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CONTENTS
4
Comment
6
Upfront
8
News
18 Gear
22 Boats & Gear
26 Net to plate
28 Port of Call ... Holland
32 Product News
14 Cover story
33 Profiles
Are we paying too much for a
modern and efficient industry?
39 Q&A
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June 2014
OPINION
FISHING NEWS
The elephant in the room
Fishing Publications
Editor
It was heartening to see in a recent edition
of IntraFish Media’s weekly publication
Fishing News that there are still dedicated
young men being trained up and who are
perpared to take on the mantle of ‘fishermen
of the future’ and in doing so, are ensuring
the survival of one of the oldest ways of life
in human history.
But, aside from their obvious bravery in
deciding to go into what is accepted as being
one of the most dangerous occupations in the
world, one can only sympathise with them in
advance with regard to what might lie in wait
for them over the coming years in terms of
European Union (EU) fisheries management
and ever increasing levels of restrictions that
are sure to be imposed.
As seen by my report from a trip to EU HQ
in Brussels (see page 10), those in charge
of bringing in the discards ban remain
convinced that it will work – but, as pointed
out by SFF President Alan Coghill recently
(Fishing News 11 April), where will these
policy makers be in 10 or 20 years’ time when
this industry might be on its knees as a result
of yet again another poor management decision made by EU collar & tie workers who
have never been to sea in their lives?
Personally, what I found most frustrating
during my meetings in Brussels was the attitude of some EU fisheries personnel – and I
INTERNATIONAL
DAWN: The
discards ban in the
European Union
was intended to
solve the problem
– but none of
the EU’s policy
advisors seem
able to answer
the question as to
where this ‘extra’
fish will now be
disposed of
Cormac
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hasten to add that I don’t mean the elected
MEPs on the Fisheries Committee – that the
industry should just ‘get on with it’ and the
feeling of “what’s all the fuss about?”
Aside whether people agree with the discard
ban or not, it is the attitude of insisting that
this is ‘the way it’s going to be’ and that each
Member State simply has to make it work.
As I said in a comment to the Director of DG
Mare (the EU Commissioner’s department),
these people exist to serve the EU fishing
industry, and not the other way around. But
unfortunately, ‘the other way around’ is very
much how it appears to be perceived by many
in Brussels at least.
There is no doubt in who is having the final
say in this, and many other issues that effect
the fishing industry.
Of course there is ‘consultation’ – where
much fuss and ado is made of bringing in
the fishing industry representatives and
making sure the media is told about this. But
it would be very interesting if the industry’s
representatives could publish a list of recommendations that they have made over the
past five years, and then compare it to the list
of actions that were subsequently taken by
EU administrators and policy makers.
The discard ban is a prime example – there
seems to be little thought gone into how it
will effect fishermen in so many different
types of mixed fisheries. Does anyone think
that the fishing industry proposed this?
And, in typical EU fashion, the whole plan
hasn’t been thought through. It’s astounding,
but unfortunately not funny, to see the officials’ faces when the question of where the
discarded fish is going to go if it isn’t to be
dumped at sea – “err, well, err, we’re still in
talks about that...”
Surely this is a case of building your own
airplane and saying that you’ll worry about
having no landing gear when you run out of
fuel....
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UPFRONT
AROUND THE WORLD
Spain
The Secretariat of
Marine Affairs of
Galicia announced
a 40% increase in
aid for scrapping
fishing vessels
The Philippines
Chinese coast guard vessels
blocked or chased Filipino
and Vietnamese fishermen
from a disputed shoal, a
Filipino officer alleged
USA
A Superior Court
in Alaska heard
arguments over
proposed commercial
setnet fishing ban
Angola
The Angolan vice
president inaugurated
three modern fishing
boats, one for research
and two for surveillance
at an estimated cost of
$60 million
A fishing vessel with
500kg of fish on board
was apprehended about
275 nautical miles west
of Darwin in Australia
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Russia predicts
early arrival
of Bering Sea
pollock
The Pacific Fisheries Research
Center (TINRO) released its
Bering Sea pollock fishing season
forecast for 2014, saying that
fish stock in the East Bering Sea
(Navarinsky pollock) will be at
an average level.
“The results of bottom trawl
and trawl-acoustic surveys in
2013 saw the Bering Sea pollock
stock in a stable state due to
high-yield generation of 2008
and several middle-yield generations in 2009-2012,” Mikhail
Stepanenko, a leading researcher
at TINRO said.
Long-term surveys show that
during summer through autumn
approximately
1.5
million
tonnes of pollock approach to
Navarinsky area from the eastern
part of the Bering Sea.
This year scientists expect an
earlier migration of pollock to
Russian waters. In the second half
of June fishing should be stabilised, however the peak catch in
Navarinsky area is expected in
August or September.
West Bering Sea pollock stocks
remain at a low level. Therefore,
Total Allowable Catch (TAC)
for the Western Bering Sea fell
100 tonnes to 393,000 tonnes.
Pollock in Karaginskaya subarea
is well below average.
Australia
CALM WATERS: Bering Sea
pollock stock in a “stable
state”, Russian researchers
say
“There were not abundant
generations
in
2005-2006.
Therefore
the
TAC
in
Karaginskaya subarea decreased
by 15,300 tonnes to 16,100
tonnes,” Stepanenko said.
In the Chukotka area Russian
fishermen can catch 5,300
tonnes. TAC for the 2014 pollock
season in Russia has been set at
1.6298 million tonnes, around 3%
down from the previous season.
Russian fishermen in the Sea of
Okhotsk – another main pollock
fishing ground – caught 7,787,350
tonnes of pollock by April 6, with
TAC used by 89.2%. Russian
Season A Pollock fishing in West
Kamchatka and Kamchatka/
Kuril fishing grounds of the Sea
of Okhotsk ended on March 31.
“It is I who have been the driving
force here. Had I not been the main
shareholder, Aker would not have
invested in fish”
– Norwegian billionaire Kjell Inge
Rokke said in the annual report of
diversified Norwegian giant Aker
Group. He took responsibility for Aker
entering and remaining in the fishing
segment, where it now indirectly has
stakes in Aker Biomarine, Havfisk,
Norway Seafoods and Ocean Harvest
US ratifies UN
treaty against
illegal fishing
The United States Senate
recently took a strong stand in the
global fight against illegal fishing
by ratifying a treaty which will
prevent illegally caught fish from
entering the market through
ports around the world.
The treaty, called the Port State
Measures Agreement (PSMA),
also would empower port officials
to prohibit foreign vessels that
are suspected of illegal activity
from receiving port services and
access. By cutting off market
access for illegally caught fish,
the treaty will erode the profit
incentive that drives the activity.
The treaty, which the UN
adopted in 2009, applies to
foreign-flagged vessels calling
on ports in any country that is a
party to the agreement.
Port officials who conclude a
vessel has a known or suspected
record of illegal fishing will turn
away the vessel or subject it to
immediate inspection. If there
is evidence of illegal catch, port
officials will prohibit the landing
of the catch. They will alert other
ports to the situation and could
deny the vessel permission to
refuel or receive repairs.
Worldwide, illegal and unreported fishing accounts for up
to 26m tonnes of fish annually, worth up to $23.5bn. That
equates to more than 816kg of
wild-caught fish stolen from our
seas every second.
See Net to Plate on pages 26-27.
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It’s been a GOOD month for:
It’s been a BAD month for:
Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi,
which saw 3,000 investors subscribe
to buy shares for a total of ISK 23
billion (€148.2 million), through its
public offering
Skipjack tuna prices, which reached their
lowest levels since 2010 in January this
year, dropping nearly 40% year-on-year
to $1,275, with no short-term recovery in
sight according to industry players
French fleet bidding war
IN NUMBERS
5.5%
Armement Dhellemmes
vessels are in the eye of
a storm in France. Local
fishermen fear loss of
jobs over a potential
Scapêche buy out,
while Spanish buyers
circle
Russian pollock
harvesters’ A season
saw a 5.5% increase
in catches over the
same time last year
Dominic Welling
French fishermen launched a
rival bid for a number of Armement Dhellemmes vessels, in
an attempt to keep them in the
port at Concarneau in northern
France.
Dhellemmes, part of the Dutch
pelagic group Cornelis Vrolijk,
has been in talks with Scapeche,
the fishing arm of French retail
group Intermarche, for several
months over the sale of seven
of its nine vessels, but the shipowners want to rival this offer
with one of their own.
The owners of the seven fishing vessels concerned joined
together to submit the counter
bid of between €12m and €15m
to take ownership, which they
believe will “save the fishing
port” if it is accepted.
The worry is that if Scapeche
succeeds in buying the vessels,
they will be relocated to the
port of Lorient, where Scapeche
has been established since the
late 1990s, which will damage
Concarneau and result in job
losses at the port.
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RACING AHEAD: Who will win in the bidding war for the Dhellemmes vessels?
The vessels involved in the sale
include four trawlers – Corail,
Saint-Gothard, Roselend and
Iroise – and three purse seiners,
War Raog III and IV and Berceau
de l’Ocean.
A pool of Spanish ship owners
has emerged as a potential buyer
for the vessels.
Pedro Dermit, who is advising and managing the group of
Spanish ship owners confirmed
to Fishing News International he
was looking at possibly putting
in a bid for the vessels and had
made contact with the sellers.
If the bid materialises it would
the third on the table for the
vessels, following offers from
Scapeche. Dermit told Fishing
News International however that
he was currently monitoring the
situation and is not ready yet to
make an offer.
“I have had some contact but
for the moment it is not my
option,” Dermit said.
“Maybe it is too complicated
for me; it could happen but it is
not likely.”
Dermit represents a number
of different Spanish ship owners
from Cadiz. According to
Dermit, the offer from Scapeche
is the most likely to succeed, but
he will wait to see what happens
in the coming weeks when a
decision will probably be made.
When asked what amount
of money he would offer for
the vessels, Dermit declined to
comment, adding, “for that we
must look at the company bills,
the state of vessels, etc… it is
complicated.”
Many vessels from Brittany have been sold to Spanish
companies in recent months, a
source said, so the fact there are
two French companies ready to
buy Dhellemmes is seen as a good
sign, “because this time it is not
the Spanish. The main concern
is maybe Scapeche would scrap
a few vessels, what they need are
the fishing rights rather than the
vessels themselves.”
A total of 164
trawlers fished for
pollock in the Sea of
Okhotsk this year
250k
British and Irish
fishermen are
demanding action as
seal populations top
250,000
Sanford: Not involved in deals to cut crew pay
IntraFish Media
New Zealand-based fishing
company Sanford denied any
involvement with a manning
agent said to be trying to persuade
underpaid charter crewmen in
Indonesia to settle for less money.
Fairfax Media reported that
about 480 men working on South
Korean fishing boats chartered
to New Zealand companies had
been underpaid by about $25m.
Among the claims included
in papers filed with the Employment Relations Authority (ERA)
is $10 million sought from Dongwon Fishing, which allegedly
shortchanged 200 Indonesian
men on the Sanford chartered
fishing boats Dongwon 519, 530
and 701 and the Juham Industries vessel Pacinui.
Dongwon is a 50-50 partner
with Sanford in a fish-processing operation.
Sources in Indonesia revealed
the Dongwon manning agent in
Jakarta, Indah Megah Sari (IMS),
was trying to cut deals that
would be significantly below the
New Zealand minimum wage.
A
Sanford
spokesperson
said the company did not use
manning agents and to say it was
involved was incorrect, reported
stuff.co.nz.
“Nor is Sanford involved in
any way in any deals sought to
underpay fishing crews. It is up
to the ERA to determine the
validity of the claims before it,”
she said, adding that Sanford
fully supports the ERA process
to determine any settlement
between the crew and the vessel
owners and is providing any
information it can to assist this
process.
IMS has called on men to
sign “peace agreements” and,
in an advertisement in a local
newspaper, says Dongwon 701,
530 and 519 crews who worked
between June 2009 and May
2012 “can take the rest of salaries caused [by] the miscounting
by Dongwon.”
They are required to dump
their legal representatives in
New Zealand. They will be paid
less than they would get in New
Zealand, but the Pacinui crew
would be guaranteed jobs on
boats in New Zealand.
Some
of
the
“peace
agreements” show a crewman
from one Dongwon ship settling
for NZD$19,700 when he was
claiming in NZD$86,527 for his
work.
Sanford had admitted about
100 of its Indonesian fishermen
being underpaid in February
this year, leaving them out of
pocket by NZD$885,000.
Sanford publicly admitted the
problem after Official Information Act documents revealed
underpayments.
The underpaid workers were
crew members aboard three of
Sanford’s foreign charter fishing vessels (FCVs), owned by
South Korea’s Dongwon, and
the company has since ordered
Dongwon and PT IMS to publish
notices in Jakarta newspapers
with details on how the affected
crew can obtain the rest of their
salaries.
In September last year, Immigration New Zealand wrote
to Sanford saying audits had
found “substantial non-compliance,” and that the accountancy
firm KPMG could not determine whether workers had
been paid appropriately because
documentation was “insufficient,
missing or written in Korean.”
Crew members walked off
one of Sanford’s other FCVs
in early February and human
rights activists said they left
because their timesheets were
being manipulated to reflect
fewer hours than those actually
worked.
Slave Free Seas campaigner,
Tauranga lawyer Craig Tuck,
said Sanford’s admission is probably only the beginning in the
industry in New Zealand.
“If the extent of the underpayments we are seeing in the
Sanford case go across the industry, and it is systematic, the thee
amount of underpayment could
easily top $13m,” Tuck said.
Allegations around Sanford’s
boats, the 41-year-old Dong
Won 701, 29-year-old 530 and
40-year-old 519, first surfaced
last year when Bloomberg
Businessweek
reported
on
28-year-old Indonesian, Yusril
(not his real name) who had
been working on 519.
His claims of abuse and underpayment attracted international
attention and a critical report
on New Zealand in the US State
Department’s human trafficking
report.
Major retailers Walmart and
Safeways launched investigations into New Zealand fish and
Mazzetta Company, the largest US importer of New Zealand
fish, wrote to Sanford’s then
managing director, Eric Barratt
demanding change if they were
to continue to do business with
them.
Barratt said they had used
agents in Indonesia to find Yusril
and had dismissed the claims
made.
Yusril his wife and family
had to go into hiding , fearing
for their safety, when manning
agents came to his house the day
after the Bloomberg story was
published.
He blamed other fishing
companies, citing Korea’s Oyang
Corp, for causing damage to
New Zealand’s reputation.
Sanford’s FCVs provided $40
million worth of tariff free fish
to Korea a year. New Zealand
flagged vessels have to pay up to
a 20% tariff.
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NEWS
Rokke defends fish
investments
In the annual report of
diversified Norwegian giant
Aker Group, Norwegian
billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke
took a very personal stand
on the Norwegian seafood
industry, defending some
of the investments he has
made over the years and
outlining the challenges
facing the sector.
“It is I who have been
the driving force here.
Had I not been the main
shareholder, Aker would
not have invested in
fish,” Rokke, a former
fisherman and the founder
of American Seafoods,
wrote in the report.
Rokke also noted that
Havfisk’s three eco-friendly
Gadus tralwers are setting
a new standard for fisheries
and trawl companies
operating in stormexposed stretches of sea.
“Profitability must
improve to justify the
investments,” he said.
EU signs off on €6.5bn
fisheries fund
The European Parliament
voted to hand out a
€6.5 billion budget for
2014-2020 under the
European Maritime
and Fisheries Fund.
The fund will finance
projects to implement
the new CFP and provide
financial support to
fishermen, fish farmers and
coastal communities to
adapt to the changed rules.
It will also finance
projects to boost ‘blue’
growth and jobs under
the EU’s Integrated
Maritime Policy.
The agreement, backed
by the European Parliament
in Strasbourg, is the final
piece of a series of fisheries
reforms that EU Member
States have haggled
over since April 2009.
Pacific bluefin tuna
population ‘decimated,’
The Pacific bluefin tuna
population remains
decimated at 4% of historic
levels as a direct result of
“rampant overfishing”,
according to the latest
assessment from the
International Scientific
Committee for tuna and
tuna-like species in the
North Pacific Ocean, or ISC.
The latest report
found the catch rates
of the youngest bluefin
are high, greater than
90% of the total catch.
The highest catch
by number is of fish
less than one year old,
said the report.
“The Pacific bluefin
population has literally been
decimated,” said Amanda
Nickson, director of global
tuna conservation for The
Pew Charitable Trusts.
Russia’s 100,000t
quota in Morocco
The two countries sign
official protocol setting
quota for Russia in
Moroccan economic
zone
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Moroccan
authorities
have
assigned a previously set fish
quota of 100,000 tonnes to Russia
in its economic zone – a result of
the second session of the RussiaMorocco mixed commission for
fisheries.
The protocol was signed in a
ceremony on board the legendary
Russian sail ship Krusenstern,
which has been staying for several
days in Morocco, reported ITARTASS News Agency.
The protocol was signed by Ilya
Shestakov, Russian deputy minister of agriculture and the head
of the Federal Agency for Fishery (Rosrybolovstvo), and Zakiya
Driouch, secretary-general of the
sea fisheries department of the
Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture and Sea Fisheries.
“This protocol has been drawn
up in implementation of the
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work in the second year of the
operation of the agreement on
cooperation in the field of sea
fisheries between Russia and
Morocco,” Shestakov told ITARTASS in an interview.
“The agreement was signed
in February 2013. The Protocol
determines the specific aspects,
such as, for example, the number
of Moroccan students who will
attend institutes that are under
the jurisdiction of Rosrybolovstvo, as well as the size of fish
catch quotas assigned by Moroccan authorities to Russia.
“The sides have agreed that this
year Russia will catch fish in line
with the previously-set quota of
100,000 tonnes.
“However, the protocol points
out that before October this year
the sides will also hold a special
session of the mixed commission
to review the work of scientific
organizations and mull over
reconsidering the size of fish
catch quotas upwardly,” he said.
“This is an important aspect. I
think that we have got prospects
in this respect, since the stocks
of marine biological resources in
Morocco’s zone are really good
and make it possible to speak of
the possibility of an increase in
fish catch by Russian companies,”
Shestakov commented.
As part of the agreement
20 Moroccan students will
attend institutes under the jurisdiction of Rosrybolovstvo in
2014-2015.
New fishery targets pollock in Alaska
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The Kodiak seine fleet in Alaska
is embarking on a new fishery
to test the viability of catching
pollock with seine nets, a species
that is generally caught with
trawl gear.
The fishery will take place in
state waters, within three miles of
shore, under a special “commissioner’s permit” issued by the
Alaska Board of Fisheries in January, reported Homer News.
It is likely that a near-shore
pollock seine fishery might be
successful in terms of catch;
halibut charter boats in Homer
frequently stop at the end of the
Homer Spit and jig up pollock for
bait, indicating large schools.
While the fishery was originally also proposed for Kachemak
Bay, it is only being carried out in
Kodiak, because seine gear is not
a legal gear type for groundfish in
Kachemak Bay, which is a critical
habitat area.
It’s also an experimental gear
type for groundfish, according to
area management biologist Janet
Rumble with the Homer office of
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groundfish species in world fisheries
the Alaska Department of Fish
and Game.
“We’re not even sure that seine
is going to work,” Ms Rumble
said.
One driver behind the proposal
is a perception that high groundfish populations, most notably
pollock and cod, are driving down
the shellfish populations.
“[Groundfish] are more plentiful now than they were before,”
Janet Rumble said.
“Tanner crab are not as plentiful, Dungeness are gone, shrimp
is gone, we have these other two
(species) that seem to be prevalent, so let’s fish for them.
“I think people are interested in
seeing how it would affect things
if we had a little less pollock.”
Boats using jig gear for cod
are also now allowed to keep
pollock, without a limit as a
bycatch species. There are some
questions about harvest timing
in terms of market and product
quality, and the timing of the first
pollock test fishery, from April to
June, reflects the desire to avoid
conflict between the pollock and
salmon seine fisheries.
Another big question is potential bycatch, “If king salmon start
coming up in the seines, these are
things we’re all interested and
worried about,” she added.
There are a myriad of other
issues involved, including pollock
stock assessments, the upcoming federal pollock catch shares
program, observer coverage, and
more.
Alaska pollock prices expected
to firm ahead of new season
As one of the best “A” fishing seasons in years for Alaska
pollock winds down, executives with major US harvesting
companies said “B” season prices
are expected to increase across
all product types by as much as
$100-$200 per tonne for pinbone
out (PBO) blocks and surimi.
Compared to 2013 production, surimi output increased
11% from 57,100t to 63,400t.
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Peru’s top 10 fishmeal companies post combined $87m loss
Ten out of the 12
fishmeal and fish oil
companies in Peru
posted revenue losses
last year
Ten Peruvian fishmeal and fish
oil companies posted a cumulative loss of PEN242 million
(€63 million) during 2013, with
only two companies recording
profits, according to data from
the country’s National Fisheries
Society (SNP).
“In 2013, ten of the 12 fishmeal and fish oil firms which are
members of SNP suffered losses,
i.e only two companies made
a profit,” said Elena Conterno,
president of the SNP.
These 12 companies represent
56.45% of the fishing quota for
the north-central region, she
said.
“This is the reality of the
industry, we consider it important to know and share that
because there are many myths
about the financial situation of
enterprises and industry,” she
said.
Ms Conterno said recent
years have been difficult for
the fisheries sector in Peru not
only because of various climate
problems but also because of
regulatory factors primarily
for the fish meal and fish oil
sectors, which have to manage
many permits not only to the
ministry of production but also
to the ministry of environment.
According to the SNP in 2011
and 2012 only four fishmeal
companies posted losses, but
this increased to ten last year,
which Ms Conterno described
as “worrying.”
While last year there were
no records of El Nino, other
factors were behind the losses
of fishmeal companies such
as restrictions on fishing for
anchovy in the south and the
establishment of a low quota.
“Fishing in the south has
fallen considerably in recent
years and this has been reflected
in the years 2011, 2012 and
2013,” she said, adding that
companies have had to invest
heavily in compliance with the
maximum permissible limits
(MPL) as one of the few sectors
that are already set these limits
for effluents and emissions.
“Then all the companies
have had to make major investments estimated at $500m to
meet these limits are already in
force,” she declared.
Nearly half of Chilean
fisheries overexploited or
depleted
A study conducted by the
Chilean government shows 16
fisheries classified as overexploited or depleted.
The
study
from
the
Undersecretariat of Fisheries
and Aquaculture (Subpesca)
uses data obtained in 2013, and
shows 16 fisheries to be in a
critical condition.
In total, the study analyzed
the status of the 33 major fisheries and units of Chilean
fisheries, and the results show
12 as “fully exploited,” eight as
“overexploited,” eight as “out of
stock” and five without sufficient information.
The
situation
worsened
compared to 2012’s numbers –
several fisheries are at a delicate
level, and species such hake (in
Region X to XII) and fin hake (in
Region X to XII) went from full
operation to being overfished.
For overexploited fisheries
such as anchovy in the southern
center, golden eel (in Region X
-XI), kite line (in Region XIII to
X), and alfonsino (nationwide)
the situation is more dramatic
and recovery efforts have not
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yielded the expected results.
The situation is critical
and this
study places a
big challenge,” said Chile’s
Undersecretary for Fisheries
and Aquaculture Raul Sunico.
“Our work will focus on the
recovery of overexploited and
depleted fisheries,” he said.
Sunico added that the challenge was not possible to
surmount just by government
intervention alone.
“It will be impossible to cope
alone and we need the commitment of all stakeholders, from
fishermen to citizens.”
Chile has been awarded
66% of the global quota for
jack mackerel in the South
Pacific region, the equivalent of
290,000 tonnes, in 2014.
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June 2014
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EU discards
EU tells industry
to “give discard
ban a chance to
work”
Cormac Burke
DEAL: While the EU Commission claims the discard ban is
a ‘done deal’ the industry remains very concerned
Following recent interviews with Fishing News
International and various people at EU’s
headquarters, it would appear that policy
makers feel the EU fishing industry is worried
about the ramifications of a discard ban
without actually giving it a chance to see if it
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While those tasked with the
formation of a solution to the
discard problem say that they
recognise the implementation
of the ban will naturally have
‘teething problems’, there is also
no denying that all EU Member
States
unanimously
agreed
that the wasteful practice of
discarding of good fish had to be
brought to an end.
Despite drawing attention
to recent statements by SFF
President Alan Coghill that
the discard ban would “decimate the fleet” (Fishing News
issue 11April), Helene Banner,
EU spokeswoman for Maritime
Affairs and Fisheries (DG Mare),
told Fishing News International
that the decision-makers wanted
to bring in a discard ban that
could still be realistically flexible
enough for the industry to be able
to cope with it.
“There is no ‘total’ and no
‘immediate” ban’”, Banner said.
“The discard ban is limited to
species under catch limits and
introduced gradually over a fiveyear period. It would first apply
to fisheries that can adapt more
easily and end with fisheries that
may require additional time to
adapt,” she said.
The spokesperson explained
that the EU’s approach to a
discard ban took into account the
difficulties for certain sectors, but
without putting into question the
overall objective of sustainable
fishing.
In areas such as pelagic fisheries where boats are operating in
a single targeted species fishery, a
landing obligation will be in place
as of January 2015.
“But for mixed fisheries for
example, we recognise that a
certain level of flexibility is necessary. For this reason a possible
tolerance level of up to 7% in
Year 1, 6% in Year 2, and 5% in
Year 3 and subsequent years, was
included in the plan,” she said.
It would appear that some
in Brussels accept that a 100%
discard ban would have been
almost impossible for mixed
fisheries, but not so in pelagic
fisheries where it is felt that individual species can be targeted, or
avoided, if needs be.
It is worth noting that the level
of tolerance allowed in the discard
ban implementation [in mixed
fisheries] may vary in different
Member States, depending on
the type and size of a particular
fishery but that within three years
the maximum allowance will
remain at 5% across the EU.
It was also commented it was
vital for EU policy makers that
the introduction of a discard ban
did not impact on the foundation
corner stones of the Common
Fisheries Policy (CFP) in matters
such as Relative Stability*.
Therefore, the feeling seems to
be that the inclusion of a limited
tolerance, or ‘de minimis’ rule**,
in the discard ban for mixed
fisheries will help make the introduction of a discard ban a less
restrictive burden as some people
believe.
Since the CFP has been introduced in 1983, fishermen in
one Member State have been
concerned that the ban is being
enforced more rigidly in their
country than perhaps the one
‘next door’.
However, it has been made clear
to Fishing News International
each individual Member State is
responsible for the implementation of the discard ban – just as in
the enforcement of fisheries regulations or their quota systems.
The quota system, for example,
is operated differently in many
Member States – but all work
within the EU TACs and quotas
which are decided every year by
the Member States in Council,
and quotas allocated every year.
Some countries choose to allocate the quota to the Producer
Organisations, while others opt
to allocate the quotas directly
to the fishermen. And all are
still entitled to undertake quota
‘swaps’ with other Member States
when it is beneficial to both
parties, obviously as long as the
fishing effort remains within the
allocated framework.
However, it remains well
known by fishermen throughout
the European Union that a big
problem going back many decades
in Europe’s fishing industry is a
fear and lack of trust that there
won’t be a level playing field across
all the EU States when it comes to
implementation and enforcement
of regulation.
As is always the case, there are
‘perceived’, ‘alleged’, and ‘real’
difficulties in enforcement levels and fishermen in most countries
remain unconvinced that the
fisherman of some other Member
State isn’t ‘getting it easier’ than
he is.
But EU spokesperson Helene
Banner said “in almost all cases,
I believe that there is indeed a
level playing field and there is no
reason to think that a discard
ban will not be enforced equally
throughout the European Union’s
fishing industry.”
... but where will all the fish go?
While all the media focus and
celebration was on introduction of a discard ban, Fishing
News International continues
to prompt the question as to
where the now ‘no longer to be
discarded’ fish would go?
While green groups celebrated
a perceived victory when the
ban was announced, not one
NGO enquired from the EU
Commission what would now
happen to this extra fish which
would no longer be dumped at
sea. An EU spokesperson (see
above) agreed that there was “no
easy solution” to this problem.
And it is believed that this is
mainly due to the differences of
the industry in various Member
States.
When one looks at the intensity of the industry in one
country, compared with a small
artisanal fleet of another country,
it becomes clear why a ‘one size
fits all’ approach would be difficult for a total ban on mixed
fishery discards. Denmark for
example is well geared to deal
with discarded fish as it has a
major fishmeal industry and
facilities are already in place in
its ports – then compare this to
Greece where a fisherman has
no capacity to dispose of a single
box of over-quota fish.
“This issue is yet to be decided
in discussions with the Member
States and with the fishermen in
the advisory councils,” Helene
Banner said.
But the question still remains
– how are the fish going to be
disposed of? And as it seems that
the EU won’t allow this fish for
human consumption, is it more
acceptable to see it dumped to
fishmeal or go into a field somewhere, than it is to see it thrown
back into the sea?
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Fisheries sector shows huge promise in Latin America
While aquaculture will
continue to develop,
wild catch investments
are like ‘buying land in
Manhattan’ – a limited
supply and unlimited
demand.
While Latin America may be
one of the most promising and
accessible areas to acquire and
invest in natural resources,
non-Latin companies have been
– with a few notable exceptions
– reluctant to jump into the
fray.
“There is a risk perception that
is higher than reality,” Ignacio
Kleiman, managing partner
with advisory firm Antarctica
Advisors, told Fishing News
International.
But the real risk is raw material security.
“If you’re in a country that
imports 90% of its seafood and
you are a processor, you are in
a strategically risky position,”
he said, adding: “if you purchase
100% of what you process, it’s a
risky situation.”
A handful of Latin American
countries have gained attention for their developing fishing
sectors, chief among them
Ecuador, Chile and Peru.
But so far, outside investors
haven’t looked outside aquaculture, or some of the core species
or companies.
“Take Peru,” Mr Kleiman
said.
“Anchoveta, while it’s been
the species of most interest –
quota values quadrupled in less
than ten years – is not the only
segment in the country where
investors can find returns. With
new quota systems coming
online and improving technology in several fisheries,
opportunities will continue to
crop up, as will companies that
are well-placed to take advantage of those resources.
“You have five to seven very
large guys, but there is a very
large middle market,” he said.
“There are a handful of well
known fishing players, but
those make up a small group
compared to what is out there.”
Mr Kleiman is working with
other investors outside Latin
America, on trade and private
equity, to help them understand
the realities and opportunities
outside their own borders.
Two major obstacles are
slowing down investment,
however. For one, financing.
Lenders across Latin and South
America have been reluctant
to lend to any sector, and the
inherently high risk of fisheries
and aquaculture have made
banks even more leery.
Secondly,
buyers
are
concerned about finding highquality management for the
companies that can bridge the
cultures in their home and
on the soil of the company
acquired.
Still, several notable nonLatin companies have bought
in over the years with some-
times great success, including
multiple Norwegian companies, China Fishery Group,
Clearwater, Nippon Suisan
Kaisha,
Marubeni,
Icicle
Seafoods and others.
The next wave of investors,
by Mr Kleiman’s estimation,
will be private equity groups,
though.
“These guys are used to
investing in resources,” he said.
“This is just one more.”
But he cautioned, investors
need to understand the time
line of their investments.
“It’s a great resource longterm. The fish can be there one
day, and then you can have an El
Nino roll in. This is not a lineal
process.”
Some investors – particularly
private equity investors – have
pictured a three to five-year
investment.
“In some cases that’s worked,”
he said. “In some cases it’s blown
up in their faces.”
A five- to ten-year investment
is more realistic.
Regardless, Kleiman said
there’s no doubt wild catch
is the way to go right now.
Aquaculture will expand to
help meet the world’s seafood
demand over time – but there’s
no doubt that in the meantime
the world can expect price
pressure as demand outstrips
supply.
“My view is that wild catch in
general – Canada, Alaska, South
America – is the best bet,” Mr
Kleiman said.
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June 2014
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As Scottish
Conservative MEP
Struan Stevenson
sees the sun set on
a tough fifteen years
serving the fishing
industry in the engine
room of EU fisheries
policies, he can look
back with pride on his
achievements and in
the knowledge that
the fishing industry
owes him a debt of
gratitude
Cormac Burke
During my recent visit to the
European Union headquarters
in Brussels I had ample opportunity to watch Mr Stevenson at
work and I could not help but be
impressed both by his passion,
dedication and knowledge of
the industry, but also by the
obvious respect that his fellow
EU Fisheries Committee MEP
members had for him.
Even
Commissioner
Damanaki, who was a guest
speaker at the final Brussels’
Fisheries Committee session of
the year (one more remaining
in Strasbourg) took the time to
praise Mr Stevenson’s tireless
efforts on behalf of the industry
– this high praise indeed considering Mr Stevenson and the
Fisheries Committee have on
many occasions been in an
almost state of war with the
Commission over many of its
decisions which the Committee
disagreed with.
Therefore it was in a state of
mixed emotions that Struan
Stevenson sat down to lunch
with Fishing News International
to express his pleasure of
completing a job well done
during his terms of office in the
EU, but also tinged with some
sadness that he would no longer
be a part of the political thrust
of EU fisheries management and
strategies.
Starting with the topic of the
Common Fisheries Policy (CFP),
Struan Stevenson pointed out
that since the CFP first came to
pass almost 15 years ago; this is
the second attempt to find solutions through a reformation.
“In 2004, in the pre-Lisbon
Treaty days, we worked for
months to come up with 100
amendments in fisheries for
CFP reform – and then went
to the then Commissioner,
Franz Fischler, who proceeded
to outright reject 98 of these...
throwing hundreds of hours of
hard work down the drain in the
process.
“But this time around, and
in a new CFP reform, we found
ourselves with more power (due
to the Lisbon Treaty) and that
we had actually become co-legislators,” Struan Stevenson said,
adding that however, this didn’t
just mean that the Committee
had the power to fix all that is
wrong with the current fisheries
management system.
“The discards situation is obviously a big example of this. There
are some 1.5 million tonnes of
fish being discarded in the EU
alone every year – and this is
CHANGING OF THE GUARD: (l-r) Cormac Burke, IntraFish Fishing Publications Editor; Commissioner Maria Damanaki
(outgoing in December); EU Fisheries Committee Scottish Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson (outgoing in May);
Fisheries Committee Spanish MEP Carmen Fraga Estevez (outgoing in May)
EU fisheries
Leaving the EU stage
through no fault of the fishermen
but of the short sightedness of
the first CFP. And now, after
being forced to dump fish for so
many years, fishermen are now
to be prosecuted if they dump it
instead of landing it.
“But the landing obligation (as
part of the new discards ban) will
now focus fishermen to utilize,
by all available means, and to
help fish stocks recover,” he said.
Innovative ideas
While defending the spirit of
the discards ban, and pointing
that continuing to improve on
technical gear measures can
help fishermen to avoid catching
certain species, the outgoing
MEP has also been vocal on steps
that he believes could make the
landings obligation more acceptable.
“For example, if someone has
run out of quota but catches
an extra volume of cod, this
should be landed, and sold, with
50% of the revenue going back
to that fisherman’s Producer
Organisation (PO) to compensate the fisherman who still had
to carry the fish onboard and
return ashore to land it; and 50%
going into a conservation fund
which would be operated by these
Pos to help pay for more technical conservation gear to aid
avoidance of protected species,”
Mr Stevenson proposed, adding
that this system could also be
applied in Mediterranean countries with the money saved going
into freezer facilities to store
the ‘extra’ landing fish. For such
countries he also suggested that
juvenile fish that are caught and
are already dead but are over
quota, these could be sold to the
larger long-liner vessels to help
meet their bait requirements.
Such ideas make up part of a
strategy of proposed additions to
the discard ban/landings obligation regulation which are at this
point remain contained in the
EMF mandate which has yet to
be rubber stamped.
Regional management
When the question of Regional
Advisory Councils and their
apparent lack of power was put
to Mr Stevenson, he was quick to
agree that these RACs were originally intended to play a major
role in bringing information back
from various EU fisheries regions
which would then be used in
consultation in issues such as
TACs and quotas – but that more
often than not, the advice of the
RACs was largely overlooked.
“We, the Fisheries Committee,
agreed that the powers of the
RACs needed strengthening
and that RACs should have
a legislative role rather than
just an advisory one - but the
Commission overruled us. But
hopefully now, as part of the
reformed CFP, the acceptance
that there needs be better regionalisation in management across
the EU will result in RACs being
taken more seriously and will
play a much bigger role in multi
annual plans,” he said.
Struan Stevenson also pointed
out that the data from ICES, the
main advisors to the Commission
on the state of the stocks, is always
at least 12 months out of date.
“This creates a problem in that
the data from a year ago might
show some species or other to
be low, the fishermen in the here
and now can see for themselves
that this same stock is booming.
Some method of reforming the
entire system needs to be looked
at to stop scientific evidence
from 12 months ago determining
the effort that is to be allowed to
be placed on that stock for the
12 months to come - so that we
avoid the situation where there
is two years between the day the
stock assessment began and the
day the current quota restriction
expires.”
“But, on a related subject,
the lack of knowledge by some
sectors of the political fishing
industry can be frightening.
Having recognised how far the
industry has come in returning
so many stocks to a sustainable
level, the only MEP out of 25 not
to pass the fisheries report was
the UKIP representative. This
speaks volumes about those who
want to see the industry progress
and those who simply have their
own agendas as a priority,” he
said.
Damanaki – a success
or a failure?
Despite her quite low rating on
the fishing industry opinion
polls, Maria Damanaki has
performed reasonably well in her
term as Commissioner, Struan
told Fishing News International.
“At the time of her arrival as
the new Commissioner, the EU
fishing industry as a whole, was
in a situation where over 80% of
fish stocks were considered by
ICES to be in danger. Today, with
evidence supported by that same
body, that figure is less than
30%,” he said, but added that
it should be remembered that
to bring this about, fishermen
had suffered greatly and had to
endure decommission of boats
which saw fleet sizes greatly
reduced – a reduction of up to
60% in some cases.
“The most noticeable achievement of Marie Damanaki’s
tenure as Commissioner probably came in her first few months.
She immediately recognised the
fact that micro management
within the EU administration
had bedevilled its management
of the industry for many years
and set about changing this.
Scottish Independence
In a final question in which was
likely to be his last interview
as an EU Fisheries Committee
MEP, Struan Stevenson readily
responded to the question of
Scottish Independence and how
it might impact on the fishing
industry.
“Alex Salmond (First Minister
of Scotland) has been arguing
that Scotland would be a succession state, but it has been made
very clear and there is absolutely
no question that they will be an
accession state, which basically
means “join the queue”, which is
a two year waiting list long.
“To put this into perspective, in
fisheries terms, Croatia joined last
year but only have partial access
to the full EU fisheries budgets –
and this will remain in place until
2016. So a country like Croatia
for example, will equally insist
that any countries to join after
them face a similar stiff transition period, which in some cases
can be up to ten years,” Struan
Stevenson said, adding that it
should also me noted that ALL
new Member States are bound by
EU law to adopt the euro currency
and Scotland would be not be an
exception to this.
“Another point in this is that
acceptance to become a Member
State requires an ‘absolute major’
in Parliament i.e. 28 votes in
favour – something that may not
be so easily achieved,” he said.
Adieu
In a final comment of farewell,
Struan Stevenson said that
although he is retiring from
political life and of many years
toiling in the fishing industry, he
added that it would “be impossible to walk away completely”.
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June 2014
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COVER STORY
A CUT
TOO
DEEP
‘Consolidation’,
‘streamlining
operations’,
‘harnessing
synergies’,
‘maximising
efficiency’ – these
are the buzzwords
the corporate world
uses to justify
closures and job
cuts. Fishing News
International focuses
on the human cost
of decisions taking a
toll on an entire way
of life
Rijuta Dey
Elisabeth Fischer
T
he past few months has
seen several companies
across the world tighten
their belts, and to use
corporate
parlance,
consolidate. The latest example is the ongoing tussle among
buyers vying for Armement
Dhellemmes vessels, sparking
fears of job losses in the port of
Concarneau in northern France
(see news story on page 7).
How can one assess the impact
of increasing consolidation and
streamlining in the global fishing industry, and the impact such
moves have on a small village or
town which is heavily dependent
on it for earning a livelihood?
What happens when all the
boats and the quotas disappear?
What alternatives do governments put in place, if anything?
“In terms of the socio economic
element, there is no argument
that a much larger number of
smaller vessels, supporting
and being supported by coastal
communities provides greater
and wider benefits than a very
much smaller number of larger
vessels,” Jerry Percy of the New
Under Ten Fishermen’s Association (NUTFA) told Fishing News
International.
“This is true in employment
terms, where smaller scale operators provide 65% of catching
related employment in the UK
and the fact that the vast majority
of that employment is indigenous, and in social terms where
the wealth pulled from the sea is
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June 2014
Feature
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2%
Icelandic fishermen
are taxed 6% on
frozen fish
Icelandic fishermen
get taxed only 2%
on fresh fish
LEFT
BRIXHAM: Success stories
among EU fishing ports is
few and far between
ABOVE
VALUE: Market forces drive
the value chain Photo
credit: Dutch Fish Marketing Board
RIGHT
U-10 VESSELS: Coastal
communities across the
world are dependent on
fishing for a livelihood
spread more locally, “ he said.
“In terms of consolidation, I note a number of recent
comments, primarily from north
of the [UK] border, referring to a
potential need to reduce vessel
numbers in light of the landings
obligation.
“The discard ban is not so much
the ‘elephant in the corner of the
room’ as the bloody great thing
rampaging through any attempt
to make sense of what is shaping up to be a disaster for fishers,
large and small,” Jerry Percy told
Fishing News International.
“The bottom line is that with
the ‘choke species’ and related
issues, there is simply not going
to be enough quota to go around the current fleet and the cost of it
will soar. This will drive consolidation and it will certainly not
favour the smaller operators
or even those larger traditional
family vessels that may not be
cash rich enough to buy or lease
quota that in some cases will
undoubtedly far exceed the value
of the fish itself.”
Recent developments across
the fishing industry in Europe
points at this trend, which goes
against what NUTFA fights for.
Take the example of Iceland where the whitefish sector has
been undergoing consolidation
in the last few years.
The recent months have been
characterised by a drastic downsizing of its freezer fleet and
consolidation of its processing industry – a trend set to
continue, industry insiders told
Fishing News International.
“In the short term there will be
more consolidation – not mergers but big companies buying
smaller ones,” Gudmundur
Kristjansson, CEO of fishing
group Brim, told Fishing News
International.
This sentiment was reiterated by others in the industry.
Jan B. Thomsen, an executive
at whitefish trader Danica, is
also expecting more mergers
and acquisitions in the years to
come.
“This might be the way
forward for the Icelandic whitefish sector,” he said.
The most recent example of
consolidation is Icelandic fishing firm Visir, which plans to
consolidate its four plants down
to one and reduce its longline
fleet by one vessel. While the
plan is not yet 100% finalised, a
spokesperson at the company
told Fishing News International
the company is hoping to “get
more competitive”, streamline,
and reduce costs.
A decision on the approval of
the plan will be made by the end
of April.
“We want to consolidate to be
more effective and more competitive,” the spokesperson said,
adding that whitefish prices have
gone down in the past two years
and costs have gone up. “It’s a
natural progression,” he said.
Many have laid the blame of
the changes in the Icelandic
whitefish sector on higher cost
and lower market prices.
“Whitefish was going down the
drain last year, especially in the
frozen-at-sea sector,” one source
at an Icelandic firm told Fishing
News International.
“There’s been fierce competition from Russia and that’s
causing problems for many.”
While prices have gradually
been moving up again, “a lot of
them had been losing money for
a very long time on the frozen-atsea sector”, the source said.
Iceland’s government
‘destroying a valuable fleet’
As a result of the pressure,
the Icelandic freezer fleet has
shrunk significantly as companies have moved to shore-based
processing.
Kristjansson
said
an
“unhealthy tax” on frozen landings, a wage system that favours
processing on land and higher
prices for fresh portions are the
primary reasons for the mass
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move on land.
He criticised the government
for “destroying a valuable fleet”
by putting a 6% tax on frozen fish
while fishermen who land fresh
fish only have to give up 2% of the
catches’ value. “It will take them
[the government] years until
they realise their mistake,” he
told Fishing News International.
He believes moving onshore is
detrimental to quality, which
will consequently mean lower
demand for Icelandic fish.
“The quality for frozen-at-sea
is much higher than land-frozen
and believe me, the Asian market
will prefer frozen-at-sea,” he said.
“Icelanders are now doing a lot of
things wrong.”
The right way, he believes,
would be to invest in bigger
frozen-at-sea trawlers, invest in
factories, as well as marketing to
“serve fish at highest quality all
year round”.
Big companies such as HB
Grandi and Samherji – which
have both frozen-at-sea and
land-frozen factories - will have
those options, the source said.
Others will have to find another
way, find a balance and “change
until they find a way to continue.
Nobody wants to lose money.”
The industry source believes
most of the restructuring in the
Icelandic whitefish fleet is done.
“I think we’ve seen the worst of it,
I think so,” the source said.
All focus is now on consolidating smaller and medium-sized
companies into bigger entities.
“I’m not as keen on it, it’s not
good if most of the quota lines up
in too few hands. I don’t think it’s
good for the business,” the source
told Fishing News International.
“With more consolidation we
will be more streamlined, which
in my opinion is not necessarily
the best thing for Iceland.”
Social responsibility is one
aspect one has to consider, the
source, which is an executive at
a medium-sized whitefish firm,
said. “Virsir is trying to close all
those factories out in the countryside and it’s not good for the
community, not good in terms of
social responsibility,” the source
said.
‘No company should have
such enormous power
and influence over one
community’
Maximum efficiency, of course,
doesn’t come without casualties.
Örn Pálsson, mangaging director
of Iceland’s National Association
Of Small Boat Owners shed light
on the exact cost of such marketdriven moves.
“In these three small fishing
towns, Djúpavogur, Húsavík and
Þingeyri, the fishing company
Visir has been the main employer
for more than ten years,” Örn
Pálsson told Fishing News
International.
“The total number of jobs
provided by this company is 100
to 200. Most of the people are
from families living in the towns
which means the company’s
action could affect up to 1,000
individuals,” he said.
“Up to now there has been no
indication that the company was
thinking of closing operations in
these towns. The decision came
as a total shock to the employees.
“These people have very
little opportunity to find other
employment in these towns. It
is my opinion that no company
should have such enormous
power and influence over one
community. A decision such as
this should be taken in cooperation with the community.
“If this company decides to
close its operations, for whatever
reasons, they have a responsibility to offer the community
the opportunity to buy the fishing rights and fish processing
plants in the community, so that
they can continue to support
themselves.
“There is a clause in the fisheries laws which says that the
[Icelandic] Minister of Fisheries
can prohibit them from taking
the fishing rights away from the
community,” he told Fishing
News International.
“It is very necessary for the
community to be given the
opportunity to buy these fishing rights. If they manage to
buy these fishing rights, then
this result will be a good lesson
learned in the importance of
not having all the employment
opportunities of one community
dependent on one company.
“In Iceland we have over 1,000
small boat owners who are very
powerful and influential in the
fishing industry. For example,
they have 25% of the total cod
catch, 30% of the total haddock
catch and 50% of the total catfish
catch. The total catch last year
for the small boat owners was
83,000 tonnes.
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ICELANDIC FREEZER
TRAWLER: Mounting costs
and changing demand is
forcing the Icelandic freezer-trawler fleet to shrink
RIGHT
SMALL AND MIGHTY:
Streamlining an industry
can have both positive and
negative impacts
“These small boat owners are
very important for many small
fishing towns. Most of the owners
are residents in the towns and
they are not leaving the communities. The fishing rights are
distributed between many small
boat owners, and if one leaves
it does not upset the balance.
What all these three towns have
in common is how close they are
to the fishing grounds and therefore it is very convenient for them
to have small boat operations.
“This means they can make the
most of their quota and every day
they can land the best quality fish
and process it on site. Of course,
in recent years there have been
other examples of large fishing
companies leaving small fishing towns around Iceland which
always create difficulties for the
local communities. Therefore,
it is necessary to have a clause
in the fisheries laws to prevent
one company from leaving the
area overnight with the fishing
rights.”
Jerry Percy gave the example of
the effective demise of Hamilton
Dock in Lowestoft, the UK, to
further illustrate his point.
“This used to be a bustling
place,” he said, “All along the
beaches, both north and south
of the harbour, and all around
the coast there were beach boats,
using small lines for cod inshore
and netting for herring and
sprats. So where are they all?
“Of course the technical
improvements in boats and gear
has made significant changes,
but the massive catches of yester
years not only encouraged fishermen to invest in bigger and
bigger boats but also reduced
stocks to levels where the those
high numbers of small vessels
became increasingly less viable.
“The trouble with consolidation is that boats, quota and
everything that goes with them
[jobs, food supply etc] becomes
just another commodity with
no allegiance to any local area.
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A WAY OF LIFE: Fishing as
a way of life is vulnerable to
several external forces, not
least centralised regulations
PHOTO: Dutch Fish Marketing Board
So boats move and lose any links
and therefore responsibility to
their original base.
“They are increasingly crewed
by non local labour, and are
often held by foreign, or at least
remote owners with no feeling or
allegiance to the coastal communities that began them in the first
place.”
Changing times,
changing demand
The other side of this debate
requires introspection as well.
Cliched as the buzzwords
might sound, they contain a
kernel of truth in them – change
is the only constant, so when a
company needs to take hard decisions with huge impact, it is for
survival and avoiding stagnation.
Laurence Hartwell is a longtime fishing industry insider,
based in the Cornish port of
Newlyn. He points at his hometown as an example of what
happens when a place does not
change with the times.
“The fish auction in Brixham
is a visage of white – white walls,
bright white overalls that the
auctions workers are required to
wear; compared to Brixham, the
Newlyn auction looks so terrible
that I am afraid to put up pictures
of it in my blog,” Hartwell said, in
which he writes about his experience as an industry insider.
“I don’t think people in
Newlyn noticed the world has
changed since 1890 – Plymouth
and Brixham have computer
auctions, while Newlyn does
not,” he said.
Keeping an eye on changing market trends and adapting
accordingly is the only way to
survive in modern capitalism,
and Hartwell gave the example
of fish merchant Nick Howell to
exemplify this point.
“It was 20 years ago when the
power of supermarkets buying
was beginning to be felt,”
Hartwell said, adding: “Whinge
as much as they did, none of the
fishermen or merchants actually talked to the supermarkets,
except for Nick Howell.”
Hartwell gave an example
of the success of rebranding
pilchards as Cornish sardines,
which sells in supermarkets such
as Waitrose and M&S.
“Pilchards had the negative image of being associated
with post-war cheap canned
fish, whereas Cornish sardines
evoked the image of the kind of
fish people have on holiday in the
Mediterranean – when it’s the
exact same fish.”
This, and several other innovations came from Nick Howell’s
stable.
“He was the one to lead the
charge in Newlyn,” he told Fishing News International.
A tough balacing act, between
submitting to the forces of
modern capitalism to survive in
a competitive world, and preserving an age old way of life.
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Quick turnaround layout
T
Quentin Bates
he team at Stride Engineering in the UK port of
Brixham have produced
what the customer
wanted; an innovative deck layout on a Eurocutter
that makes it possible to go from
scalloping to beaming a oneday turnaround. Graham Perkes
recently replaced the third Sacha
Emiel (built in 1991), now sold to
Newlyn as the Karen N, bringing
in a newer boat, built at Visser
in 1999, for skipper Gary Smith
and crew Patrick Birley, Harry
Lowe, Jay Holden and Connor
McLachlan to alternate scalloping and beaming.
“Being able to switch to scalloping makes the quotas last and
the plan is to be scalloping while
the fish are full of roe and the
prices are low – soles are only £8
to £9 a kilo at the moment – and
go back fishing when the prices
rise,” Graham Perkes said.
“This is a first, the only
Eurocutter in England capable
of beam trawling and fitted with
this type of automated scallop
gear,” he said.
Key to this was fitting out the
new Sacha Emiel with a scalloping system that could easily
be winched off and the beams
put back on board, making the
boat capable of switching easily
between methods.
Jason Stride told Fishing News
International that the system
on Sacha Emiel combines the
tipping doors already delivered
to a dozen scallopers, along with
a robust conveyor system that
can be unbolted and lifted off in
two sections each side.
He and his team cut out a
section of Sacha Emiel’s rail
each side, cutting it off close to
the deck and replacing it with
the tipping doors. Tucked away
underneath the conveyors are the
pair of compact hydraulic rams
that power the tipping doors on
each side, and which can lift the
doors from their closed position to fully lifted in only eight
seconds.
He explained that the doors
pivot on 90mm shaft, and are
made from 60mm box section
with 3mm stainless steel on the
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■ 20-22 hauls a day
■ Quick turnaround to
switch to beam trawling
and back
■ Six weeks to fabricate
scallop gear, two weeks
to fit it
inside and with a 4mm stainless
steel outer skin. The dredges are
tipped onto the conveyors, leaving the crew to sort through
the catch as the debris is jettisoned through hatches each
side. The legs are made from
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Two
Weeks
fabrication
time
Weeks to fit
the new deck
gear
LEFT – REFIT: Sacha Emiel
is as good as new after an
extensive refit
RIGHT – HYDRAULIC:
Compact hydraulic rams lift
the tipping doors
150x100x5mm box section, and
the whole system is made with
steel tube and angle iron, with
no rolled metal anywhere.
He added that the small
hydraulic rams are an integral part of the system, as these
allow the conveyors to be fitted
lower and closer in to the side of
the boat than has been possible
before.
“The rams have been developed to this stage now,” he said,
adding that the older rams were
significantly larger and more
cumbersome, practically needing two people to lift them. The
deck is remarkably uncluttered
with the conveyors placed hard
to the rail, leaving plenty of
space and with the fish handling
bins and conveyor in place.
Each side’s conveyors are
made in two sections, so to
lift the gear off, the conveyors can be unbolted from each
other, unbolted from the rails
and craned ashore. The shorter
conveyor can also be lifted onto
the larger one for more compact
storage.
“It’s simple to remove, and the
idea is that the customer can do
this himself. You just have to
go along with a windy gun and
unbolt it all. Then they can bolt
the doors shut and they’re ready
to put the beams back on,” Jason
Stride said. “As everything can
be unbolted, there’s no need to
be paying us to be here cutting
and burning stuff off when they
want to switch to beaming.”
He estimates that it takes
around six weeks to pre-fabricate
the equipment at the workshop,
and a boat like Sacha Emiel can
have its doors and conveyors
fitted in a matter of two and a
half weeks.
“We designed it as we went,”
he said, commenting that while
there are always variations
between boats, what they have
built for Sacha Emiel is close to
being a standard system that can
be pre-fabricated, and the tipping
doors are already in widespread
use on many scallopers.
Hercules Hydraulics fitted the
hydraulic system for the doors
and conveyors, with the whole
process of hauling and shooting
controlled from the wheelhouse,
including the tipping speed,
while the conveyor speed can be
adjusted from the deck.
“It simplifies the whole process
and it’s a safer system as the
crew don’t need to climb up to
get to the gear and there are no
tipping poles, so there’s also less
gear to be towing around. With
the old system they reckon on
14-15 hauls a day, but with these
tipping doors they can get 20-22
hauls in 24 hours instead.”
First of its kind
“This is the first combined
beamer-scalloper with a tipping
system under the English flag,”
owner Graham Perkes said,
commenting that Sacha Emiel
started life as the NG-15 before
becoming LT-34.
“Now she’s BM-181. We
picked her up in IJmuiden and
went straight to Stellendam for
a refit at Padmos,” he said. The
outside was done at Padmos, as
well as some work was done on
the Mitsubishi main engine and
the MCA inclining tests were
carried out there before the boat
was brought back to Brixham to
be finished off.
Julian Blewitt and his painters
went to work under some nightmare conditions, while inside
Bobby Cann’s carpenters fitted
out the wheelhouse consoles to
make space for the package of
electronics supplied by Globe
Marine and Tec Marine.
MaxSea 3D and Sodena plotters have been fitted, along with
a Furuno FCV-295 sounder.
The new radars are a Furuno
RCU-014 and a smaller back-up
radar set, also from Furuno, as
are the twin GP-150 GPS navigators. The autopilot is a Simrad
AP-45 and the Marelec 2 trawl
control system is original, but
has been overhauled and fitted
with new sensors.
The company produces all its
own fishing gear for trawling,
but the scallop gear is supplied
by J. Reid & Son in Brixham.
John Reid told Fishing News
International that all of Sacha
Emiel’s scallop fishing gear is
their range of Exel gear, made to
be as close as possible to being
indestructible.
“We make a special range of
gear, including frames for the
beamers that also go scalloping using conveyors and tipping
doors, and these are virtually
indestructible,” he said. Everything for Sacha Emiel has been
taken from the extra-strength
Exel range and the boat is fishing
with eleven dredges each side.
“We have also supplied
Graham’s other boats and he
seems happy with the longer
lifetime that the Exel gear has
compared to standard gear,” he
said, adding that they expect
a roughly 20% longer working
lifetime than gear made with
conventional steel.
“We have a metallurgist working with us who advises on steel
quality and heat treatments,
and we’re buying our steel from
selected suppliers to get the
right quality.”
“She’s been painted from
the keel up and there’s hardly a
part of the boat anywhere that
hasn’t had attention, there’s
even a new fishroom floor,”
Graham Perkes said, commenting that with much of the
services available locally in
Brixham, a refit of this scale is
a practical option in their own
home port.
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KNOTLESS: Euronete’s
new Eurocross netting
Euronete invests in knotless
Euronete has made a
significant investment
in both resources and
time to develop its
own braided knotless
netting. Now available
under the Eurocross
banner, this is readily
available to European
customers.
Quentin Bates
E
uronete’s
flagship
Premium Plus filaments
are used for making
Eurocross, and Euronete
is the only manufacturer of this kind of netting that
also has full control of the entire
production process in house, from
extruding the filaments to the
finished netting.
“We bought the machine two
years ago and installed it at our
factory in Portugal,” Bondie
Sciarone told Fishing News
International.
“It took a year to build. It’s a big,
sophisticated machine, and that it
took a year to build tells you how
complex it is.”
“Premium Plus is a unique
product and it’s the strongest
high-quality PE material available,
guaranteed to 11.50 grammes
per denier. We’re using this to
produce the strongest netting on
the market,” he said, adding that
Eurocross is intended primarily
for heavy codends.
“The loss of strength in knots
of braided netting is calculated at
25-35%. In reality it’s higher and
can be as much as 50%. But with
knotless netting the loss is only
10% in the cross. It also provides a
smoother surface, so this is much
better for the fish in the codend.”
Euronete is making Eurocross
in twine sizes between 6mm and
12mm and he said that there is a
strong demand for this netting
across that range.
“We’re looking at the heaviest
sizes for the Seattle market, in
11mm and 12mm twine sizes,
and netting in 8mm to 10mm for
Norwegian operators. We’re also
sure that for redfish in the North
Atlantic this could be a very good
option, replacing double knotted
6mm twine in the codends of
pelagic trawls with single 10mm
knotless Eurocross netting –
stronger, lighter and less drag.”
Jeroen Dorenbusch, who has
joined Euronete as part of the
company’s R&D team, said that
the new machine has been a long
project and Ben Wensink, who
has been in charge of it, has been
back and forth to Portugal for the
last two years.
“It’s not a simple process and
we think that Ben must have had
some sleepless nights next to the
new machine,” he said.
“It’s a machine that has eight
hundred bobbins, and unlike
knotted netting, which is a series of
processes with the filements made
into twine and the twine braided
into netting, with the knotless
process, this all happens in a
single process. It makes it a more
complex process, and skips a full
step. It requires a lot of attention
as the tensions on every filament
need to be precise, but Eurocross is
also a fantastic product.”
“There are mesh size limits,
particularly for small meshes in
heavy twine sizes. We can produce
from around 80mm and up,” he
said.
“At the moment we’re producing
Eurocross from Premium Plus, but
we’re looking at Dyneema as well,
and we are very busy producing
Eurocross to fulfil the orders that
we already have, even though this
is a brand-new product,” he told
Fishing News International.
EUROCROSS: Euronete’s Bondie Sciarone
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DYNEEMA:
Standard and
overbraided
Dyneema
ropes from
van Beelen
Netten
Making space to
meet demand
Quentin Bates
N
etting
manufacturer van Beelen has
continued to push
development of its
Dyneema and nylon
netting products, and added
another braiding machine at the
end of last year to keep up with
demand.
Space needed to be made for
new equipment and the factory
has been re-organised to accommodate a new Amita braider.
“This is a big machine, which
is what we needed for making
small mesh netting in heavy
twine sizes.
“We also invested in a new
overbraided capable of overbraiding longer lengths of
protective coverings. In fact, the
whole factory has been given a
facelift,” Caroline van Beelen
told Fishing News International.
“We have been supplying
Dyneema netting to Urk in
particular for the pulse beamers
who are using more and more
double
knotted
Dyneema
netting, and this is stronger for
its weight and has a long working
lifetime, making it better value.
“We’ve also been tying those
knots very tight and working
on the heatsetting to get the
mesh stability right. But the
pelagic business is still very
much centred on nylon with its
high elasticity and this is where
our Enkalon netting stands out.
Enkalon is lightweight and the
high knot strength contributes
to allowing twine sizes to be kept
down, reducing the overall drag
of the gear.
“The netmakers producing
pelagic gear do use Dyneema
as well, but mostly in ropes for
frame lines and bridles.”
“For big meshes in pelagic gear
we are now producing a new
double-braided Power Stealth
rope.
“This is a new generation of
this rope that we have produced
for many years and it’s firmer so
it spools better onto drums and
is less likely to dig in.
“Of course every rope gets
tired with use, but we have seen
already that this lasts better,” she
said, commenting that there is
a fine line between producing a
rope that is firm enough to maintain its profile when wound onto
a drum, but without braiding it
so hard that it can’t be spliced.
“Power Stealth has performed
well on trials, keeping its shape
and with virtually no stretch and
it has worked well in big handspliced meshes,” she said.
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BEAUTY: Vision III steaming at 9.5 knots on engine trials in the Moray Firth in Scotland
Vision III – innovative ideas
on 23m twin rig trawler
FACT FILE
G
David Linkie
ardenstown skipper
Zander Jack recently
took delivery of the
23m twin rig trawler
Vision III BF 191.
Designed and built by Macduff
Shipyards in close liaison with
Zander Jack and MB Vision,
Vision III features a number of
new ideas put forward by the
skipper to enhance the work efficiency and safety of the vessel.
A lifetime’s experience of
fishing and extensive personal
thought about the design and
subsequent operation of Zander
Jack’s first new build has resulted
in a variety of innovations.
While some of these are bigger
and on first impression more
significant than others, overall
they combine well together.
Listening to Zander explaining
the rationale behind the layout
and the thought process that
went into design of Vision III
while walking through the vessel
at Macduff before sea trails was
an interesting experience, and
one that helped to highlight how
much planning the skipper and
yard put into the project.
While based on the same
double chine hull, custom
designed by Macduff Shipyards
to give maximum levels of
propulsion efficiency and fuel
economy on Jacqueline Anne
FR 243, completed nine months
ago, Vision III features almost as
many differences as similarities.
Externally, one of the main
differences is that the wheelhouse on Vision III is positioned
one frame further forward.
When viewed from the stern,
another difference is the presence of two openings in the
bulwarks down to shelterdeck
level in direct alignment with
transom openings leading to the
split near drums on the quarter.
These related features were
incorporated so that torn gear
can be hauled through the upper
transom openings and through
in-line open ended ponds under
the trawl gantry, before being
spread out for repair on a large
area of flush space on the shelterdeck aft of the wheelhouse.
Two compact Rotzler winches,
spooled with 3.5t Dyneena and
mounted on top of the trawl
gantry in-line with sheaves on
the wheelhouse roof will be used
to haul torn gear nets on to the
dedicated repair area.
This arrangement allows a
second set of twin rig trawls
to be worked off the drums for
as long as it takes to mend a
damaged trawl, without the need
to take the gear back down onto
the quarter again when it is time
to haul.
Maximum benefit is gained
from this arrangement by being
able to store spare trawl gear in
the void between shelterdeck
and the raised gratings that form
the net repair area.
Another interesting feature
on Vision III is the availability
of a display in the wheelhouse,
showing the propeller and
nozzle. Provided by an underwater camera mounted on the
hull forward of the propeller
aperture as part of a comprehensive 12 camera CCTV system,
this provision was requested by
Zander Jack to eliminate uncertainties about whether or not the
■ Since entering service
Vision III has been using
180ft twin rig prawn
scraper and fishtail
trawls made by Stuart
Buchan of Fidelis Nets,
Fraserburgh
■ Vision III is also
working 60 fathoms of
32mm diameter Melita
4-strand combination
warp rigged with hard
eyes in two lengths to
connect the twin rig gear
to a 940kg roller clump
and a set of Thyborøn
Type 11 66in trawl doors
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stand us in good stead in years
to come,” he told Fishing News
International.
Vision III replaces Zander
Jack’s previous boat, the 18.6m
Vision II BF 190 built by Macduff
Shipyards in 2004 as Amethyst
BF 19.
Zander bought this twin rig
trawler in 2008 when his son
Zander Jnr took over the 18m
Vision BF 36, which he renamed
Kairos, Greek for ‘supreme
moment’.
Working through Westward
Fishing Company Vision III is
expected to follow a similar
pattern of working 6-day trips,
fishing prawns on a seasonal
basis in the North Sea and the
west coast of Scotland that
proved successful for Zander
Jack on his previous boats.
Vision III has main dimensions of LOA 23m, reg. length
20.10m, beam 7.30m, depth
moulded 4.20m, draft 4.6m and
GT 227 tonnes.
Under the full-length steel
shelterdeck, which is formed as
23
60lt
The number of
boxes of fish
that the new
vessel’s chilled
hold can carry
LAYOUT: The main forward console is stepped back from
the front of the wheelhouse to provide a clear walkway
fan has picked up debris at, in
addition to helping to dislodge
stray fishing gear during a trip.
While heading back to
Macduff after successful engine
and fishing trials, Zander Jack
said that by being willing to
accommodate various requests
every step of the way, Macduff
Shipyards helped him to
customise Vision III to his
personal preferences and specification.
“Enhanced by the superb
workmanship
evident
throughout the boat, Vision III
has more than met my expectations. While it is is bigger than
her predecessor, I was keen that
the boat would retain the efficiency characteristic of a smaller
boat where everything is at hand
and the crew are secure doing
their work.
“Whatever the future holds,
there’s no doubt that Macduff
Shipyards have delivered a stateof-the-art vessel for the job,
which in terms of fishing efficiency, safety and economy will
Feature
an extension of the hull without
a gunwale rail, a watertight fullwidth deckhouse separates the
weathertight
catch-handling
area forward from the nethandling area on the quarter.
An additional bulkhead is
fitted on the maindeck forward
of the catch reception hopper
and the portside ice machine
locker to create a dedicated
winch room.
Vision III is powered by a
Mitsubishi S6R2 T2MPTK-3
main engine supplied by Macduff
Diesels Ltd.
Developing
(480kW
@
1350rpm) and dedicated to
propulsion duties, the main
engine drives a 2300mm
diameter 4-bladed fixed pitch
propeller turning in a fixed
nozzle through a Reintjes WAF
374 7.091:1 reduction gearbox.
The main engine is dedicated
solely to propulsion duties partly
from having the capability to
drive a standby hydraulic pump
net retrieve system off the fore
end using a Dong-I PTO gearbox
c/w standby pumps.
BT Marine of Newton Abbot,
Devon, supplied the matching
propeller and fixed nozzle which
also incorporates a triple rudder
arrangement.
Providing greater steering
thrust, the triple rudder means
that
considerably
smaller
degrees of helm are needed for
course alterations.
This means that less power is
lost turning, helping to maintain a vessel’s speed and reduce
fuel usage.
Vision III uses 60 lts of fuel
an hour at 1040 rpm when typically towing at 2.9-3 knots for
an average door spread of 72
fathoms when fishing in 60 to 70
fathoms.
The owners say that they
are more than satisfied with
this economical level of fuel
consumption, which equates to
The fuel
consumption
per hour is
seen as very
economical
SYSTEM: Notus distance sensors are housed in the roller
clump
1,530lts a day, and 9,000lts for a
6-day trip.
At Zander’s request, Macduff
Shipyards increased the fuel
capacity of Vision III by 25% in
comparison to Jacqueline Anne.
This was achieved by incorporating a 5,150lt double bottom
tank under the fishroom floor,
to augment the 2 x 9,650lts wing
tanks and the 1,500lt service
tank in the engine room to give
total capacity of 25,800lts.
Macduff Shipyards manufactured most of deck equipment
installed on Vision III, including
the 3-drum trawl winch.
Rated 30 tonne core pull, the
winch is fitted with two-speed
drive motors for faster hauling
and shooting of the wires.
Some 225 fathoms of 20mm
diameter Brunton Shaw steel
core Trawlmaster wire supplied
by Jackson Trawls of Peterhead
are spooled on the outer drums,
and 22mm diameter wire on the
middle barrel.
Led up from the drums at
nearly 45 degrees to hooded
rollers, the outer wires run
across the top of the selterdeck
to a second set of sheaves positioned at forward corners of the
wheelhouse from where they are
directed up to hanging blocks on
a conventional trawl gantry.
The middle wire leads under
the wheelhouse floor before
passing over a roller in the
transom rail directly above a
secure track for the safe storage
of the middle roller.
Hardwearing
UHMW-PE
sheathing panels and strips,
supplied by DockGuard, are
secured to outer hull areas in
line with where the trawl doors
and middle roller are worked,
to minimise abrasion, wear and
paint discolouration.
Two sets of 2 x 10t split net
drums are arranged side by side
on the non-watertight wooden
decked quarter in line with the
customary transom shooting
and hauling hatches, the lower
edges of which are fitted with
free turning large diameter
rollers.
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SYSTEM: Skipper Stuart
Poland and E-Catch
engineer Geert Korf on
board UK trawler Albion
E-Log made by fishermen
Originally developed
for its own members
in the Urk fleet, the
E-Catch electronic log
has become one of the
most popular available
Quentin Bates
T
eun Visser, director of
the Urk Fish Auction,
asked if we could come
up with something for
our own members and
we said we could. We thought
it would be easy to develop
something that would be comparable to paper logs and which
would comply with EU legislation,” said Pieter van Slooten,
director of product development engineering at E-Catch,
commenting that they gathered
a group of skippers and asked
them what they wanted as a way
of approaching the issue from a
user’s perspective.
“We’re also owned by the
Fishermen’s Co-operative, which
also owns the Auction,” he said,
commenting that most of those
working on the E-Catch and
E-Landing systems are former
fishermen, which gives them a
vital insight into the difficulties
that fishermen face and means
that they can appreciate their
requirements.
“This is a small community
– if something goes wrong the
skippers all know where I live,”
he said, adding that in the first
couple of years of E-Catch’s
development, there were plenty
of phone calls at awkward
hours, something that no longer
happens now that the bugs have
been ironed out of the software.
E-Catch is available at a third of
the price of its nearest competitor, and Dutch fishermen were
also given subsidies when the
legislation was introduced, giving
them the cost of the hardware
and a three-year maintenance
contract to start off.
“That was just the fishermen
here in Urk, then there were
fishermen from other parts of
Holland who were interested.
Then the Belgians came to us and
we agreed to supply the whole
of the Belgian fleet, and then
came the Anglo-Dutch vessels,”
he explained, adding that to go
into the UK market required
type approval as well as adapting
E-Catch to different methods of
fishing and selling.
“What was key to the development was that we listened
to the fishermen, so feedback
from users went straight into
the software. In fact, the last
few years have been hectic, with
a lot of new features added and
there have been several new
releases each year – but now we
are committing to only one new
release a year.”
As well as mandatory
reporting, E-Catch also allows
reporting to third parties, and
from a fairly straightforward
initial set of ideas, it developed
into a system capable of handling
weather data, mail, and other
requirements such as weighing
system integration.
Pieter van Slooten said that the
market is an odd one, as there
are now no new customers to be
had – it’s purely a replacement
market – and he said that they
have never yet lost an installation
to competing supplier.
A development from E-Catch
is E-Landing, which Pieter van
Slooten describes as a back
office system for vessel opera-
tors, initially envisaged as a way
of handling landing declarations
more quickly and efficiently.
“Operators had to log in to the
hub separately for each vessel
and it’s a cumbersome process
that takes at least half an hour
for every one, so we developed
a system that allows this to be
done in a few minutes instead.
Then we extended the function-
ality so E-Landing also handles
sales notes and settlings, as well
as crew payroll, so it has become
a complete back office tool,” he
said.
“E-Landing also processes
E-Catch data, as well as data from
other e-log systems for those who
are dealing with several vessels in
a fleet that might have more than
one e-log system in use.”
LEADER: E-Catch is now the UK market leader
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CATCH: Scottish vessels landed a total of 366,400
tonnes of fish with a value of £429 million in 2013
Scottish landings
volume stable but
seafood values plummet
Cormac Burke
P
rovisional
statistics
published
recently
by Scotland’s Chief
Statistician show that
the overall quayside
value of sea fish and shellfish
landed by Scottish vessels in
2013 decreased by 8%, compared
with 2012. However, the quantity
of fish landed remained stable
having increased by less than
half a percent.
Scottish vessels landed a total
of 366,400 tonnes of fish with a
value of £429 million.
The decrease in value of fish
landings in 2013 is a result of
reductions in the overall value of
all species types. The very slight
increase (0.5%) in overall volume
landed was a result of increased
demersal landings counterbalanced by decreased shellfish
landings:
■ Pelagic – value decreased by
eight percent, volume slightly
increased by 1%.
■ Demersal – value decreased by
three percent, volume increased
by seven percent.
■ Shellfish – value decreased by
13%, volume decreased by 10%.
In 2013, the number of active
fishing vessels based in Scotland
was 2,026, 20 fewer vessels - one
percent less than the previous
year.
There were 595 over 10m
vessels in the Scottish fleet, a
reduction of three vessels from
2012. The majority (62%) of
over 10m vessels are shellfish
vessels. This is the only over 10
metre vessel group to increase in
number, with nine new vessels.
During 2013, the number of 10
metre and under vessels fell to
1,431 – a decrease of 17 vessels
from 2012. Nine vessels left the
10 metre and under nephrops
trawlers fleet and nine vessels
left the creel fishing fleet, representing a loss of 11% and one
percent from each fleet respectively.
Quota uptake was high in 2013
for the major pelagic fish stocks
important to Scottish fisheries.
Uptake exceeded 96%.
Uptake of quota for demersal
species in the North Sea varied.
Cod, haddock and saithe uptake
all exceeded 98% whilst whiting
reached 93%. However, uptake of
monkfish and plaice were lower,
at 63 and 84% respectively.
In comparison to 2012, uptake
was similar for North Sea monkfish but uptake of plaice was six
percentage points lower due to an
increase in quota, not a decrease
in landings.
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COLD TRAIL: New
study says between
20 and 32% of all
wild caught seafood
brought into the US
was caught illegally
US importing more than $1.3
billion in illegally caught fish
FACT FILE
A
IntraFish.com
new study claims
the United States is
importing at least
$1.3bn worth of illegally caught seafood.
The report, ‘Estimates of illegal
and unreported fish in seafood
imports to the USA’, published
by Marine Policy, says between
20-32% of US seafood imports
annually are illegal. Valued
between $1.3bn and $2.1bn, the
imports represents between
4-16% of the global illegal fish
catch.
“This study reinforces what the
fishing industry, governments
and conservationists have been
saying for a long time: illegal fishing is a major global problem and
threatens the long-term health of
our oceans and the livelihoods
they support,” said World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Vice President
for Marine Conservation Michele
Kuruc.
“While the very nature of illegal fishing makes it difficult to
quantify, this research brings
new attention to the immense
scope and scale of the problem.”
The authors, funded in part by
WWF, are calling for far greater
transparency in the highly
complex seafood supply chain
either through greater monitoring tools, technological advances
and or government regulation.
“The U.S. needs to continue
to build momentum on recent
efforts to end illegal fishing,
Kuruc said.
“As one of the planet’s largest consumers of seafood, the
US has an enormous impact on
the global seafood trade and the
obligation to drive international
progress to stop illegally caught
fish from entering it.”
While governments, NGOs,
and the fishing industry have
made some progress combating illegal fishing through
government-led and voluntary
programs including Marine
Stewardship Council (MSC)
certification, the problem is far
from solved, WWF said.
As a next step, the NGO is
urging the federal government to
develop procedures requiring all
seafood sold in the United States
to be fully traceable to verifiably legal sources, making it more
difficult for illegally caught fish to
enter supply chains undetected.
Supply chain case studies
in the report are presented for
tuna, wild shrimp and Chinese
re-processed Russian pollock,
salmon and crab imported to the
USA.
Introduction
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a significant
global problem, jeopardising
ecosystems, food security, and
livelihoods around the world.
As a protein-hungry planet
faces an unprecedented crisis of
overfishing – 85% of all commercial stocks are now fished up to
their biological limits or beyond
– fishing practices that violate
domestic or international laws,
evade reporting requirements, or
simply escape management altogether pose a major challenge
to the sustainable use of ocean
resources, the report said.
IUU fishing distorts competition, harms honest fishermen,
weakens coastal communities,
■ Between 20 and 32%
of wild-caught fish US
imports are illegal;
■ Opaque supply chains
foster illegal seafood,
especially Chinese
reprocessing;
■ Few instruments
inhibit illegal US seafood
imports or trade;
■ Improved chain of
custody documents
may inhibit entry of
illegal seafood products;
■ Amendments to
the U.S. Lacey Act
may prevent illegal
seafood products being
marketed.
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Feature
45%
30 country/
species
combinations
were examined
for this report
DODGY CATCH: Tuna from Thailand had the highest
estimated volume of illegal and unreported sourced fish
promotes tax evasion, and is
frequently
associated
with
transnational crime such as
narcotraffic and slavery at sea.
Moreover, the total extractions
of living resources from marine
ecosystems are needed in order
to understand the sustainability
of fisheries both in terms of ecology and economics since catches
Of the 30
countryproduct
combinations
investigated,
tuna from
Thailand had
the highest
volume of IUU
sourced fish
reported to national and international agencies (FAO) exclude
IUU, discards and often smallscale and recreational fishery
catches .
Recent estimates of IUU extent
by country and region have
revealed substantial IUU world
wide between 13% and 31% of
reported catches, and over 50%
in some regions.
This illegal catch is valued at
between $10 and $23.5bn per
year. The 1995 FAO Code of
Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the 1992 UN Agenda 21
(chapter 17) initiated an international framework for addressing
this problem, recently termed
‘fishery crime’.
Attempts at control have
focused on fishery management
through improving monitoring,
control, and surveillance (MCS),
through a UN Port State agreement to restrict chandler support
for suspect vessels, and by
national and Interpol tracking
of suspicious vessels including
transshipment at free ports.
These activities have substantially improved the prospects for
addressing IUU fishing and associated crimes, but significant
profits are still being made from
illegal fishing.
Fishery markets, increasingly
global, and, despite increasing
use of chain of custody documentations, notoriously opaque
at the distribution level, provide
another opportunity to reduce
profits from illegal fishing by
isolating trade.
Therefore, there is a growing need to understand not only
where IUU fishing takes place
but also where and how illegal
products ultimately enter the
markets, the report said.
Market demand
The United States and Japan have
been essentially tied in recent
years as the largest single country import markets for seafood,
both importing between 13%
and 14% of the global total.
The EU is the largest overall
market, importing about 27% of
the total. Together these three
markets account for about 55% of
global seafood imports.
Seafood consumption in the
USA totaled about 2.1m tonnes,
second only to China representing 6.8 kg per capita in 2011.
American consumers spent an
estimated $85.9bn on fish products in 2011, with about $57.7bn
spent at foodservice establishments, $27.6bn at retail, and
$625m on industrial fish products. Tuna, crab, pollock and cod
are the most consumed wildcaught seafood products.
Top ten exporters
According to NOAA, in
2011 roughly 90% of seafood
consumed in the U.S. was
imported, and half of this was
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wild-caught. The percentages for
both imports and wild caught
origin are estimates by NOAA.
According
to
personal
communications with NOAA
staff, no detailed examinations of
the origin of imports to the USA
have been conducted by NOAA,
USDA or others.
At least two factors complicate efforts to calculate these
numbers. First, NOAA estimates may not fully account for
“re-imported” fish products –
i.e., products of U.S. origin that
are exported for processing and
then re-imported into the U.S.
market.
However, since illegal fish
products are often mixed into
supply chains at the processing stage, the foreign locus of
processing makes it appropriate to consider even re-imported
products as “imported” for
purposes of this paper.
Second, U.S. trade data often
does not differentiate between
farmed and wild-caught catches
entering the USA market and so
additional work was undertaken
to estimate this proportion from
the key supplier countries.
The majority of these wildcaught imports to the USA
are from ten countries: China,
Thailand, Indonesia, Ecuador,
Canada, Vietnam, the Philippines, India, Mexico, and Chile.
These top ten countries (out of
a total of 120 countries exporting fish products to the U.S. that
year) represented approximately
80% of 2011 seafood imports to
the USA by volume and value.
Total imports of edible seafood
products to the U.S. in 2011
were 2,379,940 tonnes, valued at
$16.5bn.
Estimation of illegal caught
fish imported
Estimates of the total level and
value of illegally caught fish
entering the market in the USA
as imports are estimated using
the following scheme:
1. For each of the top ten countries as sources of imports, the
top three wild-caught seafood
products (by species groups and
volume) exported to the United
States were identified, resulting
in 30 import streams identified
by country and species group.
The species groups were
defined by the statistical categories available in the NMFS trade
database. In two cases (Ecuador and Mexico), the top three
products exported to the USA
included shrimp. Since data from
NMFS do not distinguish wild
from farmed shrimp, additional
analyses were performed to estimate the proportion attributable
to wild shrimp in each case.
2. For each of the 30 country
and species product categories,
the originating fisheries were
identified. Although no precise
definition of a “fishery” was
employed (again, due to the form
and organisation of available
This accounted
for 45% of
wild-caught
fish imports to
the USA
DOMINANT: Shrimps represented 24% of imports into the
US by volume and 31% by value in 2011
data), fishery sources were
generally identified by some
combination of vessel nationality, geographical location and
jurisdiction of fishing, gear type,
and target species.
3. Information was gathered
and analysed regarding IUU
practices associated with the 30
country/species product categories and their source fisheries.
Based on multiple sources and
data types, quantitative estimates
of IUU fishing were assigned.
4. Combining data from
multiple sources, and using the
statistical method applied in
widely accepted studies of global
IUU prevalence, a range of IUU
infection was estimated for each
of the top three exports for each
of the top ten countries, using a
95% confidence interval.
These ranges were then
combined to produce a tradeweighted average of IUU
infection for each of the top
30 country/species product
categories.
5. Considering that the 30
country/species
combinations examined for this report
account for 45% of wild caught
seafood imports to the U.S. and
appear likely to be broadly representative of IU levels across all
import categories, total IUU
infection in US wild seafood
imports was calculated via linear
extrapolation.
Results
From each of the top ten countries exporting to the U.S., the
top three wild-caught products exported to the U.S. in
2011 comprised more than 0.5m
tonnes of seafood worth $3.7bn.
The results from this analysis
of wild-caught imports indicate
that 20–32% by weight of wildcaught seafood imported by the
United States in 2011, with a
value between $1.3bn and $2.1bn
(or 15–26% of total value of wildcaught seafood), were from illegal
and unreported (IU) catches.
Shrimp represented 24% of
imports by volume and 31% by
value in 2011.
Although shrimp comprise
the largest category of seafood
imported to the U.S. in volume
and value, such products were
excluded from the analysis for
Thailand, China, Indonesia and
Vietnam as much was of farmed
origin.
There is some evidence that
wild-caught shrimp is on occasion illegally exported mislabeled
as farmed shrimp.
Tuna from Thailand had the
highest estimated volume of illegal and unreported sourced fish
(32,000 tonnes to more than
50,000 tonnes, representing 25
to 40% of total tuna imports
from Thailand).
This was followed by illegal
and unreported pollock from
China with an estimated volume
of potentially more than 30,000
tonnes (30 to 45% of pollock
imports from China).
Wild-caught salmon imports
from China were the next largest illegal import (28,000 tonnes,
representing 45 to 70% of salmon
imports from China).
Tuna from the Philippines,
Vietnam, and Indonesia represented the next largest illegal
import with 25,000 tonnes (up to
35% of all tuna imported to the
USA in 2011).
Other illegal fish imports
higher than the 20–32% average were octopus from India
(35–50%), snapper from Indonesia (35–50%), crabs from
Indonesia (20–45%), tuna from
Thailand (25–40%), wild-caught
shrimps from Mexico (25–40%),
and Indonesia (20–35%), wildcaught shrimp from Ecuador
(25–35%), and squid from India
(20–35%).
Imports from Canada all had
estimated levels of illegal and
unreported fish imports below
10%, with lobster and herring
representing the lowest (2–5%).
Imports of clams from Vietnam (5 to 10%) and toothfish
from Chile (5 to 7%) also had 10%
or less sourced from illegal or
unreported fishing.
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DUTCH FLEET
STANDOFF
Strikes and protests Quentin Bates
are nothing unusual,
imes have been hard for
but the sight of
the groundfish fleet. First
the entire Dutch
there was the spiral of
rising fuel prices that hit
groundfish fleet tied up
the previously profitable
for two weeks breaks but fuel-hungry beam trawl
some very new ground. sector very hard, resulting in
The movement started some very significant changes
the fleet quickly diversified
in Urk as vessel owners as
into seine netting, twin-rigging
decided against going and more economic variations
to sea, reasoning that of the traditional beam trawl,
the drop in fish prices has
fish prices were too low but
been a killer blow, falling by
to make it worthwhile, around a third over then years.
As things came to a head at
and the rest of the fleet
the beginning of the year, it
rapidly followed their was clear that even with less
example fish available, prices were still
T
painfully low. According to
Pim Visser at VisNed, this is
action that the fishermen have
organised themselves.
“The organisations aren’t
involved in this at all. If we were,
then the competition authorities
would also be involved, but if
it’s individual fishermen talking
among themselves then there’s
nothing they can do.”
He said that capacity is now
capped under the new Common
FIsheries Policym (CFP) to
ensure that supply does not
outstrip processing capacity, but
even with volumes far short of
maximum capacity, prices have
been extremely low for plaice in
particular.
Cees de Boer of Urk-based
Osprey Trawlers said that
having the entire Dutch groundfish fleet tied up for two weeks
demonstrates the desperation of
fishermen who have seen average prices drop by more than a
third over the last decade, while
costs have continued to spiral
upwards.
“Prices at the auction had been
down to €0.70 per kilo for small
plaice. We had support from
the sole fishermen who are also
seeing low prices of less than
€6 per kilo for sole at the same
time that the rental price for sole
quota is approaching €2.50 per
kilo. We also had support from
French and Belgian fishermen
who have the same problems of
low fish prices that we are struggling with,” he said.
“For many of the fishermen it
has become a case of stopping
fishing and going bankrupt, or
staying at sea and going bankrupt in a year,” he said, adding
that a study carried out by a
financial consultant concluded
that just to break even, the Dutch
fleet needs to have an average
price of close to €1.50 per kilo –
a price that does not return any
profit but which simply covers
costs.
At a public meeting held in
the fish auction at Urk, owned
by the town’s fishermen, it was
agreed that the fleet would go
back to sea in the wake of some
protracted negotiations behind
the scenes “to thrash out some
common ground”.
Plaice has been at the heart of
the problem for the Dutch fleet,
with prices falling just as plaice
have become so abundant across
the North Sea.
“There used to be a big
market for plaice in the past,”
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Sole price drop
over three
years
New pulse
trawl licences
NEELTJE: One of
Osprey’s UK-registered
vessels
Johan Nooitgedagt of Nederlandse Vissersbond told Fishing
News International, explaining that through the years when
quotas were curtailed, a part of
this market was lost as producers and consumers sought out
and found other products. But
since plaice have again become
abundant, it has become painfully clear that this market is not
easily regained.
“We have to do a lot of development on plaice to win back
this market from other species.
Now it’s a lot easier to find panga
or tilapia on supermarket shelves
and winning back a market share
for plaice is a challenge, but also
an opportunity,” he said.
“There has been too much fish
and market principles take effect,
so prices fall. Processors have
had a lot of stock in frozen storage from last year when the best
quality fish was available. Then
there is the problem of competition with cheap farmed species
such as pangasius and tilapia, as
well as imported rock sole and
yellowtail that are cheap fish.
“Some processors have been
under close scrutiny by the
banks who appear to have made
them reduce their stocks,” Pim
Visser said.
“When a processor reduces
stock, he isn’t going to be buying.
Then there are alternative fish
species. We see large volumes of
wild-caught flatfish coming onto
the market here – sold as ‘Pacific plaice’, and it’s a good quality
flatfish, which comes with an
MSC logo so supermarkets like
it – but it’s fish caught in huge
volumes on the other side of the
world and the price is very low.”
These cheaper alternatives are
threat to the recovery of a plaice
market for the Dutch industry,
and both the wild-caught flatfish and the farmed alternatives
originate outside the EU.
“We are also prepared to push
for an import tax on fish from
outside the EU and Dutch politicians are certainly ready for
this,” Urk vessel operator Louwe
de Boer commented.
Agreement
Louwe de Boer explained the
rough breakdown in plaice
sizes, with sizes 1 and 2 going to
the fresh market. Size 3 is split
between fresh and frozen, while
around 80% of size 4 plaice
finds its way to frozen production. “One problem is that there
has been too much small plaice
on the market and this has had
a serious impact on prices,” he
said, commenting that under
the agreement reached following the two-week layup, the fleet
has agreed to reduce landings of
small plaice.
“We’re working on putting
a 100% transparent system in
place,” de Boer said.
“We all have electronic
logbooks, so as well as sending
reports to the authorities every
24 hours, these also go to the
auctions. Buyers see every morning what’s going to be available
– not boat-by-boat figures, just
an overall total every morning,
and every Friday morning we
undertake to have at least fifteen
vessels’ catches available at Urk,”
he said, explaining that this is
a problem for Urk in particular
as, due to the auction’s distance
from the landing ports on the
coast, landings reach Urk later
in the day than at other auctions,
peaking at around midday.
“This is what we have agreed
in the short term,” Louwe de
Boer said.
“In the longer term we have
agreed to work on a system that
will enable all parties to cover
their costs and to keep out the
cowboys from going below the
lowest acceptable price level.
Because at the moment we’re no
longer covering our own costs
and to keep going we need to
have a minimum average price
of €1.48.
“We also have to work on a
plan for soles and other species
as well, and we have to join
FACT FILE
■ Fish prices
began to fall
around 1998-2000
■ Fuel prices
started to rise
around the same
time
■ North Sea plaice
are abundant, but
the market has
been hit by cheap
imports
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to supply a product that both
consumers and retailers can
trust. We glaze our fish as it is
frozen, but only to a maximum
of 10%. The supermarkets ask for
that as it improves shelf life in
cold storage, but if they ask for
more we say no and it’s common
for 50-60% glazing in some
markets,” he said, adding that it
was also clear the supermarkets
they deal with were looking for
trustworthy products, not least
in the aftermath of the horse
meat scandal across Europe that
has boosted demands for product integrity.
“It has become the most
important factor. But if you tell
your story the right way, the
consumer will accept it – even
with a higher price. Consumers are far more critical than
they were twenty years ago. They
demand sustainable fish, so
that’s what we have to supply.”
GROUND
CONTACT:
Osprey have
gone for roller
clumps and
flying doors
to minimise
ground contact
forces with fishermen in other
countries because if we don’t act,
it will end in disaster. We have to
be realistic. The aim is profitable
fishing for everyone. We need to
break the negative spiral.
“We know it’ll take time but
agreement is virtually unanimous. We need the merchants,
but they also need the fishermen
and we are ready to set out our
position to our colleagues across
Europe. We see the same with
plaice that we sell for €5 fetching €25 on a supermarket shelf.
Fish is sold at a premium price,
which isn’t reaching the fishermen. The money is being made
somewhere, but it’s not here.”
The following morning much
of the fleet was back at sea, many
having sailed the night before as
soon as news of the agreement
reached in Urk was passed on.
Now there’s a tentative armistice
and the coming months will
show how well the agreement
works as the summer plaice
season when the best quality fish
are caught gets underway.
“We used to think that the
clock was a perfect tool, and it
was,” one fishermen commented, adding that times have ‘Plan
B’ in the wings, in case things
go wrong again – and this time
the option would to abandon the
traditional auction route altogether and establish a sales office
to sell catches direct to processors. It’s a drastic option and
one that would overturn much
of the structure of the way fish
has been sold in Holland, but it
is clear that desperate times call
for drastic measures.
RADICAL: Cees de Boer with the 1000mm meshes
compawlers’ gear
Diversifying
Two Urk companies in particular have already moved away
from the traditional model.
Ekofish refitted its beam trawlers as seine netters and twin
riggers, obtained MSC certification and embarked successfully
on a programme of direct sales,
mainly of fresh fish.
Osprey Trawlers, a long-established family company, went
down a similar route, but with
the focus on frozen rather than
fresh fish, having its fish filleted
and frozen by a local processor
and stored. The fish is then sold
to supermarkets in Switzerland,
Germany, Holland, Austria,
Belgium and Italy, and Cees de
Boer said that three more countries are being added to the list
this year. The Osprey strategy
has been to deal with supermarkets, as both Osprey and Ekofish
have left traditional methods of
selling their fish and for both
MSC certification has been a
key point in their changes of
direction.
“We have our own quality
control with reports going to
the boats every week. We went
for MSC certification in 2008
and were MSC certified in 2010.
We also involved the WWF and
the North Sea Foundation in the
process right from the beginning. So now we have MSC
certification, and we deliver on
time, with full traceability and
information on the time and
place the fish were caught,” Cees
de Boer said.
“The boat with the best quality gets a prize at the end of the
year. To achieve this it’s crucial
to involve the crew with quality.
“We don’t fish for plaice when
the quality is lower, so we don’t
fish plaice when they are thin
and with roes between the end
of November and the middle of
April at the earliest. June, July
and August are the best time
when we have top quality plaice
and that’s when we catch out
plaice so that we can supply the
best quality frozen plaice all year
round.”
He explained the company
goes back to the war years when
his father started the business
with a sailing vessel to fish on the
IJsselmeer, and it grew rapidly in
the years after the war when fish
was at a premium as a vital food
source and the first steel fishing
vessels began to appear.
Times were good right up
to 1998-2000 when fish prices
began to fall and fuel prices
started to creep up to their
present dizzying levels, which
was when they began diversifying away from beam trawlers
with their high fuel costs and
into twin rig trawling and seine
netting.
“We had to look for a more
economical way to catch plaice.
We had two boats built in Spain,
Ansgar and Louwe Senior that
were built as twin riggers to
begin with but we added the fly
shooting capacity during the
construction. We saw the difference immediately with a 50%
reduction in fuel consumption for more or less the same
amount of plaice,” he said.
“We needed control and now
we have the whole process with
fish tracked from the moment it
is caught to the consumer’s plate,
and the key to this is being able
Electric
The decision by the Dutch
Ministry to grant an additional
40 licences for electrical fishing
is also set to cause changes and
there is an unspoken subtext to
the issue that is closely linked to
the discards issue, as pulse trawl
discards are relatively low.
But Johan Nooitgedagt does
not believe all of these licences
will be used.
“We had forty licences, and
now there are forty more,” he
said, adding that while the pulse
gear has becoming more efficient, the primary reason for
using it is to save fuel rather than
to catch more – although there
is no doubt about the effectiveness of pulse trawling for sole.
Pulse gear is also in use on a
small number of boats for fishing
shrimp, although this remains
fraught with difficulties as more
research is needed and there is
a pressing need to demonstrate
that the method is not damaging
for fishing in Natura 2000 areas.
“We need to be able to show
that pulse trawling for shrimp
is not damaging to the coastal
zones,” he said, adding that for
the larger vessels, the problem is
going to be quota.
“Last year there was a Eurocutter that landed 160 tonnes of sole
and a large beamer that landed
380 tonnes. That’s a trawler that
would normally have a 50-60
tonnes of sole catching between
five and six times its normal
quota.
“The question for those
wanting to go for pulse trawling is whether or not they can
secure the quota to do it before
the banks will look at it. These
owners are going to have to
secure quota first and it’s a problem that the POs are going to
have to deal with.”
Quota for sole has already
been going fast. By mid-March
a third of the year’s quota for
sole had already been landed
and sole quota prices have risen
sharply. The question is where is
the quota going to come from to
keep these extra pulse beamers
fishing?
Johan Nooitgedagt predicts
that the outcome will be fleet
consolidation, and he told Fishing News International the likely
outcome will be the fleet being
reduced to around 50 beam
trawlers and a number of smaller vessels.
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DEMAND: Sole
prices are still
relatively low,
while the quota
price is rising
“Pulse trawling is doing
the job of all the multi-annual fleet reduction plans,” he
said, commenting that pressure on the fleet fishing sole and
plaice generally filters down to
the shrimp sector as capacity
increases there, leading to price
fluctuations.
“Fish mortality is right down
and stocks are up, so fish are
easily caught and we have good
supplies of plaice and especially
sole,” Pim Visser commented.
“But the price of sole has
dropped 40% in three years, and
that’s extreme.”
Discards
“We have the pressure of the fuel
price and the gloom of the infamous discard ban,” Pim Visser
said.
“In itself it’s not a bad idea,
but when you look at the details
of it, then you can see just how
complex it is and what an enormous task we face. It’s a great
success
for
Commissioner
Damanaki and her people, but
when they are gone then the
industry will still be struggling
with the reality of this ill-considered decision.”
The Dutch and Belgian industries have been awarded €4.50m
towards research that will
go primarily to IMARES and
ILVO for a range of research,
including best practices, minimising discards and maximising
survival, as well as working on
handling discards. The pelagic and demersal sectors have
joined forces on this and looking
at options for selectivity, storage on board of minced fish and
possibilities of small fishmeal
plants.
“We’re working on more selectivity and survivability projects,
as if you can demonstrate that
discards have a high survival
rate, then you can get an exemption form the discard ban. So we
are working on a 50:50 project
that aims to reduce discards 50%
and to provide a high survival rate for what is discarded, as
we feel it’s better to help 50%
survive than to make sure we
kill 100%.”
Lighter and smaller gear
“Fishing had always been about
catching as much as possible in
the shortest time. We never even
thought about ground contact.
Now the thinking is very different,” Cees de Boer of Osprey
Trawlers said.
“It’s still about catching our
fish, but without taking by-catch
of small and non-target fish and
with minimal ground contact.
Gear is smaller and lighter and
trawl doors have been getting
smaller as well. In 2012 we
applied for a grant project and as
a result we are running trials all
through 2014,” he said.
“This is an old company and
we have a lot of knowledge of
nets here – we make all our own
gear here,” he said, adding that
the company’s boats have gone
from fishing with trawls rigged
on 220m groundropes to 47 to
65m groundropes today, all for
much the same catches of plaice
taken with these smaller and
more efficient nets.
There are some radical measures in the Osprey gear on
the net loft floor as Cees de
Boer went through the range
of ideas that include using
small-diameter
double-knotted Dyneema netting from
van Beelen to replace heavier netting, substituting 3mm
Dyneema for conventional 5mm
PE in forward sections of trawls
and also using 2mm Dyneema
netting in codend top sheets,
while retaining PE in the lower
sheets.
These are primarily measures
to reduce fuel consumption,
making gear lighter, while the
200mm and 400mm sections in
the top sheets of some trawls are
designed to allow smaller fish to
escape. A more radical arrangement that is being tested is a
13m section of 1000mm mesh
in the top sheet, designed to let
everything escape except plaice
that are thought to follow the
bottom sheet all the way back
into the tunnel and codend.
“We had identified the section
behind the headline as the area
that produces most drag, so this
is where we put the 1000mm
meshes, with a narrow section of
normal mesh behind the headline and the large mesh section
following that. It’s a dramatic
escape panel. If it works, it could
help us get away from using
3.50m square mesh panel that
we have ahead of the codend.
“We have also decided to
switch to flying doors and have
bought four sets of Thyborøn
pelagic doors, replacing their
older Thyborøn demersal doors,
and roller clumps. In the past we
had always used chain clumps,
but roller clumps should be less
damaging and we aim to keep
the doors around one metre off
the bottom,” he said, adding
that they have also invested in
Simrad systems to monitor the
trawl doors.
“We tested a system last year
with one boat, using the latest
PX sensors supplied by WNL,
to test how to keep the doors off
the bottom and the results were
what we had expected to see.”
The trawls have also been
refined in co-operation with
a Danish netmaker, with the
sections cut to keep the mesh
better open and improve water
flow, with the gear also optimised to reduce headline height
from between 4-5m to around
1.30m as a measure to concentrate on plaice while avoiding
cod.
“This is a project that will run
through 2014 and due to finish
in 2015. There’s still much to do
and there are still more ideas to
be tested as part of it,” he said,
adding that the discard ban is
also coming. We need to think
about how to deal with this, but
the best solution is not to have
the discards to begin with,” Cees
de Boer said.
“We’ve changed codend mesh
sizes, from 115mm to 135mm
and we see the difference already
in the rate of discards, although
we expect that we could lose
some of the size 4 plaice,” he
admitted, adding that a better
gear spread is also a help.
“When the gear opens wider,
we get bigger fish, so a better
gear spread means more of the
larger sizes of plaice.”
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PRODUCT NEWS
New
generation of
netting
Garware-Wall’s new SNG twine
has been developed specifically to reduce drag, and the
company’s Amit Kulkarni said
special production techniques
have given SNG – Sapphire New
Generation – a low stretch that
provides dimensional stability of
the gear as a whole.
“The compact nature of SNG
means ingress of mud is reduced,
and as this is a rounder, stronger
twine, smaller diameters are
needed.
“This results in less drag and
lower fuel consumption. or
gives the skipper other options
of towing faster with the same
gear for the same fuel consumption. You also have the choice
of making the gear bigger with
a wider spread to increase the
catch,” he said.
“The tenacity of the yarn is not
the only measurement of twine
performance. Strength at the
knot is also critical as this is the
weakest point of any section of
netting.”
Skipper Egil Skarbøvik of
Norwegian trawler Ramoen has
been a convert to Garware-Wall’s
SNG netting from the outset.
“Generally
4mm is the
standard size used in trawl
fishing, and with SNG, we are
able to go down to 2.60mm,
which is a significant reduction,“
Skarøbvik said.
“At a time when fuel costs are
sky-rocketing SNG is the best
solution to keep the fuel costs in
control. We tried this netting on
Ramoen and were really pleased
with the results.
SNG twine is now being manufactured in twine sizes from 1mm
up to 7.20mm and in a variety of
mesh sizes.
“There are plenty of benefits
to using SNG netting, and any
additional investment costs
are quickly recouped,” Amit
Kulkarni said.
“So far it has been a runaway
success in northern Europe,
particularly in Norway, and it is
moving fast in other markets in
northern Europe, while it has
also picked up substantially on
the east coast of Canada and the
US.”
“In the coming year we expect
to drive sales of SNG netting in
Spain, Russia and the USA,” he
said.
SERVICE: DESMI is a world
leading pump provider
DESMI
CELEBRATES
180 YEARS
OF BUSINESS
NEW GENERATION: Garware-Wall’s SNG (Sapphire New
Generation) netting
Student
invention
turns mobile
phone to VHF
Being in trouble at sea without a phone
signal might no longer be an issue thanks
to an Irish-designed case that allows a
phone to become a VHF radio.
As reported in the Irish Examiner,
student Seán Toomey came up with the
idea for his waterproof ‘VHF Casemate’
as a thesis project for his product design
degree at Dublin Institute of Technology.
He is now hoping a partner firm will
be found to put it into production.
“The RNLI lifeboat team said it was
a problem in some incidents that they
responded to, where people had tried to
raise the alarm using mobiles but that a
signal was not available,” the 23-year-old
Dubliner said.
But even making a call by phone does
not give the same location information a VHF radio can provide to local
coastguard.
IDEA: Being
able to turn
your mobile
phone
into a VHF
transmitter
would
provide
great safety
backup for
small boat
fishermen
Another advantage of VHF radio is
that nearby vessels pick up the distress
signal and are able to proceed as to the
scene of the incident.
By sliding the phone into the case and
connecting it to an in-built connector –
which doubles as a charger – the user has
a VHF radio that can be activated simply
through a phone app.
The buoyant prototype was successfully
trialled last year, but Seán is still finalising design and software.
For DIT Hothouse, the college’s innovation and technology centre, the aim is
to find a commercial partner to take on
Seán’s patent-pending technology and
sell it to consumers. Ideally, it should
retail for less than €100, with VHF handheld radios currently available to buy for
between €50 and €200.
DESMI is celebrating the company’s 180th anniversary this year.
Many things have happened since
1834 – and the firm’s journey is
celebrated all over the world.
It all started in an iron foundry
in small premises in Aalborg 180
years ago, and today DESMI is
a global company with locally
rooted ownership, headquarters
in Nørresundby, and employees
in no less than 28 locations
worldwide.
Having distribution centres
in USA, China, and Denmark,
subsidiaries and distributors
in all important markets, and
production facilities in China,
Denmark, and USA, DESMI
has really developed a good
reputation in recent years. The
company has today more than
600 employees and will celebrate
the anniversary in all locations
all over the world in May and
June.
DESMI is supplying pumps
and pump solutions for many
industries, for instance marine,
process industry, district heating,
sewage etc., and is also supplying
systems for recovery of oil spills.
DESMI’s
employees
are
part of this history, and even
though there are many faces and
colleagues all over the world,
they still feel like one big family,
where most of them know each
other by name no matter in
which continent or country they
are working. All employees are
now looking forward to a good
and memorable party where
sails will be set for the next many
years…In addition to a party for
the employees, the anniversary
will also be celebrated at a reception
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June 2014
PROFILE
Merger in question
after the ‘commercial
basis’ is blocked
by South Africa’s
competition authority
Rijuta Dey
S
outh African fishing
company Oceana and
Foodcorp were ordered
to sell Foodcorp’s
fishing rights along
with its Glenryck brand, as a
condition for approval of a transaction whereby Oceana takes
over the fishing business of
Foodcorp.
Oceana
had
emphasised
that it would not continue with
the transaction if it could not
have the rights allocated to
Foodcorp by the Department
of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries for its catch of small
pelagic fish.
It had, in a previous interview
with Fishing News International,
said “there would be no commercial basis for Oceana to proceed
with the transaction on the
conditions imposed by the
Competition Commission”.
Last April the Competition
Tribunal approved the transaction on conditions initially
imposed by the Commission.
The companies had taken conditional approval on review before
the tribunal and evidence was
heard earlier this year.
The tribunal has approved
the transaction with the same
conditions — that the merging
parties sell the fishing rights and
the Glenryck canned-pilchards
brand to an independent third
party.
The Commission asked for the
condition, which would deprive
Oceana of Foodcorp’s fishing
quota, as a way of preventing
market dominance.
Oceana owns the Lucky
Star brand of canned fish, and
Foodcorp the Glenryck brand.
Together they would have been
Oceana Group ordered to
sell Foodcorp fishing rights
dominant in the canned fish
market with a market share of
more than 80%.
The Commission argued that
Glenryck would not be able to
provide competition to Lucky
Star without its own fishing
quota.
The merging parties led
evidence before the tribunal
that it would be able to compete
without the fishing rights as
there was already a willing and
MARKET LEADER: Oceana owns the Lucky Star brand of
canned fish
able buyer in the form of Bidvest
Namibia Fisheries (Bidfish) for
the Glenryck brand.
It said Bidfish had sufficient
quota to ensure that Glenryck
would remain a viable competitor. The tribunal said it would
issue the reasons for its decision
at a later stage.
Oceana Group employees get
€19.8 million windfall
Oceana will pay out ZAR 289
million to employee beneficiaries
of the Oceana Empowerment
Trust – an employee share
ownership scheme – as value
created through fishing rights is
unlocked.
“The trust, which was to last till
2017, was put on a loan, serviced
out of dividends of the company,”
said Francois Kuttel, CEO of
Johannesburg stock exchange
listed Oceana Group.
“But we performed better than
expected – capital value of that
equity appreciated and the debt
reduced faster than anticipated.”
Oceana put forth a proposal in
September 2013 to have an early
payment of 25% of the equity,
which was accepted by more
than 90% of the black shareholders, Kuttel told Fishing News
International.
NOT SO LUCKY?: Oceana Group hit a roadblock in its
quest to acquire South African food company Foodcorp’s
fishing business
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SWEDEN
Tel: +46 523 642200
Fax: +46 523 642219
Email: [email protected]
www.northlift.com
Contact: Per Persson
Manufacturer of line and net haulers,
electric and hydraulic, for leisure and
light commercial use. Innovative
solutions combined with user friendly
design results in haulers that are quick
to mount, foldable and easy to store.
For more information visit our website.
To advertise in this section contact
sales@intrafish.com
LINDGREN-PITMAN, INC
2615 N.E. 5th Avenue
Pompano Beach
Florida 33064
U.S.A.
Tel: +1 954 943 4243
Fax: +1 954 943 7877
Email: [email protected]
www.lindgren-pitman.com
Contact: Jack Lindgren
For over thirty-years Lindgren-Pitman,
Inc. has been the world's leading
manufacturer of monofilament longline
fishing systems. Products include
Longline Spools, Line Setters, Hydraulic
Packages, Hauling Blocks, and Primeline
® Monofilament.
We maintain an international dealer
network to help select and install the
correct system for your application.
www.intrafish.com
June 2014
Netting
Factfinder
Netting
Netting
AKVASERVIS ltd.
See TRAWL MAKERS
35
LE DREZEN GROUP
VAN BEELEN NETTING
see PURSE SEINE NET MAKERS
see NETTING
Purse Seine
Net Makers
NET SYSTEMS INC.
LANKHORST EURONETE
PORTUGAL SA
CHING FA FISHING
IMPLEMENTS FACTORY
CO., LTD.
No. 1 - 2, Shing Nung Road,
Tungkang, Pingtung #92841
TAIWAN
Tel: +886-8-8331100
(Representative line)
Fax: +886-8-8327022 or
+886-8-8322690
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
www.chingfa.com.tw
Contact: Steve Wang / General Manager
Professional fishing gears manufacturer
since 1948 for:
Hi-tech 7 tuna purse seine net, nylon
mono longline, nylon mono &
multi-mono nets, nylon/polyester/PE
Raschel knotless nets for aquaculture,
nylon multifilament twisted & braided
nets, PE twisted & braided nets, cast
nets, agriculture nets, safety nets, sport
nets, camouflage nets, ropes, twines,
floats and etc.
Rua da Cerfil (Cap. Gramaxo)
P.O. Box 1029
4471-909 Maia
PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 22 961 9200
Fax: +351 22 960 5757
Email: [email protected]
www.euronete.pt
Contact: Mafalda Gramaxo
Bondie Sciarone
Producer of the recognized brands:
Netting: Euroline®, Premium®,
Premium / Plus, Lankoforce , Anza ®.
Wire Ropes: Eurowire® and Europact®.
Fibre Ropes: Lankoforce , Eurotech®,
Eurosteel®, Tipto®.
Super 12 net twines.
Branded products for improved
efficiency !
Marine Division
Avenida do Mosteiro, 486
4415 - 493 Grijó
PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 22 7476500
Fax: +351 22 7649021
Email: [email protected]
www.cotesi.com
Contact: Filipe Serra
Since 1943 Cotesi Marine Division
develops solutions for the Fishing
Industry. Our products are recognized
worldwide by their quality.
GARWARE-WALL ROPES
LTD.
Plot No.11, Block D-1, MIDC
Chinchwad, Pune - 411 019
INDIA
Tel: +91 20 66115309
Fax: +91 20 27473032
Email: [email protected]
www.garwareropes.com
Contact: Mr. K. Malik
Manufacturer of high performance
SAPPHIRE & OLIVENE MK3 Netting. One
of the worlds largest (Ropes- 12,000
tons & Nets 5,000 tons) modern
integrated manufacturing facilities
offering total cordage, webbing
solutions including variety of 3,4 & 8
strand synthetic ropes, twisted &
braided twine, Sport & Safety nets, Gill
nets, Purse Seines & Trawl Nets.
see TRAWL MAKERs
REDES SALINAS
Carretera Catral, 30
03360, Callosa de Segura
Alicante
SPAIN
Tel: +34 96 531 04 08
Fax: +34 96 531 21 66
Email:
[email protected]
www.redessalinas.com
Contact: Carmen Salinas
Manufacturers of braided and twisted
nylon, polyester and PE netting and
twines. High quality nylon tuna purse
seine nets.
The
basic
tool
Norsk
FORTUNE NET
GROUP OF COMPANIES
see NETTING
KING CHOU MARINE
TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
see NETTING
Formblåsing
LE DREZEN
NORSK FORMBLÅSING
AS
FORTUNE NET
GROUP OF COMPANIES
COTESI S.A.
Ropes & Twine
No. 42 Sto. Domingo St.,
Quezon City, Metro Manila,
PHILIPPINES
Tel: + 632 711 9238, 712 5362
Fax: +632-711 0169
Email: [email protected]
www.fortunenetgrp.com
Contact: Alfonso Siy
MANUFACTURER & EXPORTERS OF:
NYLON MONO & MULTIFILAMENT NETS
& TWINES; POLY NETS & TWINES.
Braided Knotted Nets; Twisted Knotted
Nets; Raschel Knotless Nets;
Monofilament Double Knotted Nets;
Poly construction & shade nets
All types of Twines and Ropes.
SPECIALISING IN: TUNA & SARDINE
Purse Seiners; Mono and Multi Gill Nets;
NYLON & POLY Trawl Nets; Aquaculture
Fence & Cages Nets; Safety and Sports
Nets; Ornamental Nets.
KING CHOU MARINE
TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
23F-2, No.2 Chung Shang 2nd Road
Kaohsiung, # 806
TAIWAN
Tel: +886 7 535 2937/39
Fax: +886 7 535 2938
Email 1: [email protected]
Email 2: [email protected]
www.king-net.com.tw
Contact: Mike Tsai
Assistant Vice President
Professional net making, design &
assembling since 1978 for: Nylon
twisted & braided net, nylon mono &
multifilament net, PP, PE, purse seine,
cage net (super-knot or raschell
knotless) trawl net, traps, safety net,
sports net, float, steel wire & twine.
Merdeveien 12b,
3676 Notodden,
NORWAY
Tel:+47 350 27800
Fax: +47 350 27801
Email: [email protected]
www.norskformblasing.no
Manufacturer of quality Norwegian net
needles.
Plastic blow moulding company with
capacity for producing plastic buoys
and other plastic details.
VAN BEELEN GROUP
P.O. Box 6
1970 AA IJmuiden
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31 255 560 560
Fax: +31 255 512 964
Email: [email protected]
www.vanbeelengroup.nl
Contact: Ms. C. van Beelen
Manufacturers of high quality netting,
ropes and twines.
VÓNIN LTD
see TRAWL MAKERS
Net Haulers
BP 46
29730 LE GUILVINEC
FRANCE
Tel: +33 2 98 58 10 54
Fax: +33 2 98 58 93 33
Email: [email protected]
www.ledrezen.com
Exclusive producer of high performance
Brezline and BrezTop netting.
Producer of braided nylon, polyethylene
and polysteel netting.
Designer of all sort of optimized trawls
with Dynamit®.
Manufacturer of bottom, pair, twins,
8 panels midwater trawls, 4 door rigging
and fly shooting gears for various
species.
Worldwide leader in the production of
specialised purse seine nets for tuna,
sardine, pilchard with a unique digital
purse seine simulation program.
Supplier of the complete range of
fishing equipment (twine, ropes, wire
ropes and hardware).
NORTHLIFT AB
see LINE HAULERS
RICH FISHING & SPORTS
CO. LTD
RICHAN NETTING MFG
CO. LTD.
9FL, Sealight Blvg,
No. 33 Shui Xian Road
Xiamen 361001
CHINA
Factory:
Tangtou Industry Zone
Gangweizhen, Longhai
Zhangzhou 363105
CHINA
Tel: +86 592 2106588
Fax: +86 592 2106288
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
www.richan.cn
Contact: Michael Chen
Manufacturer of nylon twisted & braided
net, nylon multifilament, monofilament,
multi-mono net, PE & PP net, knotless
net, rope and twine, safety net, sports
net, cargo net, float, hook, wire rope,
combination rope, etc.
Ropes & Twine
BRIDON INTERNATIONAL
see STEEL WIRE ROPES
To advertise in this
section contact:
sales@intrafish.com
EURONETE
see NETTING
Steel Wire Ropes
FORTUNE NET
GROUP OF COMPANIES
see NETTING
GARWARE - WALL ROPES
LTD.
see NETTING
OLIVEIRA
see STEEL WIRE ROPES
To advertise in
this section contact
sales@intrafish.com
BRIDON INTERNATIONAL
Icon, First Point
Balby Carr Bank
Doncaster DN4 5JQ
ENGLAND
Tel: +44 1302 565100
Fax: +44 1302 565190
Email: [email protected]
www.bridon.com
Contact: Simon Dixon
Bridon - the world's leading specialist in
the manufacture of wire and rope
solutions for the most demanding
applications, delivering reassurance
through unrivalled experience.
Drawing from a background of long
standing experience and technology,
Bridon is an acknowledged world leader
in the design, manufacture,
development and supply of steel wire
ropes to meet the needs of the fishing
industry.
Factfinder
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Steel Wire Ropes
Trawl Doors
Trawl Makers
June 2014
Trawl Makers
www.intrafish.com
Trawl Makers
RICH FISHING & SPORTS
CO. LTD
see NETTING
BMInternational CO.,LTD.
POLAR FISHING GEAR
OLIVEIRA
Rua do Outeiro, 906
4470-150 Gemunde
PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 22 943 49 00
Fax: +351 22 943 49 49
Email: [email protected]
www.oliveirasa.com
Contact: Miguel Oliveira Sá,
Sofia Santos,
Ilídio Monteiro.
Oliveira Sá manufactures a full range of
products for fishing:
Steel wire ropes Green Strand®, Super
Yellow Fin®, Super Atlantic®, and all
other constructions with possibility of
plastified core; Combination ropes.
We are a world leader in producing
combination ropes in 4 and 6 strands;
Synthetic ropes 3, 4, 8 strands and
double braided ropes, with famous
brands like Delphinline®, Astraline®,
Orionline®, Corona line® and
Libraline®.
Also producers of twisted and braided
twines in nylon, PE, PP and PET with
Dyneema®.
AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST:
STEEL WIRE ROPES FROM CAMESA AND
DRUMET.
Trawl Blocks
Sudurlandsbraut 8
IS-108 Reykjavik
ICELAND
Tel: +354 568 50 80
Fax:+354 568 50 85
Email: [email protected]
www.polardoors.com
Contact: Atli Mar Josafatsson
Designer and manufacturer of one of
the most efficient trawl doors on the
market.
Complete range of trawl doors,
suitable for demersal fishing in
shallow and deep water, "off the
seabed", semi-pelagic and pelagic
fishing in surface and other mid-water
fishing.
Suppliers of steel hardware and
other accessories for fishing
including ropes and netting.
Trawl Makers
#1509-10, Dadae-Dong, Saha-Gu,
Busan,
KOREA, 604-050
Tel : +82-51-266-8035
Fax : +82-51-266-8036
Email: [email protected]
www.bminternational.co.kr
Contact: Sales Director Y.S.Sohn
The newly launched BMI is Northeast
Asia´s leading maker,manufacturer and
supplier of fishing gear, Trawlnets,
Trawldoors, Codends, Ground ropes,
experimental nets and spare parts for
fishing vessels.
We promise to supply competitive
products with the best quality and price
by the state of art technology. BMI will
do with your success.
EGERSUND TRAL AS
The
Best Trawls
for
the
Best Catch
Svanavågen
N-4370 Egersund
NORWAY
Tel: +47 51 46 29 00
Fax: +47 51 46 29 01
Email: [email protected]
www.egersundgroup.no
Contact: Bjørn Havsø
Designer and manufacturer of trawl and
trawl gear of any type.
ISFELL EHF
Oseyrarbraut 28
P.O.Box 40
222 Hafnarfjordur
ICELAND
Tel. +354 5 200 500
Fax +354 5 200 501
Email: [email protected]
www.isfell.is
Isfell ehf. is a major manufacturer and
designer of pelagic trawls, bottom
trawls and shrimp trawls, as well as
being a leading Icelandic distributor
of fishing gear for all types of fishing.
The company offers a wide range
of items for fishermen, including
safety equipment, workwear, cleaning
chemicals and various other practical
items. Isfell is also supplier of various
lifting and lashing gear for all kinds of
industries.
ROFIA Kloska GmbH
Zum Kuehlhaus 5
18069 Rostock
GERMANY
Tel: +49 381 811 2805
Fax: +49 381 811 2482
Email: [email protected]
www.kloska.com
Contact: Herman-Eric Poelman
Designer and manufacturer of bottom
trawls, semi-pelagic and pelagic trawls,
shrimp trawls, beam trawls, security
nets of all sizes using the
most-up-to-date materials with best
quality.
Supplier of the complete range of
fishing equipment (twines, ropes, wire
ropes and hardware in general)
to customers all around the world.
LE DREZEN GROUP
see PURSE SEINE NET MAKERS
POLAR FISHING GEAR
see TRAWL DOORS
Trawl Bobbins
POLAR FISHING GEAR
see TRAWL DOORS
AKVASERVIS Ltd.
SANTYMAR SA
BALTIC-LAS PALMAS
Tel: +370 46 635 363
Email: [email protected]
www.akvaservis-trawl.com
Polígono Industrial A Pasaxe
36316 VINCIOS, (Gondomar)
Pontevedra
SPAIN
Tel: +34 986 467080
Fax: +34 986 467823
Contact: Patricia Barciela
Designer and manufacturer of complete
fishing gear with all accessories, ready
for fishing.
Agents for Spain of compacted steel
wire rope with round wires, from
European origin and manufacturers of
Steel Bobbins.
Distributors and manufacturers of
Injector trawldoors.
Baltic branch contact:
Viktor Zincenko - in Russian
Skype name: Akvaservis
Las Palmas branch contact:
Rogerio Silva
Skype: Rogerio_uk1 - in English,
Spanish, Portuguese
Email: [email protected]
SOUNETE LDA
Rua da Seara, 588
4431-904 Vila Nova de Gaia
PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 227 86 09 34
Fax: +351 227 86 09 35
Email: [email protected]
www.sounete.pt
Contact: Ricardo Almeida
Founded in 1927. Sounete offers
equipment for the Trawling industry.
Manufacturers of steel bobbins and
complete range of trawl fishing
hardware, shackles, blocks etc.
Trawl Doors
BMInternational CO.,LTD.
see TRAWL MAKERS
- Custom-made, pelagic/mid-water/
bottom trawls for over 1000kW vessels.
- Active since 1992 in WESTERNAFRICAN waters of Morocco,
Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Namibia
and South Africa for Sardine, Sardinella
& Mackerel-Scombridae family.
- Specialized gear for NORTHERN waters
of Norwegian and Barents Sea, for
Blue-Whiting, Herring, Mackerel-family,
Haddock Krill, Halibut, Flounder &
Flatfish-family.
- Used in FAR-EASTERN waters of
Bering, Okhotsk Sea ocean for
Pollock-family, Herring, Squid and in
South Pacific/New Zealand area for
Mackerel, Tuna-Scombridae fish family.
- High quality trawls, nettings,
cod-ends, ropes, wires and leading
hardware supplier for the commercial
fishing.
- COMPETITIVE PRICES WITHOUT
COMPROMISE IN QUALITY.
EURORED VIGO SL
Av. Ricardo Mella, 95
36213 Vigo
SPAIN
Tel: + 34 986 20 33 12
Fax: +34 986 20 60 05
Email:[email protected]
www.euroredvigo.com
Contact: Jorge Lores
Eurored Vigo represents high efficiency
all around the world, in the
commercialisation of pelagic trawls,
semi-pelagic trawls, bottom trawls, twin
trawls etc. Equipped with P. E., Redline,
Movline and nylon twines. Excellent
quality materials with a high resistance
like trawl doors. Naval hardware (steel
and stainless steel), twines, ropes,
longline and hardware in general.
Akersten Street
PO Box 403, Nelson
NEW ZEALAND
Tel: +64 3 546 8991
Fax: +64 3 546 8663
Email: [email protected]
www.motnets.co.nz
Contact: Andrew Hope
Designers, manufacturers of Mid Water,
Semi Pelagic, and Demersal trawls for
vessels ranging from 120hp to 8000hp,
also RMT's for research purposes.
Specialists in the supply of DYNEEMA®
demersal and mid water trawls for deep
sea fisheries.
Suppliers of Van Beelen netting as well
as stockists of rope, twine, chain etc.
MØRENOT FISHERY AS
see FISHING GEAR
FORTUNE NET
GROUP OF COMPANIES
TOR-NET EHF
see NETTING
KING CHOU MARINE
TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
see NETTING
To advertise in this section contact
sales@intrafish.com
NET SYSTEMS INC.
7910 N.E. Day Road West
Bainbridge Is
WA 98110
USA
Tel: +1 206 842 5623
Fax: +1 206 842 6832
Email: [email protected]
www.net-sys.com
Contact: Dan Oliver or John Nadeau
Manufacturer and designer of pelagic
and demersal trawl systems for a wide
range of species. Exclusive
manufacturer of Ultra Cross Knotless
netting products, high performance
trawl doors, and large diameter/large
mesh knotted netting.
Hvaleyrarbraut 27
220 Hafnarfjördur,
ICELAND
Tel: +354 555 7888
Fax: +354 555 7887
Email: [email protected]
www.tornet.is
Tor-Net Ltd is specializing in
midwater/pelagic trawls.
Our customer base extends now around
the world, with trawlers from the
Netherlands, Faroe Islands, South
Africa, USA, China, Russia, South Korea,
Chile and Morocco, as well as from
Iceland, all using Tor-Net pelagic trawl
gear across a variety of fisheries that
take in mackerel, horse mackerel,
herring, sardine, sardinella, blue
whiting, redfish, Alaska Pollock,
lanternfish and krill ranging from the
South Pacific to the North Atlantic.
www.intrafish.com
June 2014
Factfinder
Grading/Weighing
Trawl Makers
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Machinery
Refrigeration
Miscellaneous
MAREL
See MACHINERY
Vónin Ltd
P.O. Box 19
Bakkavegur 22
FO-530 Fuglafjørður
FAROE ISLANDS
Tel: +298 474 200
Fax: +298 474 201
Email: [email protected]
www.vonin.com
Contact: Bogi Nón
Designer and manufaturer of pelagic
trawls, semi-pelagic trawls, shrimp
trawls, bottom trawls, sorting grids,
purse seine nets, pots, long lines, gill
nets, fish farming nets, mooring
systems, plastic cages. Vónin has
branches in the Faroe Islands, Canada,
Greenland, Denmark and Norway.
Vónin Canada Ltd
P.O. Box 89
100 Main Road
Port-de-Grave
Newfoundland
CANADA AOA 3JO
Tel: +1 709 786 4673
Fax: +1 709 786 4674
Email: [email protected]
www.vonin.ca
Contact: Jan Klein
Qalut Vónin A/S
P.O.Box 779
Aqqusinersuaq B 2815
3900 Nuuk
GREENLAND
Tel: +299 32 32 31
Fax: +299 32 57 58
Email: [email protected]
www.qalut.gl
Contact: Cuno Jensen
Insulated Containers
Refa Group A/S
Strandveien 68
NO-9300 Finnsnes
NORWAY
Tel: +47 70 08 00 00
Fax: +47 77 85 05 01
Email: [email protected]
www.refa.no
Contact: Frank Larsen
Tuna Purse Seine
Netmakers
KING CHOU MARINE
TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
see NETTING
LE DREZEN GROUP
see PURSE SEINE NET MAKERS
see PROCESSING
Vessel Scrapping
Packaging
Fosen Gjenvinning as
FOSEN GJENVINNING as
Kirkholmen Industriområde
7177 Revsnes
NORWAY
Tel: +47 72 53 44 30
Fax: +47 72 53 42 09
Email: [email protected]
www.fosengjenvinning.no
Ship scrapping/recycling - steel and
metal
-All kind of second hand ship equipment
-We buy ships for scrapping
-Engines-hydraulics-winches-etc.
Fish Meal
PROMENS DALVIK
see INSULATED CONTAINERS
PROMENS DALVIK
Gunnarsbraut 12
620 Dalvik
ICELAND
Tel:+354 460 5000
Fax: +354 460 5001
Email: [email protected]
www.promens.com/saeplast
Promens is the world leading
manufacturer of insulated plastic
containers and pallets for the fishing
industry.
Promens manufactures two of the best
proven brands in the world; Saeplast
and Nordic.
Our reputation and experience
is your guarantee. For more information
see our website.
Pumps
Fish Pumps
SEAQUEST SYSTEMS
Haarslev Industries A/S
Bogensevej 85
DK-5471 Søndersø
DENMARK
Tel: +45 63 83 11 00
Fax: +45 63 83 11 20
Email: [email protected]
www.haarslev.com
Haarslev Industries is the world's
leading company within fish meal
processing equipment.
Our product range includes raw
material pumps, indirect cookers,
twin screw presses, steam dryers,
hot air dryers and evaporators. We
supply equipment for both land-based
and on-board fish meal plants.
Haarslev Industries integrates the
recognised brands of Atlas-Stord,
Hetland, Stord-Bartz, Tremesa, Flo-Dry,
Sevar and Haarslev.
Strandby Net A/S
Sildevej 24
DK-9970 Strandby
DENMARK
Tel: +45 9848 1300
Fax: +45 9848 0700
Email: [email protected]
www.strandbynet.dk
VMK PELAGIC
Processing Solutions
Processing
VMK PELAGIC
Processing Solutions
Box 915
391 29 Kalmar
SWEDEN
www.vmkfish.com /
[email protected]
Contact: Anders Leffler
Tel: +46 (0) 70 206 1170
Offering automatic processing systems
for pelagic fish, including; elevators and
automatic feeders securing the position
of the fish, deheading machines with or
without the evicera left inside, vacuum
equipment, filleting machines for single
or butterfly fillets, and in-line skinning
machines.
VMK users appreciate the robustness in
design and material - combining high
performance machines with small
square meter usage and cost efficient
maintenance.
Machinery
NORDISCHER
MASCHINENBAU
Rud. Baader GmbH + Co.KG
Geniner Str. 249
D-23560 Luebeck
GERMANY
Tel: +49 451 5302-0
Fax: +49 451 5302-492
Email: [email protected]
www.baader.com
Contact: Regina Dedow
Manufacturer of fish processing
machines and complete processing
solutions.
Since 1919 the BAADER-Group is a
leading global manufacturer and
supplier of advanced high quality food
processing machinery and solutions.
Now also systems for weighing and
grading and Management Software
Solutions are part of our product range.
BAADER plans designs, set up complete
processing lines and solutions onboard
or onshore. With offices and service
stations all over the world and a
reputation of high quality equipment for
the food industry, BAADER is the right
partner.
BAADERs mission is to provide the best
solutions to produce safe food safely
worldwide.
MAREL
Sales and service offices in 30 countries
Tel: +354 563 8000
Fax: +354 563 8001
Email: [email protected]
www.marel.com
The leading global provider of advanced
equipment and integrated systems for
onboard and onshore fish processing.
With our cutting edge equipment and
global sales and service network, we
help fish processors of all sizes to
operate at peak efficiency.
Roshine Road
Killybegs, Co Donegal
IRELAND
Tel: +353 (0)74 97 31542
Fax: +353 (0)74 97 31573
Email: [email protected]
www.seaquest.ie
Contact: Brian Leslie
ONE STOP SHOP FOR FISH PUMPING
Fish pumps 12,” 14/16”, 18” and our
new mega pump 24”.
Fish hose from 10” to 20” in lengths of
up to 80 metres. Fishpump fittings
include hose inserts, hose clamps, quick
release fittings, adaptors that go up or
down in hose size. Elbows are available
in 60° and 90° fabricated in marine
grade aluminium or stainless steel.
Leak free stainless steel swivels up to
20” with stainless bearings connect
directly to our hose fittings. our fittings
are interchangeable with other similar
types.
Net sounder cable, ex stock, in 11mm
and 8.5mm.
GUANGZHOU CHONSON
BEYOND MARINE TECH.
CO., LTD
B, 4th Floor, Building No.5,
1 Nanli Rd, Jiangnan Village,
Nancun Town, PanYu, Guangzhou
CHINA
Tel: +86 20 2867 6608
Mob: +86 138 0240 9106
Fax: +86 20 2867 6607
Email: [email protected]
www.chonsonbeyond.com
Contact:Jamie Tsai
Beyond is specialized in design,
integration and ideal solutions for
pelagic trawlers refrigeration(or
ultralow temperature) system and
processing factory.
We design and produce conveyor, fish
caring system, slurry ice machine.
Beyond is not only system integrator
ranging from individual system to
complete turn-key project, but also
offer you with project management for
fishing vessel on new building/
reconstruction.
Our global service network will provide
you with first-class support.
OPTIMAR ICELAND
see PUMPABLE ICE
Freezing Equipment
NANTONG SQUARE
A better freezer choice!
Leading freezer and food processing
machinery provider in China!
Nantong Square Cold
Chain Equipment Co., Ltd
WINTEC ApS
Risbjergvej 28
7330 Brande
DENMARK
Tel: +45 9718 1977
Fax: +45 9642 5278
Email: [email protected]
www.wintec.dk
Contact: Oliver Bach
Established in 1989, Wintec specializes
in the engineering and productions of
micro drum filters, fish pumps, grading
machines and more.
We have developed a new control
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Q&A
FRED KINGSTON
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, NAFO
NAFO (Northwest
Atlantic Fisheries
Organisation) is
an international,
intergovernmental
fisheries science and
management agency that
manages fisheries in the
international waters of
the Northwest Atlantic
Ocean. Fishing News
International spoke to its
new Executive Secretary
Fred Kingston about
the challenges that his
job entails, not least
the inclement weather
of Halifax, Nova Scotia,
where he is based
Rijuta Dey
FNI: What led you to the NAFO*
executive secretary job?
Kingston: I was working with the
EU delegation for the past 25 years in
Ottawa where I was an economic policy
advisor.
Part of my responsibilities covered
the fisheries portfolio, so I worked
closely with NAFO officials and regularly attended the organisation’s annual
meetings for 20 years.
For the last ten years I was in the
standing committee on finance and
administration, and my background is
in internatioal trade.
It was interesting to come to the
NAFO meetings from a background of
finance administration.
FNI: How has it been to be sitting on
NAFO’s hot seat so far?
Kingston: I came into office as NAFO’s
executive secretary from January 1 this
year, and it has been a steep learning
curve so far.
It’s been a work in progress, Kingston
commented, adding that the inclement
weather in Halifax does not make his
job easier.
FNI: What is on the projected long
term agenda for the next Scientific
Council meeting in June?
Kingston: The ‘ecosystem approach’ to
fisheries management, which is a work
in progress.
We are now on a precautionary approach
to fishing, and NAFO has significantly
amended its mandate to take into
account the entire marine ecosystem
while managing fisheries.
NAFO combines with a working
group of scientists to work on the lines
of a holistic, ecosystem based fisheries
management.
This major amendment to the NAFO
convention, made five years ago, has not
yet been ratified.
The amendment was made for modernising NAFO’s working.
One of the major recommendations
made during NAFO’s performance
review was the ecosystem approach. The
review wanted more interaction between
scientists and fisheries managers.
FNI: What’s the biggest change you
have seen in your lifetime involved
with fisheries management?
Kingston: The biggest change I have
seen is that TACs are not being set in
vacuum. The ecosystem approach is
more holistic as it takes into account
more variables when taking decisions.
There is more awareness about the
overall impact of such decisions, and
understanding that we are trying to
manage resources that are limited.
*Background: NAFO is an intergovernmental fisheries science and
management body. NAFO was founded
in 1979 as a successor to ICNAF
(International Commission of the
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries) (19491978).
NAFO is responsible for a variety of
functions, including – scientific advice,
vessel monitoring, fishing vessel catch
inspections, conservation, species
management and overseeing fisheries
closures.
Almost all of these responsibilities
apply to the area outside of Canada’s
200-mile limit in international waters.
NAFO
manages
most
fishery
resources of the Northwest Atlantic
except sedentary species (e.g. shellfish) and species managed by other
fishery bodies, i.e. salmon (NASCO),
tunas/marlins (ICCAT), and whales
(NAMMCO).The
organisation’s
authority to carry out these responsibilities comes from its signatories.
There are 12 member countries –
Canada, USA, Cuba, European Union,
France, Denmark, Norway, Iceland,
Russia, Ukraine, Japan and Korea –
who agree to prosecute through their
domestic courts any violations NAFO
discovers.
The NAFO fishery targets 19
commercial stocks, comprised of 11
species which are managed by NAFO.
in 2011 catches were 55,000 tonnes in
the RA.
The international fishery mostly
targets groundfish (including cod,
Greenland halibut, redfish and skates)
and shrimp.
A fishing ban (moratorium) is in place
for five species: Atlantic cod, American
plaice, witch flounder, capelin and
shrimp, although fishing for cod on the
Flemish cap and redfish on the Grand
Bank has been recently re-opened for
fishing.
In 2011, 56 vessels from 13 flag states
fished in the NAFO Regulatory Area.
The main gear type used in the area is
the bottom trawl.
At-sea inspections in the NAFO
Regulatory Area are frequent and
random. Of the 214 at-sea inspections
carried out in 2010, 7 (e.g. 3%), indicated that the vessel inspected might
have violated NAFO regulations.
A typical fishing trip in the NAFO
RA extends between two weeks and
four months, on average about three
months.
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