Away for the winter

northeast1

northeast1

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Well spent the last two days in the freezing weather sorting the boat out and getting it ready for the winter as well as fitting a cooker, new fire protection and float opp pump.

Filled the tank until its about to pop, added the doc fuel, then completed all the other wintering tasks stated in the hand book and a few extra.
Also took down the numbers for the filters etc so all ready to service it come March but she wont be out the water until March 2010 unless a problem occurs.

Was shocked to see all the trawlers in docked today,. never seen them tied up inside and outside the marina, does that mean its the end of the season for them or did i just catch them all doing some wor on the boats.
 
mines all put away now for the winter back to the shore fishing now. the shore stuff loses its flavour a bit when youve been bagging the cod over the summer and your freezing ya nuts trying to catch one. Still go though !!!!!!!
 
I have not bothered to winter fish for a few seasons now as most trips just not worth the bother. Think i will have maybe 2 days fishing this winter unless a good spell of rough sea chucks up good numbers of cod.
 
northeast1 said:
Well spent the last two days in the freezing weather sorting the boat out and getting it ready for the winter as well as fitting a cooker, new fire protection and float opp pump.

Filled the tank until its about to pop, added the doc fuel, then completed all the other wintering tasks stated in the hand book and a few extra.
Also took down the numbers for the filters etc so all ready to service it come March but she wont be out the water until March 2010 unless a problem occurs.

Was shocked to see all the trawlers in docked today,. never seen them tied up inside and outside the marina, does that mean its the end of the season for them or did i just catch them all doing some wor on the boats.
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talking to one of em earlier, they all came in for shelter, been a bit lumpy offshore by all accounts - 9's 10's and 11's!
 
Charlton said:
wonder what gave you that idea mmmmmm
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Welll...it is nearly Christmas...:D

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The boats appearing at the Royal Quays and Amble are all boats from Scotland , Ireland and abroad that come for the prawn fishing season off the NE Coast. The prawns start coming out of the mud about now and the season usually lasts till mid January when all the boats will pack up and move on.

The prawn fishing was so bad last year that most of the boats had moved on by early december, and this year looks like being just as bad or worse, if the discussions at the SFC meeting on Tuesday are anything to go by.

One committee member who works for a Scottish Producer Organisation commented that the reason the prawn fishing is so bad is that there are so many cod out there they are eating them all and they can't fish for the cod because they have no quota...it was enough to bring a tear to my eye :)

These boats cause many problems for fishery protection guys as they are only meant to work outside the six mile line but many push that to the limit. The fisheries protection officers only have jurisdiction out to six miles and after that it is the responsibility of the MF&A for enforcement.

If an MF&A enforcement officer is aboard the protection vessel they can inspect a boat outside the six mile limit BUT here lies a problem.

Non of the local MF&A officers have the correct qualifications to board the rib on the FPV and therefore have no way of boarding these visiting trawlers so no inspections take place and the FPV spends its time working up and down the six mile line ensuring that no one encroaches into the six mile limit. In theory this is fine but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that the large black boat in RQ's with protection Vessel on the side is the only patrol boat in the region.

Cheers
Dave
 
Thought i had not seen any of them trawlers before, as our local ones are smaller and i know most of them by name now.

Still was shocked at how much bigger they were than our local ones and how many there was. I am not shicked the prawn seasonw as poor as most of the big cod i ahve had this year had flatfish and crabs int he gutt, few years ago it was all the large orange prawns in the gutts.
 
davem2005 said:
The boats appearing at the Royal Quays and Amble are all boats from Scotland , Ireland and abroad that come for the prawn fishing season off the NE Coast. The prawns start coming out of the mud about now and the season usually lasts till mid January when all the boats will pack up and move on.

The prawn fishing was so bad last year that most of the boats had moved on by early december, and this year looks like being just as bad or worse, if the discussions at the SFC meeting on Tuesday are anything to go by.

One committee member who works for a Scottish Producer Organisation commented that the reason the prawn fishing is so bad is that there are so many cod out there they are eating them all and they can't fish for the cod because they have no quota...it was enough to bring a tear to my eye :)

These boats cause many problems for fishery protection guys as they are only meant to work outside the six mile line but many push that to the limit. The fisheries protection officers only have jurisdiction out to six miles and after that it is the responsibility of the MF&A for enforcement.

If an MF&A enforcement officer is aboard the protection vessel they can inspect a boat outside the six mile limit BUT here lies a problem.

Non of the local MF&A officers have the correct qualifications to board the rib on the FPV and therefore have no way of boarding these visiting trawlers so no inspections take place and the FPV spends its time working up and down the six mile line ensuring that no one encroaches into the six mile limit. In theory this is fine but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that the large black boat in RQ's with protection Vessel on the side is the only patrol boat in the region.

Cheers
Dave
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why don't we just have one body to cover the whole lot
 
too simple that alan - dont forget a few years back there was also 6 navy boats on at the same time covering 24/7 out to the 12 mile i believe this is just one on now.
 
Was going to say the same Jason. Its never easy when government is involved.

As I understand it the navy cover the 6 mile out to 200 miles so six boats was not enough. This is the area that the mf&a is supposed to police but their sea trained staff are on those navy boats and not here in the NE. This is why it is a rather good idea to have the local MF&a guys go out on joint patrols with the SFC guys... just a little matter of training.

The government rely heavily on the satelite tracking of boats for monitoring, but then it should come as no suprise that when a prosecution comes up for illegal fishing it also usually includes charges of tampering with tracking equipment.

Cheers
Dave
 

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