Meet the
Authors’.
There will be best-selling author Kate Furnivall signing her latest novel
Far Side of the Sun,
Linda Mitchelmore will be there with her highly acclaimed novels To Turn
Full Circle and Emma: No Turning Back
and well known Brixham writer Anne Goring will be signing her wonderful
historical novels. Children attending
the event can meet Drifter and Scully
and also discover the Little Fishing Boats of Brixham with Karl Gale.
Debut novelist Michelle Heatley will be signing her novel Fish Soup
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