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Friday 15 July 2016

Cornish sardine season starts with a bang!


A is for Asthore, one of four boats to land overnight the first shots of sardines for the season in Newlyn...


skipper Dan driving the forklift ...


is all but done and dusted on the Pride of Cornwall with his first shot...
    

the 3m stern mark shows she is well laden...


almost all inshore trawl fish this morning...


so lemons...


hake...


John Dory...


Dovers...


red mullet...


along with some net caught hake...


and a handful of langoustine form the beam trawler WSS...


to aid provenance, it seems some of the punts have taken to naming their shellfish now


Gary is keen to show off his new party trick, levitating fish to market superintendent Lionel, 


while the buyers take not of the auctioneers pointers on quality...


scraping the last bucket of fish from the bowels of the boat...


another member of the Ocean Fish...


three of the sardine boats at the market...


with Lionel keeping an eye in things...


the sardine boat Mayflower sits squarely in the water.

First Cornish sardines for the season!

Thursday 14 July 2016

Black and white make grey today.


The White Heather is black and grey today...


kind of "Back to black", there is always interesting artwork to be seen down the quay...


looks like Dan only has a hundred fathoms to go...


almost there for the good ship Galilee.

Bonito fishing in the Cantabrico aboard the San Roque Divine,




The capture of Albacore goes back several centuries ago when boats Cantabrian ports out to sea using small rowboats and sailing. Fished with art crankbait or trolling (fishing techniques hook). Traditionally this has been the style of fishing more used by fishermen in northern Spain until the middle of this century broke the call live bait. The Cantabria fleet employ the technique of live bait. They are traditional crafts using cane and hook. This means that the Tuna is fished one by one, allowing you to select those samples of better quality. In addition, these techniques do not involve incidental catch of other species or deteriorate the seabed, unlike those that are not selective. 

Fishing Albacore is carried out in the coastal June to October, when the specimen is at its peak for fish and consumed. At this time, the boats head to the Bay of Biscay, where the most important core fishing Albacore concentrated. The boats have to fish for anchovy to be used as bait first, keep them alive in nurseries seawater bearing. After locating hours or days later the bank Bonito, the boat sits on top of him. The sailors then "macizan" sea throwing live bait alongside the ship while directing strong jets of water at the same site to look like water "boils" in the amount of anchovy. It also serves to hide the fishermen while throwing reeds with bocartes hookups. 

Pretty excited about food, up to throwing on the bait surface. Once captured the top with an accurate blow of oarlocks and stored in the hold between layers of ice waiting to be landed quickly in the harbor. The images they have been recorded by the crew of the San Roque Divine

Wednesday 13 July 2016

Devon fishermen treated as 'common criminals'



Barry
Image captionBarry Young, from Brixham Trawler Agents

Fishermen in Devon have claimed they are being singled out for increased inspection by the Government.
Fishing industry leaders in Brixham say the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has become increasingly heavy-handed since new rules were brought in. One trawler has lost about £15,000 in potential earnings because of the changes and is seeking compensation, its owner said.
The MMO has declined to comment while investigations were ongoing. It closely monitors catches to protect fish stocks and unveiled a new strategy earlier this year. Barry Young, from Brixham Trawler Agents, says fishermen have always cooperated with the MMO.
"We're told during a year the MMO is supposed board about 10% of vessels on a quayside," he said. "But over the last six to eight weeks they have boarded 100% of vessels. Any vessel coming into Brixham has been boarded."


Boat
Image captionThe Kerrie Marie

One trawler, the Kerrie Marie, was ordered back to port last month after one of 200 boxes of fish was not recorded in the log.
Its owners said they lost three days fishing and about £15,000 in potential earnings even though no offence was committed. They are now seeking compensation from the MMO.


Dave
Image captionDave Langdon, owner of the Kerrie Marie

Owner Dave Langdon said: "We feel like we're being persecuted by the MMO and it's not good. The fisherman is being treated like a common criminal."
However, fishermen in Cornwall say they haven't noticed any change. Elizabeth Stephenson from the Cornish Fish Producers Organisation said: "It's business as usual." She added: "We haven't noticed any changes, and haven't heard any reports from the boats, out at sea or in the harbour."
The MMO said it has received correspondence in relation to enforcement action at Brixham. A spokesman said: "The MMO can make no further comment because these matters are still under investigation." 

French trawler catches Portuguese submarine in trawl 30 miles south of Plymouth,

The Daytona is now back at sea after the incident off Plymouth


A Portuguese submarine taking part in a Nato exercise off Cornwall has become snagged on the nets of a French trawler. The warship Tridente has been caught roughly 30 miles miles south west of Plymouth in Devon. It was below the surface when it became snagged on the nets of Daytona, a French fishing boat.

The 220ft navy attack sub which weighs more than 2,000 tonnes was on training mission off Lizard Point coast , got stuck in the net and hit the fishing boat as it tried to surface.

Damage was caused to the nets of Daytona, which was fishing in the area at the time.

A Royal Navy spokesman confirmed there were no casualties from the incident.

Divers are now on the boat trying to see what damage has happened to the submarine. The submarine was assigned to Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) out of Plymouth and was released for the night

An investigation into the incident will now take place.

Dutch WhatsApp group inspires action and collaborative protest!

On the eve of the 2016 IIFET conference in Aberdeen,  Scotland a dutch news site reports on collective action from Dutch fishermen against the EU and what it sees as draconian rule imposition - especially with reference to the Landing Obligation - nil discards.



"Dutch fishermen are planning a series of protests against European rules that they claim are destroying their industry. The ‘Eendracht Maakt Kracht’ (‘Unity Is Strength’) movement says it wants to inform the public about ‘the real story’ of Brussels interference. ‘Fishermen are tired of the lies of politicians and environmental organisations,’ spokesman Jan de Boer told the Volkskrant. The group’s first campaign is planned for the World Port Days in Rotterdam, in the first week of September, when around 50 cutters will sail into the harbour and fishermen will hand out flyers and serve fried fish. 

De Boer ruled out direct action such as French-style blockades. ‘Blockades just lead to more frustrated people,’ he told the newspaper. ‘Everybody should be allowed to get on with their work.’ Brussels quotas EMK’s main grievance is with the fishing quotas imposed by Brussels and the tide of regulation that comes with them. Fishermen are unhappy with rules that state that all fish caught at sea count towards the quota, including those that are too small to sell. Crews are no longer allowed to throw ‘worthless’ tiddlers back in the sea. 

The group, which evolved from a WhatsApp community in fishing communities such as Urk, is also critical of the existing representative groups in the industry, which it says have failed to stand up for fishermen’s interests. ‘The groups in the fisheries sector are always in talks but never strike a blow,’ said De Boer. But marine ecologist Han Lindeboom, of Wageningen University, argued that the fishing industry was already well represented in environmental talks. Lindeboom said that his proposal for a no fishing zone covering a quarter of the North Sea, something he has lobbied for for 25 years, had been blocked by interest groups. ‘There are very few protected areas in the North Sea,’ he said."

Read more at DutchNews.nl: Fishermen plan wave of protests against Brussels