World Fishing December/January 2019

DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY 2019 ❘ VOL. 67

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INFORMING THE GLOBAL FISHING INDUSTRY SINCE 1952 Industry News 4 | Review 12 | Fishing Technology 14 | Power & Fuel 18 | Newbuilds 26

NEW HORIZONS

ESCALATING GEAR CONFLICTS IN SOUTH ATLANTIC

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INSIGHT

A collision between Brazilian and Chinese longliners in international waters appears to be the latest incident in an escalation of competition for fishing grounds in the South Atlantic. This time it has led to accusations from both sides, and has also triggered a spate of politically-motivated fake news that has been shared thousands of times on social media, despite having been shown by a fact-checking agency to be false.

24 metre Brazilian tuna vessel Oceano Pesca 1 was fishing 430 nautical miles east of Natal when it was involved in an altercation with Chinese fishing vessel Chang Rong 4, resulting in the Brazilian vessel having to cut its trip short to seek repairs. According to skipper

8 Oceano Pesca 1 was involved in an incident with a Chinese fishing vessel in international waters

Carlos Derlando Brandao, the Chinese vessel caused a deliberate collision, and attempted to do so again.

He commented that minor conflicts with Chinese fishing vessels are common and are generally occur over entangled longlines, but he said these conflicts do not take place with Spanish or Japanese vessels.

“Our lines are shorter and lighter than theirs. When our gears occasionally cross theirs, they frequently just cut our lines and let them sink,” he said. “The Chinese are aggressive and try to intimidate us with their big vessels,” he added.

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After more than 30 years of service, research vessel Belgica is to be replaced, and the Belgian Federal Government has opted for a replacement scheduled to be operational by the end of 2020 to support the marine research community for the next thirty years.

The new research vessel project has been realised through a collaboration between the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), the Ministry of Defence and the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO). The order for the new vessel has gone to the Freire yard in Vigo, and the contract to deliver the ship’s design and equipment systems has been placed with Rolls-Royce.

The research vessel will cater for the requirements of the Belgian marine scientific community when performing advanced marine research and education at sea. This will include research within the fields of geology and sedimentology, fisheries, biology, chemistry, oceanography (including meteorology). In

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8 The new Belgian research vessel is designed by Rolls-Royce and is to be built at Freire

addition, the vessel will be part of hydrography surveys.

The new research vessel will be a UT 844 WP design.

In addition, Rolls-Royce will supply the main propulsion system, including side thrusters, Promas integrated propulsion and manoeuvring system, power electric system and steering gear. A vital part of the systems delivery is also automation and control systems such as the propulsion control system, Unified Bridge and dynamic positioning (DP).

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Lies, damned lies and fake news

As Lenin advised: Don’t believe everything you read on the internet

In an age in which virtually all debate and discussion is dominated by what are quaintly termed fake news and alternative facts, both of which are shorthand for lies and untruths, the fishing industry is no exception. If anything, fishing has been a hotbed of misconceived quayside gossip since long before the internet came along to make the whole process of spreading barefaced falsehoods so much smoother.

The sheer amount of myth and misunderstanding that seems to run through the fishing industry as a whole never ceases to be astonishing, and sometimes it spills over into the rest of the world that otherwise displays remarkably little interest in fishing, and when it does, its preference is exclusively for bad news.

The fishing industry being shoehorned into the Brexit debate is a case in point, as is this month’s cover story, with an incident offshore hijacked and dressed up with a few added ‘alternative facts’ as part of Brazil’s brutal presidential race.

This goes well beyond the increasingly dirty world of politics. The environmental movement also has plenty to answer for, with certain organisations having played a significant role over many years in disseminating a whole raft of carefully crafted half-truths; presenting a meticulously cherry-picked range of information that tells one side of a story, often aimed at dividing even more deeply an already thoroughly divided industry.

Then there’s the explosion of social media, which has proved to be a fertile ground for breeding and disseminating outright falsehoods that so demonstrably have so little basis in any kind of reality that it beggars belief that these gain any kind of acceptance. But they do.

People want to believe this stuff. They naturally prefer to believe that someone else the source of all their problems, rather than their own mistakes, or the failings of the idiots they voted for – and anything as dull as verifiable facts aren’t going to sway cherished prejudices.

The adage of telling a lie that’s big, and repeating it often enough until people believe it is as alive and well as it was when it was coined.

In reality, it doesn’t need to be repeated all that often. If people like the lie, these days they’ll run with it and spread it around; precious little encouragement is needed.

You have to wonder where we go from here. As pressure groups and political parties cynically and unscrupulously pump out deliberately misleading versions of what they would prefer the truth to be, in an apparent race for who can tell the biggest set of lies with a straight face, you have to wonder how much further we need to go to reach peak fake news.

So what’s the solution? There isn’t one. All you can do it to try and be critical, question where some tempting tidbit comes from before you believe it, and ask who stands to gain.

As Lenin advised: Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

BRIEFS EU, Norway and Faroes reach agreement on NE Atlantic Mackerel An agreement signed in Bergen at the end of last month sets the North-East Atlantic mackerel TAC for at 653,438 tonnes, a 20% reduction on the 2018 figure but still significantly higher than the ICES advice for the fishery.

‘Stop the slaughter’ EJF tells Taiwan Dolphins and turtles are being killed and sharks illegally finned to support Taiwan’s tuna export industry, reports the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).

New CEO for Pescanova USA The Nueva Pescanova Group has appointed Chris Maze as CEO of its Pescanova USA subsidiary, effective as of January 1st, 2019.

Vyborg Shipyard launches lead trawler for ATF Series Vyborg Shipyard, part of Russian vessel construction group United Shipbuilding Corporation, has celebrated the launching of the lead vessel in a series of four new trawlers for Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet.

Biomar expands Ecuadorian shrimp business Danish aquaculture feed company BioMar Group is expanding its Ecuador factory with a new line for extruded shrimp feed. The extrusion line will increase capacity by around 40,000 tonnes and is expected to be ready in early 2020.

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CONFLICT OVER FISHING GEAR SPARKS ACCUSATIONS AND FAKE NEWS Carlos Derlando Brandao and his crew had been fishing for tuna in the area for eight days, and expected to be at sea for another ten when the incident took place, reports Eduardo Campos Lima.

“We were about to haul our lines when we detected a vessel on the AIS heading towards our position. I didn’t see any problem with this, as these waters are crowded with fishing boats from all over the world,” he said.

But the vessel, which they identified as 49 metre Chinese tuna longliner Chang Rong 4, approached dangerously close Oceano Pesca I’s stern. The Chinese crew reportedly threw items at the Brazilian vessel, and made menacing gestures.

“So they hit the port side of our vessel at high speed. They signalled that they intended to sink the boat,” he said, recounting how the Chang Rong 4 spent 40 minutes trying to engineer a second collision, but the smaller Oceano Pesca 1 was able to manoeuvre faster and escaped further contact. Skipper Brandao radioed for help and another Brazilian vessel arrived four hours later. They were able to make temporary repairs to two holes above the waterline, and while Oceano Pesca 1 steamed home, its owners dispatched another vessel to haul its fishing gear. Owner Everton Padilha estimates the loss at £100,000.

Competition for access to fishing grounds in the Southern Atlantic appears to be on the rise, and Chang Rong 4’s owners China National Fisheries Corporation (CNFC) issued a statement following the incident, stating that gear theft is common – and their complaints mirror those of the Brazilian fishermen.

“The position where heavy loss was made to the vessel’s fishing gears was just the position where the Brazilian Vessel Oceano Pesca 1 was,” said CNFC in a statement issued by its general manager Sui Hengshou, stating that the loss of 35 buoys and a large amount of longline in that position the previous day had sparked the incident.

“Chang Rong 4 found the

8 The montage of fake news spread through Brazil during the Presidential campaign, showing the Chinese ambassador to Brazil, former president Dilma Rousseff, vessel Oceano Pesca 1, and two Chinese flags

Brazilian vessel again and sailed toward it, intending to claim back the lost buoys. Close to S05°13’W 28°03’, Chang Rong 4 caught up the Brazilian vessel and, through VHF radio, requested if it could stop for a while and return the stolen fishing gear. However, the Brazilian vessel did not want to listen and was sailing away faster.”

According to CNFC, there were difficult sea conditions at the time of the incident and Chang Rong 4’s slightly touched the port side of Oceano Pesca 1, causing a small dent on the hull, but resulting in no serious damage or any injuries “Then the Brazilian vessel threw eight buoys into the seawater, which were recovered by Chang Rong 4 and identified to be the exact buoys it lost. Chang Rong 4 then left Oceano Pesca 1 [and] went back to the fishing ground, where it continued to haul lines,” CNFC stated, and accuses Brazilian vessels of stealing 107 buoys, 1800 hooks and 100,000 metres of main line from their vessels since the end of October. The Brazilian Navy is investigating the incident.

FAKE NEWS The incident with Oceano Pesca 1 follows on from the highly polarised Brazilian presidential race in which Jair Bolsonaro was elected after a very aggressive campaign against Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, or PT) candidate Fernando Haddad. The rightversus-left race raised animosities throughout the country and fake news were heavily disseminated through WhatsApp and Facebook

– and the news of a Chinese vessel reportedly attacking a Brazilian fishing boat went viral on social media, sometimes with the facts seriously distorted.

A far-right Congressman for three decades, Bolsonaro gained notoriety due to his controversial comments against human rights and a standpoint favorourable to the military junta that ran Brazil between 1964 and 1985. During his campaign, he accused his centre-left opponent Haddad and former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff (also a member of PT) of being communists with plans to implement a Venezuelan-like regime in Brazil.

As soon as the first reports on the conflict with Oceano Pesca 1 started to appear, a distorted version was distributed on social media. The fake version combined the story told by skipper Carlos Brandao and false comments made by the Chinese ambassador to Brazil, Li Jinzhang, implying links between PT and communist regimes all over the world.

While having been shared many thousands of times in spite of having been conclusively disproved by fact-checking agency Lupa, the online version of the story falsely claimed that China’s ambassador to Brazil, Li Jinzhang, had stated that Oceano Pesca I had been the aggressor, while also claiming that during Dilma’s administration, Brazil had signed a treaty ceding part of its coastal grounds to the Chinese fishing operations for 25 years, including exclusive rights to tuna fishing.

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UK-based Freezertech has the unique market position of being able to tightly integrate plate freezers with refrigeration systems in order to improve food manufacturers product quality and reduce capital investment through shorter freezing times. Danish processing systems specialist Carsoe's extensive experience of providing turn key solutions combined with the Freezertech range will allow the company to offer solutions with the lowest labor requirements and running costs.

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“This deal represents an excellent opportunity to provide us with the ability to grow our company at a pace that would not be otherwise achievable” said

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“The investment from Carsoe will expand our manufacturing and operations footprint to include a new 5500m² larger production site and capacity for 350 freezers per year. Together, we are dedicated to maintaining and increasing the quality of innovation, support, and service that customers have come to expect from both our companies. We will continue to focus on cost efficiency, and simplicity. For our respective partners, you can expect to see increased market opportunities through an expanded set of solutions, programs and services.”

As part of the new strategy for growth, Carsoe now welcomes Magnus Fossheim into the role of business manager.

“Having worked for other plate freezer companies before, I feel that Carsoe offers an exciting new challenge and a huge potential for growth as we can merge the existing skills and experience of both companies to offer turnkey solutions that benefits our customers with a level of comprehensiveness not currently available on the market – I believe the future looks very positive for us all,” he said.

Magnus and Kyle will now both be the customer facing side of Freezertech and Carsoe, combining years of experience in both turnkey solutions and product development.

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SHRIMP AND PRAWN PRODUCTION BOOMING IN RUSSIA Shrimps and prawns have not been produced in Russia on an industrial scale since the Soviet era, reports Vladislav Vorotnikov While investors used to consider this too risky a business, new companies are now determined to re-acquaint Russian consumers with this long-forgotten taste. Russian consumers have traditionally made no distinction between shrimps and prawns, with the same word, krevetka, borrowed from the French crevette, used for both. Shrimps are small krevetka and the prawns are big krevetka, or sometimes they are also called king krevetka. The same definitions are used by Russian government agencies and custom services.

Prior to 2014 shrimp and prawn consumption in Russia was estimated at 50,000-55,000 tonnes per year, or only 384 grams per capita. Both types of krevetka were considered a premium product, but still affordable.

According to Alexander Fomin, President of the Association of Fishing Industry Production and Trading Enterprises, prior to 2014 most shrimps and prawns in Russia were imported from Canada. It is believed that at that point the demand for these products reached record levels.

Following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the first international sanctions were introduced. In August that year President Vladimir Putin responded with the so-called food embargo, which with a few exceptions, barred imported of all food products from the US, the European Union, Australia, Japan and Canada.

The domestic market immediately lost almost all krevetka supplies. Import had begun from Thailand and India, but consumption slumped by more than half to only 25,000-30,000 tonnes in 2015 and 2016, or less than 200 grams per capita, according to Alexander Fomin.

In addition, in 2014 retail prices for shrimps in Russia started at Rub280 per kg. In 2018 this figure reached Rub769. While in hard currency terms the price difference is not that much, in rubles the price had jumped almost threefold and for the middle classes krevetka became a luxury item.

Shrimp and prawn consumption in Russia totalled 37,900 tonnes in 2017, 45% up on the previous year. In monetary terms this made around $243.5 million, estimated Levon Kharatyan, senior analyst at the Fishery Strategy Consulting agency. The biggest supplier is Greenland, followed by China, India and Thailand.

It was believed that the domestic market was recovering last year as Russia’s economy had been through the worst. But in 2018 new US sanctions undermined the ruble and new restrictions may follow in connection, and a ban on dollar transactions for Russian banks could result in an unprecedented shortage as Russia pays in dollars for imported shrimp and prawns.

NEAR-PERFECT CONDITIONS Within the food embargo Russian government had banned import of shrimp and prawn broodstock from all countries subjected to restrictions. In 2016 the federal authorities realised this had been a short-sighted measure, and removed broodstock from the list.

“The removal of import restrictions paved the way for the Russian shrimp and prawn industry to emerge. Russia has not produced broodstock and feed, and those things in the

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European part of the country now can be imported only from the European Union,” commented Anton Ivanov, member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

“At the current wholesale prices the payback of the average project is within five years. These are especially attractive terms for investment, especially as long as the federal government allocates state support to mariculture,” he added.

Against this background, in December 2017 Russkaya Krevetka opened what was described as “the biggest shrimp farm in the country” in Kaluga Oblast. With an investment cost of Rub100 million ($1.5 million), the farm is designed to produce 20 tonnes of Pacific white shrimp.

“This is only the beginning. Production is set to increase to 200 tonnes per year. One of our next steps is to shift from growing to breeding shrimps. So far all broodstock in Russia is imported from abroad,” Robert Stubblebine, general director of Russkaya Krevetka said during the opening ceremony at the farm.

The project will develop in stages and the regional government has already expressed readiness to provide fullscale support to the upcoming expansion.

“Our task is to help them. We would certainly provide extra land plots for them to expand production,” commented Anatoly Artamonov, the governor of Kaluga Oblast.

Several months later North Krevetka, revealed its own plans to invest Rub150 million ($2.5 million) to start producing shrimps in Leningrad Oblast. The design production capacity of the project is 20 tonnes per year, although it is set to increase during the coming years, said Kirill Kirillov, one of North Krevetka’s owners.

The company aims to release its first marketable products in 2019, and expand production to 200 tonnes per year by 2022.

This would require additional investment of Rub200 million ($3.1 million). Initially the company will grow Vannamei shrimp, but in future some freshwater shrimps will be added to the range.

“We expect to get support from the Leningrad Oblast’s government. Companies engaged in the aquaculture business

8 Shrimps and prawns have become expensive in Russia following the imposition of trade sanctions and the food embargo, putting them beyond the reach of many consumers

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get subsidies on feed, and soft loans [from state-owned banks], plus reimbursement of the price of equipment,” Kirill Kirillov explained.

However, the price for the first local shrimps on the Russian market will be different as compared to the price of imported products. North Krevetka plans to sell at Rub1800/kg ($25), mainly in the HoReCa segment.

MORE IN THE PIPELINE Other Russian companies are also consider investments in krevetka production. Tkachev’s Agricultural Complex, a major manufacturer of agricultural products in central Russia, launched in 12017 an experimental facility for shrimp production, where the company planned to test the technology.

As soon as it has solid results, some decision about largescale investments could be made, although the lack of local feed and broodstock need to be overcome. Similar experimental production was launched in Astrakhan Oblast a few years ago by a local businessman Victor Kryuchkov. His small facility is growing crayfish and prawns and at the moment he is seeking partners to start production at industrial scale.

“We are offering profitability close to 100%. This is really high, as for comparison outside Russia the average profitability in this business does not exceed 20%,” he said. “Despite that, it is not easy to find investors to such kind of project.”

The main problem is that production of shrimp and prawns is a brand new business that most investors know nothing about.

Another shrimp farm may be launched in the Tatarstan Republic within the aquaculture cluster supported by the regional authorities, Vasily Sokolov of the Federal Fisheries

Agency was quoted as saying, and he added that the regional government has agreed to provide land under the project.

Over the past years Russia has been struggling for the selfsufficiency of its domestic food market. There are no exceptions under this policy, so there is a belief that support for new projects in seafood production will only grow in the coming years. In Russia aquaculture now considered as a part of agricultural industry, which was promised record-breaking state aid of Rub3.42 trillion ($51 billion) from 2019 to 2025. New projects for krevetka production can also be expected to be in line for a piece of this pie.

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INSIGHT The Future of Fishing

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT A new European study finds there’s much more to the fish value chain than the food that’s on our plates, reports Jason Holland When it comes to fish, whether it’s caught or farmed, our first thoughts are usually about the food that we eat. And yet more than 50% of any finfish landed or harvested doesn’t go directly to human consumption. In fact, whitefish such as cod may generate almost 60% waste or by-products, and tuna as much as 70%. For shellfish such as scallops, these figures can be as high as 88%.

Traditionally, a lot of the seafood not destined for human consumption has been utilised in the production of such things as fish oil, fishmeal, animal feed, pet food and fertilisers.

Much has also gone into landfill. But according to new study ‘Blue Bioeconomy: Situation report and perspectives’, compiled by the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products (EUMOFA), much more is now being made from the aquatic biomass and its high-value properties. In particular, added-value is being generated by fish byproducts and algae as nutritional and pharmaceutical ingredients and cosmetic products.

EUMOFA’s study highlights that some countries are already quite advanced in their uses of fish by-products and discarded material from processing. In Iceland, for example, there is a raft of derivatives from cod, including leather made from fish skins, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics made from bioactive compounds, collagen made from fish skin, and supplements and proteins made from different by-products. Icelandic innovation continues with mineral supplements made from fish bones, enzymes extracted from viscera, skin and tissue repair patches made from fish skin. There are also extracts from rest raw materials (RRM) made into powder or bouillon for making soups and sauces.

RRMs comprise all of the potentially useful material that is removed from a fish in order to prepare biomass for food use.

As with Icelandic cod, the RRM from tilapia production in South America is already used for a variety of non-food uses.

Most notably, the skins are sold as a leather and textile material for bags, purses and garments. Skin collagens are extracted and used as a substitute for mammalian gelatines in pharmaceutical capsules. Tilapia scales are even being used as decorative items.

RISING RESOURCES The likelihood is that these emerging sectors will benefit from the expected increase in the global fish supply and the desire to utilise as much of each raw material as possible. The World Bank projects that by 2030, the global fish supply will increase to around 187 million tonnes, and that capture fisheries and aquaculture will each supply 50% of the total. Of the total supply, 152 million tonnes will be used directly for human consumption, comprising 58 million tonnes of fisheries products and all 93.6 million tonnes of the species produced through fish farming. The remaining 35 million tonnes will be available for further processing for non-food uses, including fishmeal production. Overall, such a supply would represent a 16% increase in the biomass volume since 2008.

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Aquaculture is expected to show the greatest growth in supply, with production up by more than 75% over a 20+-year period and consumption almost doubling. However, the World Bank expects all of the aquaculture production to be used for human food.

According to EUMOFA’s study, mariculture is less constrained than land-based aquaculture and capture fisheries, and as much as 160 million tonnes of extra biomass could be produced within 20 years. At the same time, capture fisheries are expected to yield an extra 30 million tonnes for human consumption by better management of established fisheries (20 million tonnes) and the elimination of discards (10 million tonnes).

Meanwhile, more than 100 million tonnes of protein and oils are estimated to be needed to service the expected growth in aquaculture. EUMOFA said that this is predicted to come from currently underused species such as krill and mesopelagic organism (20 million tonnes, but on a longer timescale), algae including seaweeds (upwards of 50 million tonnes), and better use of discards and processing waste (30 million tonnes).

Additionally, spoilage of seafood before it reaches the consumer has been estimated as 20% of the catch, and that 3070% of all fish that reaches a processor becomes by-product.

While it’s expected that these figures will be improved upon to make more food available for direct human consumption rather than available for non-food uses, there will still be considerable opportunity for use in the derivatives markets.

8 More than 50% of any finfish harvested does not go directly to human consumption

ALGAE OPPORTUNITIES The study, which is updated every two years, also highlights that algae and other aquatic plants have considerable development

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potential. It finds that worldwide algae production amounted to 31.2 million tonnes in 2016, with the sector growing by 103% over the last decade, and that China (14.7 million tonnes) and Indonesia (11.7 million tonnes) were the leading producers, followed by the Republic of Korea (1.8 million tonnes) and the Philippines (1.4 million tonnes).

EUMOFA said that an increasing number of SMEs are developing high added-value products from macro- and microalgae. But it added that the EU was ranked only tenth in the world with 91,000 tonnes, putting it behind Japan, Chile, Malaysia, Norway and Tanzania. The bloc is therefore heavily reliant upon imports. For example, buying in 76,000 tonnes or €41 million worth of algae for uses other than human consumption last year.

As such, the potential for the development of the algae market in Europe is “considerable”, said EUMOFA, citing increased public concerns about the use of herbicides, pesticides and fertilisers; and that finding biological and organic alternatives offers a point of strength for the seaweed extracts market.

Moreover, the trend in EU and national legislation to limit the use of synthetic additives and antibiotics in feed ingredients is a “powerful market driver” for sustainable feed ingredients, and another good opportunity for algae extracts, it said.

More broadly, the new and potential uses of algae encompass the following key products and sectors: 5 Nutrition – omega-3 and omega-6 for human consumption and fishmeal 5 Bioplastics – renewable plastics based on cultivated algae 5 Methanation – especially based on green algae blooms causing coastal pollution

5 Pharma – seaweeds contain a variety of phytochemical properties that can be used in the prevention and treatment of health diseases. Also, carotenoid pigments from brown algae are recognised for their antioxidant activity as well as positive health effects Additionally, recent interest from the bio-fuel and bio-tech industries in the macroalgae sectors will probably generate further perspectives and may also lead to the development of macroalgae farming in Europe, said EUMOFA. NURTURING PROGRESS Because it can increasingly contribute to the responsible and sustainable use of marine ecosystems, the blue bioeconomy has climbed up global, regional and national agendas in recent years. This has led to some governments increasing their support through tax incentives and favourable regulative frameworks.

Despite the generally positive outlook, EUMOFA’s study stresses that investors need reliable information in order to evaluate the new investment opportunities in this fast-growing field. It also states that while Europe is “on the right track”, having established a good platform to foster this innovation and develop projects, the process could still be accelerated through a number of steps.

At the forefront of these measures should be making sure that the blue bioeconomy becomes a fully-recognised industry within the EU’s wider bioeconomy by the public, the financial community and investors; and also ensuring that appropriate funding and finance vehicles are available to support its progress, it said.

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TRACING THE HISTORY OF THE COD HUNTERS The Cod Hunters is an exploration of the cod fisheries of Shetland from the early nineteenth century, writes Sylvia Bates There are few people better qualified to chart the history of Shetland’s fisheries than John Goodlad with his remarkable depth of knowledge. With a career behind him that includes serving as chief executive of the Shetland Fishermen’s Association, chairman of Shetland Catch and numerous other roles, today he acts as an advisor to various national and international fisheries organisations.

This is a handsome book, eminently readable and interspersed with relevant and interesting pictures. It’s clear that the author has a comprehensive understanding of both contemporary and historical fisheries in not only Shetland but across the Atlantic region. In this book he successfully conveys this with accurate and concise information, presented through the stories of individuals and communities, linked with the bigger events of trade and politics. These stories, often personal and always relatable, engage the reader while simultaneously communicating the facts and atmosphere of these times.

The Cod Hunters opens with the first Shetland cod fishermen in 1818, detailing the discovery and early fishery, right up to the sinking of the last Shetland smack in 1909, and further on to the legacy of the Shetland and Faroese cod fishery until the late twentieth century. These chapters reveal not only the individuals and communities of Shetland, but go further afield to the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland.

The reader follows the birth of the Shetland cod fishery and over subsequent chapters the up and downs of this industry over the course of the 19th century is explained through the stories and experiences of the key figures. We see how the cod fishery became the backbone of a community’s prosperity, and are told the tragedies of its failure in lean years. The fishery is placed in the larger context of its European role and role in export markets, and demonstrates how it compared to other fisheries during the same period. It is when the book delves into the personal stories of fishermen and of the lives of the boats that the reader gets a personal sense of the people behind the great events.

The decline of the Shetland cod fishery is not the end of the story, merely the jumping off point for a new chapter, the rise of the Faroese cod fishery. The importance of the Shetland smacks and their new lives in the Faroe Islands forms the narrative leap from Shetland to the Faroes, and the reader is led into a new chapter not just in the book but in the history of the cod fishery.

As the story diverges, the Shetland fishermen continue to play a role, their legacy still a part of the cod fishery and having a role to play with a new generation of fishermen in a different land. Having led us through a chronological journey, the book spends some chapters introducing the reader to different aspects of the cod fishery and the role they played. We find out more about the importance of navigation, railways, smuggling, the salt-curing methods used, and the gear used. We also find out much more about the individuals involved in the cod fishery; from the wellintentioned businessmen and their investors to the everyday work routines of the boys and men who worked the boats and docks.

Other chapters recall the special relationship between Shetland and the Faroe Islands, in particular the strong bond formed between these two communities. One chapter of note tells the story of a fisherman who moved to America - his

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account of growing up and fishing at the turn twentieth century is an intriguing and exciting chapter made poignant by its survival as a recording made in the 1950s. As the reader comes to the end of the book the cost of the cod fishery is expounded on, as the dangers and losses at sea are told through the lives of the men who were lost. The final chapters of the book explore the Faroese cod fishery, again emphasising the personal relationships forged between the Shetland and Faroese fishermen. The author takes the time to explore and present stories from the Faroe Islands alongside those of the Shetlanders. The historical story of the cod fishery in the Faroe Islands and the individuals that helped shape it are told by looking at the everyday working lives of the people and boats at the time.

This book ends with a reflection of the significance of the cod fishery, not to the modern world in general or its role in history, but to the small island communities that relied on it during times of great change.

The Cod Hunters succeeds in presenting the everyday lives of many ordinary individuals who would otherwise go unnoticed or uncelebrated. The details of day to day life are often so easily neglected, however this book conveys this alongside the largescale historical facts and context, showing how these two aspects make for a compelling and interesting telling of history.

8 John Goodlad’s book The Cod Hunters charts the history of the Shetland cod fishery

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Held over one and half days and culminating in a technical visit on the afternoon of the second day, the third Fish Waste for Profit conference will provide participants to see at first hand what they have heard about during the expert speakers’ presentations.

This year’s conference is for the first time being held separately from the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition and aims to highlight the ways to maximise the return on investment from seafood products with the utilisation and conversion of processing by-products, aiming at minimal waste, and the event features case studies from an international cohort of industry leading speakers.

“Fish Waste for Profit provides attendees with invaluable knowledge on how to maximise their return on investment from potentially discarded parts of the catch that can be turned into highvalue products for non-food sectors,” commented Mercator Media’s Marianne Rasmussen-Coulling.

“Crucially, the conference takes place in Iceland, the home to pioneers paving the way in by-product reutilisation and transforming the industry from one which was little known two decades ago but now has roots across the continents. Join us from 10-11th April 2019 in Reykjavík to discover how you could boost your profits by up to 43%.”

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FISH WASTE FOR PROFIT RETURNS TO REYKJAVÍK 5 Opportunities in the Icelandic and European market 5 Opportunities in the North American market 5 Production of fish oils, enzymes, dietary supplements 5 Leather, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals 5 Investment and financing – private and public Abstracts using case and 'real life' studies are the most engaging for our audience and therefore will be given precedence.

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now open. Companies, organisations and individuals are invited to put forward papers in the following categories: 5 Processing – techniques and equipment 5 Utilisation of discarded parts from wild catch vs aquaculture 5 Prospects for re-utilisation of shellfish and crustacean by-products

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FISHING TECHNOLOGY

VOLSTAD EMBRACES DIGITALISATION Fishing company Volstad Shipping AS has selected Inmarsat’s high-speed Fleet Xpress mobile satellite communications service to support the operation of its factory vessel The Ålesund-based company’s trawler Volstad has a broad range of automation on board to streamline catch processing, and to perform to optimal capability these advanced systems, and the sensors on which they draw, demand reliable ship-toshore connectivity. Keeping an eye on critical operational parameters and carrying out detailed trend analysis demands that equipment data is as fresh as the catch of the day. If something doesn’t seem right with the current status of shipboard equipment, support engineers need to be alerted so they can work with the crew.

Volstad’s technical manager Jan Rogne believes the seafood industry is becoming more attuned to the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) and related solutions, as a route for increasing productivity.

“The seafood industry is becoming more and more automated and adopting IoT and application solutions, which means many of our suppliers are using sensors and software to monitor equipment, such as winches, in real-time, to avoid costly service repairs and visits,” he said. Harvesting data over longer periods opens up the possibility of fine-tuning practices and can prompt other optimisations.

8 Inmarsat FleetBroadband allows Volstad to remain completely connected at any latitude

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With such a high level of automation, Volstad needed connectivity that allowed it to increase data usage for operational purposes significantly, in a cost effective way, while providing the crew with high-speed internet access over long voyages to maintain retention rates. The vessel sails with 18-20 crew and is typically at sea for up to six weeks.

Volstad Shipping decided to renew its contract with Inmarsat for 24/7/365 service management, monitoring and support, to match current and anticipated demand. After reviewing the options on the market, it settled upon Fleet Xpress, with 2Mbps download and 0.5Mbps upload rates.

“We were previously using Inmarsat’s Xpress Link but chose to upgrade to Ka-band Fleet Xpress, mainly because we needed a solution that could meet our increasing bandwidth needs, but would be reliable and allow us to predict and control costs,” Jan Rogne said.

Volstad is equipped to a very high standard and features various amenities to provide crew with a comfortable living environment. However, as Jan Rogne points out, crew welfare is about mental well-being as well as physical comfort.

“Fleet Xpress allows us to provide a higher level of crew connectivity and that helps keep the crew happy, allowing them to stay in touch with family and friends, as if they were at home,” he said.

“The additional bandwidth available on Fleet Xpress means this connection to shore is no longer limited to voice calls and short text-only emails, but includes video calls, as well as access to sports and social media,” he explained.

The 75m Volstad operates mostly in the North Sea, the Barents Sea and around Svalbard, where it focuses on cod, haddock and saithe, destined for the European market. These higher latitudes have historically created challenges for satellite-enabled communications, as coverage is typically focused on busier sea-lanes and more populated regions.

In this case, Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress takes an innovative approach by marrying the Ka-band part of the service with the proven L-band technology that powers its FleetBroadband connectivity in a unique managed service from a single supplier.

“The unlimited integrated back-up of FleetBroadband provides a huge advantage when operating in these regions and

8 Volstad’s owners upgraded to Inmarsat’s Ka-band Fleet Xpress to meet increasing bandwidth needs, for reliability and to allow the company to predict and control costs

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allows us to remain completely connected. We have no issues with connectivity even in areas north to the 0° elevation contour in the Barents Sea,� Jan Rogne said, commenting that the performance guarantee was a clincher.

To add further reliability, Volstad Shipping opted for a dual antenna set-up with an Intellian GX100 to handle the Ka-band and a Cobham SAILOR FB500 for the L-band.

Inmarsat believes the importance Volstad attaches to connectivity is emblematic of the digital transformation currently unfolding across the commercial fishing sector, and more widely across maritime. In fact, original research commissioned by the satellite service provider suggests that the maritime industry is more disposed to adopting analytic, management and operational tools applied through the Internet of Things (IoT) than many commentators have supposed.

Fishing vessel operators accounted for almost 5% of the 750 respondents to cross-sectoral research, which sought to investigate the use of IoT-based solutions across maritime, transport and logistics, energy, mining and agriculture. Among the findings collated in the Industrial IoT: Land and Sea report, it is predicted that average expenditure per business on IoT-based solutions will amount to US$2.5 million over the next three years.

The investment is being driven by the need for real-time monitoring and for the condition-based performance applications to be more cost efficient, cleaner and safer than ever before. Regulation is providing one spur; with rules tightening on emissions from ships, 65% of maritime respondents overall say they already use IoT-based solutions to monitor fuel consumption, rising to 100% by 2023.

For the moment, it is fair to say that fishing lags marginally

behind commercial shipping when it comes to using or trialling IoT-based solutions as part of everyday operations. However, the disparity may be short-lived: 57% of the 33 fishing organisations polled envisage uptake of IoT-based solutions over the next 24 months.

In some respects, commercial fishing operators such as Volstad Shipping are already ahead of the curve, already required to send regular catch reporting updates to shorebased teams as part of a raft of measures designed to manage quotas and prevent IUU fishing.

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FISHING TECHNOLOGY

Based on the company’s experience with its Type 14 doors, Thyborøn Trawldoor has introduced its new BlueStream Type 23 semi-pelagic doors. These powerful doors are predicted to result in significant fuel savings when demersal fishing, with no reduction in catches.

Hampiðjan’s Kristinn Gestsson joined trawler Kaldbakur recently for a trial trip with the new doors to give them their initial baptism under Icelandic conditions. He reported that the results took both him and the crew by surprise.

“These Bluestream doors are incredibly powerful. Kaldbakur had been using a pair of 7.50m2 Type 14 doors and fished well with them.

The new pair we tried out are a whole metre smaller at 6.50m2 and weighing 3800kg. The rule of thumb is that the door spread at a reasonable trawl depth is roughly the length of the sweeps, and that fits with their experience of the Type 14 doors. The sweepline length was 137 metres and the door spread was the same.

By switching over to the Type 23 doors, the spread jumped to 148 metres. That was towing at a depth of 100 metres and the doors were from two to seven metres off the bottom.”

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Photo: Hampiðjan

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consumption for the trip, but the engineers on board said that they immediately saw a significant improvement.

“We could have gone a step further and tried the 6m2 doors that we also had on board, and after discussion between Kaldbakur’s owners, the skipper and Thyborøn, the decision was to try out this size of trawl door, as we are convinced that the door size can be reduced further compared to this size of trawl, and that will yield further dividends,” he said,

8 Thyborøn Trawldoor’s new Type 23 BlueStream doors performed well in a first trial trip on board Kaldbakur

commenting that the trip as a whole had been a successful one.

“We were off the east coast the whole time.

We started fishing in bad weather in the Berufjörður Gully and had 50 tonnes of redfish and some saithe. Then we had 130 tonnes of cod on the Fæti grounds over the rest of the trip.

The catch was 200 tonnes for a week at sea.”

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SHRIMP TRAWL SETUP AS GOOD AS NEW AFTER TWO YEARS Delivered at the beginning of 2017, Newfoundland Victor operates across areas that range from practically clean to rugged ground where gear damage is inevitable

8 Newfoundland Victor is still fishing with the same Vónin trawls that were supplied when the ship was delivered new in early 2017

Speaking at the end of a 26-day, 680 tonne trip, skipper Mark Hartery said that Newfoundland Victor is still fishing with the Vónin 2014 trawls that were delivered to it in January last year.

“We fish from just north of Newfoundland, up to Labrador and into the Arctic on the Canadian side between Baffin Island.

We have to manage fishing different areas and quotas, working our way north. Because of the time of the year and the sea ice, we’ll soon be working our way back south, cleaning up our quota in each region in turn,” he said.

“When you’re producing at sea, there’s such a thing as too much,‘ he said, and explained that catch rates can vary significantly, although 10-12 tonnes in a tow is the preferred amount to keep the factory deck working and to maintain quality standards. At times you can have that in twenty minutes with one trawl. At other times you can tow for six hours with two trawls and not have that.”

“We work across so many different bottom types and we sometimes work some very uneven, rugged ground, and if you play with fire and you’re going to get burned. Sooner or later you’re going to do some damage. Other times we can have a full trip with no damage. But there’s no such thing as nomaintenance. Everything that moves is going to wear. We do a lot of maintenance, and the trawls we use are made in highstrength twines that reduce the water resistance.”

Mark Hartery expects to see a 70 metre spread between the doors with the trawls towed on 35 metre bridles and with a 1012 metre headline height. While the Vónin 2014 trawls are designed with the flexibility to be rigged for maximised height or spread, in practise the gear is rigged for a trip or a week.

“We can manipulate the gear, depending on the time of year and especially when you’re fishing far to the north in the Arctic, at night the shrimp are off the bottom and you need all the height you can get and always wish for a little more. But we find a happy medium between height and spread as it takes time

to make changes to the gear,” he said, and added that although plenty of maintenance has gone into them and sections have been replaced, the Vónin 2014 trawls on board Newfoundland Victor are still considered to be new – and still have plenty of life in them.

The complete gear package came from Vónin, including codends, bridles, doors and sorting grids.

“These get rid of most of what we don’t want,” he said. “We have sensors on the grids that show the flow and the angle, and as you see the grid angle decrease, you know that there’s shrimp making its way back to the codend.”

“We can say we are repeat customers for Vónin and have been using their gear for many years. I was using Vónin trawls before on the company’s other trawler, Newfoundland Pioneer, before taking over the new ship, and had been pleased with the trawls then. We have a close working relationship with Vónin.

This isn’t only about the quality of the fishing gear, but it’s also advice and troubleshooting – they are only a phone call away,” Mark Hartery said.

“It’s also not only that the trawls fish really well, as there’s also the quality of workmanship that goes into them. You can tell good workmanship, and these trawls are very good.”

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8 Shrimp trawl gear is made at Vónin’s Tórshavn net loft

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GARDAR ENGINE REFIT PROMISES NOX AND FUEL SAVINGS

Photo: Gardar AS

Wärtsilä is due to deliver its new generation Wärtsilä 31 engine to a Norwegian customer, and this is the first installation of such an engine to replace an older unit

Owned by Gardar AS, the 1998-built Gardar has an 18-cylinder V-configuration Wästsilä 32 main engine that has worked hard over the years, and this will now be replaced by the 10-cylinder Wärtsilä 31 engine, which is also in a V-configuration, and which is seen as the world’s most effective medium-speed diesel engine.

As part of the package, Gardar will be installed with Wärtsilä NOx Reducer emission after-treatment system with a compact silencer, and the propulsion layout will also be upgraded.

The refit is expected to result in a reduction to the pelagic vessel’s annual fuel consumption of 200,000 litres, as well as making a significant difference to its environmental footprint with an annual reduction of 88 tonnes of NOx. Lower fuel costs and NOx fees, combined with the longer service interval of the Wärtsilä 31 engine, is expected to result in significantly lower operating costs. The Norwegian NOx Fund

8 Norwegian fishing vessel Gardar has the honour of receiving the first Wärtsilä 31 engine retrofit

has committed a substantial amount of support for this project, resulting in a very satisfactory repayment period.

“We are extremely happy to be able to make Gardar more ecologically sound. The investment in retrofitting the vessel will quickly pay itself back in terms of reduced fuel costs and NOx fees.

We have been very satisfied with Wärtsilä’s engines and propulsions and consider installing NOx reducers to two more of our vessels,” said Christian Halstensen, owner and manager of Gardar AS. “We could not be prouder of this agreement, as it shows responsibility from the customer and gives us the opportunity to contribute to more environmentally sound shipping, commented Cato Esperø, Sales Director at Wärtsilä Services.

“At Wärtsilä, we understand that a project like this is an investment financially, but it is also an investment in our future.

We warmly support every action that goes beyond just meeting the environmental regulations.”

Corvus Energy to provide energy storage system for longliner Geir Corvus Energy’s Corvus Orca energy storage system (ESS) has been selected for installation on an innovative longline vessel now under construction at Vaagland Båtbyggeri for Norwegian longline operator HP Holmeset.

The Corvus system was selected by ACEL AS, which specialises in turnkey power systems and worldwide electrical installations on newbuilds, conversions and service work of marine vessels.

The new longliner is a Skipteknisk ST-156 XL design, scheduled for delivery in December 2019 and owners HP Holmeset are longline pioneers with a reputation for using innovative technical solutions to improve company performance. The new longliner was developed with Skipsteknisk, focusing on a highly efficient vessel design that ensures minimal environmental footprint, state-of-the-

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art work environment and high quality production capabilities.

The Corvus ESS battery, with energy storage capacity of 270KWh, will be installed in the A-CELL Propulsion System from ACEL. The scope of ACEL equipment in the new Geir includes complete engineering, electrical installation, including PMS, IAS and main switchboards and motor starter cabinets.

“We selected Corvus because of their extensive expertise and track record with energy storage solutions for the maritime industry,” said Martin Skåravik, Department Manager Power Systems at ACEL. “The battery solution from Corvus will enable substantial cost savings in addition to increased flexibility during operation. We have worked with the team at Corvus Energy before and we look forward to be working with them again on this project. In addition, we are

8 New longliner Geir is being fitted with a Corvus Orca energy storage system

cooperating on the NTNU Hybrid lab that we set up in Ålesund to test the solutions.”

“We are excited to be selected as the preferred supplier of batteries for this highly innovative design. The fishing industry, like all other maritime sectors, is seeking solutions to reduce overall operating costs and lessen the environmental impact. We see a clear increase in the demand for our products across all segments,” said Roger Rosvold, VP Sales at Corvus Energy.

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Around the harbour, engines are starting up one by one. Deck lights illuminate the water as the lobster boats, loaded with bait, traps, and barrels of rope, power off to the fishing grounds.

Harrington Harbor is home to 35 fishing vessels, and around 20 of them belong to men and women closely or loosely related to Frank.

One belongs to his wife, Heather. Two other boats are skippered by their sons, Spencer and Nathan. The boys’ grandfather, Gary Strout, is also a lobsterman.

“My grandfather did it, my wife’s greatgrandfather did it. I mean, we’ve been at it for quite a while,” Frank said. “My boys are the fifth generation. It just gets in your blood.

My 16-year-old son Nathan should call his boat Obsession, because he is definitely obsessed.”

Decades of commercial fishing give the Thompson family experience and insight into boats and engines that are well suited for Maine lobstering. The Thompsons agree that ample horsepower in a compact engine package is a key ingredient for speed, and three family members found that in the lineup of John Deere PowerTechTM marine engines.

Led by a friend who fishes with John Deere– powered boats, Gary Strout, was the first to purchase a John Deere engine, leading to a chain reaction within the Thompson family.

In 2015, Gary repowered his 2005 Triple H (named for his daughters Heather, Hilary, and Holly) with a PowerTech 6090SFM85. The 410kW engine powers the 11 metre Jonesporter to an impressive top speed of 30 knots.

Frank and Spencer both run new lobster boats powered by the 559kW 6135SFM85. The turbocharged and seawater-aftercooled engine delivers high torque at low speeds and is the most powerful marine engine produced

by John Deere.

On Frank’s Heather Ann a 6135SFM85 swings a 91x107-centimetre propeller through a ZF 350 transmission with a 2.5:1 gear ratio.

With that setup, the 14 metre Wayne Beal runs 25 knots at 2250rpm, even when fully loaded with lobster cages. Frank adds that it’s a clean-running engine.

ALL IN THE FAMILY – LOBSTER FISHING IS A TRADITION FOR THE THOMPSONS OF MAINE It’s 4am as Frank Thompson heads to Harrington Harbor and boards his lobster boat, Heather Ann. With a turn of the key, its John Deere engine comes to life, just as it has every morning

“I see a lot of engines that smoke. I’m gaining over 3000 hours now and it’s just clear as the day I got it.”

Spencer’s new vessel is a 13-metre Calvin Beal, Maxed Out. Shorter and lighter than his father’s boat, so the 6135SFM85 takes his hull to a top speed of 27.1 knots. The engine pairs with ZF marine gear with a 2:1 gear ratio and turns an 86x107-centimetre propeller.

“I’ve been impressed with the fuel economy and load percentage that I’m getting while cruising,” Spencer said. “I can run 20 knots at 1850rpm and only be at 62% load on the engine,

8 Spencer Thompson’s 13 metre Maxed Out steams at 27 knots

burning 87 litres an hour. And when fully loaded with 120 traps, 12 anchors, and a couple of barrels of rope, I cruise 17 knots at 70% load and burn 94.6 litres an hour.”

In addition to propelling the vessels, the John Deere engines’ auxiliary drives power hydraulic pumps for the steering and pot haulers. Frank’s 13.5L also powers a winch that he uses when dragging for sea urchins.

“I go out lobstering in the winter, so I have all of my drag gear on my boat and about 80 traps, so I’m really loaded at times. I use it all year, even if it’s 30° below, there’s no preheating the engine,” he said.

Wanting the same performance, Frank’s youngest son, Nathan, also plans to repower his Calvin Beal with a John Deere engine. That would bring the Thompson tally to four John Deere engines in a four-year timespan.

Although the Thompsons each work independently on their own boats, there is a sense of togetherness, a shared passion, that is very satisfying, Frank said.

“We are very lucky that the whole family can do it and make a good living out of it,” he added. “It’s really pretty neat, you know; I’m very fortunate.”

8 The 14 metre Heather Ann features a Wayne Beal hull and runs 25 knots, even when fully loaded

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POWER & FUEL

Wärtsilä used the International Workboat Show in New Orleans to launch its first Wärtsilä-branded high-speed engine, introducing the Wärtsilä 14.

This is a high-speed, compact engine designed to fit requirements for limited space and weight, lower capital expense, to meet current and future global emissions regulations, and to provide customers with improved efficiency, safety, and environmental sustainability.

This new engine fosters Wärtsilä’s Smart Marine vision as the brand continues to offer customers increasingly wider options for meeting specific operational needs.

The Wärtsilä 14 is designed to serve either as main propulsion or auxiliary genset and is ideal for hybrid installations. This small but powerful

It heralds entry into a new, strategically important market for our brand, it reinforces our global position as leader of fully integrated technologies and hybrid solutions and bears testimony to the tangible benefits of our close cooperation with Liebherr

WÄRTSILÄ BROADENS SMART MARINE PORTFOLIO WITH HIGH-SPEED WÄRTSILÄ 14 8 Wärtsilä expect the new highspeed engine to set a benchmark standard based on its compact design, and financial, operational, and environmental benefits

high-speed engine is available in 12- and 16-cylinder configurations, delivering a power output of 755-1340 KW in mechanical propulsion, and 675-1155KWe in auxiliary and diesel-electric configurations.

It is seen as ideal for applications in which power to weight ratio, fuel-type, efficiency, safety and environmental compliance are key considerations.

Developed in close cooperation with Liebherr,

one of the largest construction machine manufacturers in the world and a leading technology provider for a number of other industry verticals, first deliveries of the Wärtsilä 14 are planned for the latter part of 2019. Liebherr will be responsible for product development, classification and manufacturing of the engines. The new engine type will be backed by Wärtsilä’s global lifecycle support and services network.

“We are very proud of this small but mighty high-speed engine,” stated Stefan Wiik, Wärtsilä’s VP Marine Power Solutions.

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SUSTAINABLE FEED FOR NILE TILAPIA Despite significant progress over the years, aquaculture still poses concerns, such as over-reliance on wild fish and terrestrial plants such as soy, reports Bonnie Waycott

8 Alexandra Kariotis (Left) and Dr. Pallab Sarker (right) weigh juvenile nile tilapia for a growth trial

Now a US team of scientists has created an alternative feed for Nile tilapia using a marine microalga co-product. In 2014, aquaculture production in the total food supply overtook global capture fisheries production for the first time. Having surpassed wild fishing as the primary source of protein from the ocean, hopes are high for the world's fastest growing food sector.

Although more and more fish are being raised on farms, their feed consists of species such as anchovies or sardines, which applies pressure to stocks in the wild, leading to volatile supplies while competition for such species is making fishmeal and fish oil increasingly expensive.

To address this, considerable efforts are being made in aquaculture to reduce the industry's dependence on wildcaught feed. One example can be found in the US, where scientists at Dartmouth College are working with algae meal to replace fishmeal and fish oil in Nile tilapia diets.

"If feed is going to become more sustainable, we must find alternatives to fishmeal and fish oil because of the environmental, food security and financial drawbacks of these ingredients," said Professor Pallab Sarker, a research assistant professor at Dartmouth's Environmental Studies Program.

"Aquaculture is the largest consumer of fishmeal and fish oil, using 70% of global supplies. Current levels of exploitation, and the diversion of forage fisheries to produce fishmeal and fish oil undermine human food security and marine biodiversity.

Terrestrial plant ingredients are useful but highly unsustainable and insufficient to achieve nutritionally complete diet formulations. This is why we are working with marine microalgae."

ESSENTIAL FOR GROWTH AND QUALITY Professor Sarker and his team focused on Nannochloropsis oculata (N.oculata), a type of marine microalgae that is currently grown commercially. Oils extracted from it are used in products such as nutraceuticals and biofuels. After extraction, what

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remains is algal meal (co-product) that's rich in protein and omega-3 fatty acids. One of those, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), is said to be essential to fish growth and quality.

"Marine microalgae offers several advantages over terrestrial crops, such as improved land and water-use efficiency, better environmental sustainability and it can produce many times more biomass per unit area than terrestrial crop plants. It has tremendous potential for the lowest combined carbon, freshwater and arable land footprints," said Professor Sarker.

"The large amount of DHA or EPA (omega-3 fatty acids) in microalgae can prevent a range of human diseases, while microalgae may soon become a cost competitive substitute for fishmeal and fish oil because of technological improvements that lower microalgae production costs."

To conduct their experiments, the scientists determined the nutrient digestibility and levels of nutrients and anti-nutrients present in dried whole cells of N.oculata and co-product. Then, standard tilapia feeds were formulated where co-product replaced 0%, 33%, 66% and 100% of fishmeal respectively. For the first three weeks of the experiment, the diets were administered at a rate of 10% of body weight each day, followed by 8% of body weight until the 6th week, 6% until the 9th week and 4% until the 12th week. The effects of replacing varying percentages of fishmeal with the N.oculata co-product were determined by quantifying the final weight of the fish, weight gain, weight gain percentage, feed conversion ratio (FCR), specific growth rate (SGR), protein efficiency ratio (PER) and survival rate.

NUTRIENT-DENSE CO-PRODUCT Results showed that the N.oculata co-product had higher protein content than the whole cells. The co-product was also highly nutrient-dense, offering the highest digestibility of EPA and lysine. However, digestibility values for crude protein in the N.oculata co-product were significantly lower than the whole

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cells. The results also showed a similar growth, feed conversion and survival rate between tilapia fed a diet replacing 33% of fishmeal with Nannochloropsis co-product and tilapia fed a conventional diet. Increasing the level of N.oculata co-product lowered these fish performance levels, but did not depress other factors such as feed intake and palatability.

"We detected good growth, feed conversion and survival of tilapia that were given a diet replacing 33% of fishmeal with N.oculata co-product. But fish performance was less effective the higher the level of co-product," said Professor Sarker. "This means that we may need to improve nutrient digestibility by enhancing the co-product with one or several enzymes."

The Dartmouth study is the first report into the effects of a microalga co-product in tilapia feed. It suggests that lower trophic level aquaculture species such as tilapia, carp or shrimp may perform better with higher levels of co-product in their feed compared to higher trophic species such as salmon or red drum, and emphasizes the need for further information on antinutrients in microalga co-products, their impacts on aquaculture feed and what needs to be done to improve nutrient digestibility. Professor Sarker and his team believe that developing algal ingredients that can be digested easily will have a positive impact on feed conversion ratios.

"The possibilities are exciting, as we now have an opportunity to move aquaculture feed away from fish-based ingredients and towards fish-free feeds based on marine microalgae and co-products. Our findings provide new insight into how we might be able to achieve this," Professor Sarker commented.

As part of the team's aim to eliminate the reliance of aquaculture on wild fish and terrestrial crops, a new project is

underway to combine N.oculata co-product with other types of marine microalgae. The team is also trying to find out whether adding one or more non-starch polysaccharide and protease enzymes to N.oculata co-product diets will enhance nutrient digestibility, retention and growth in Nile tilapia.

"In future, microalga co-products will need to become costcompetitive with conventional protein sources for aquaculture feed. Only then will the feed industry use them," said Professor Sarker. "Fortunately, there are some leading microalgae companies that have innovative business models to meet this challenge, such as multi-product bio refinery approaches. I believe there is a lot of opportunity in microalgae, and it will take us far."

8 Dr. Pallab Sarker (left) and Anne Kapuscinski (right) catch and record individual tilapia for a growth trial.

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HERALDING A NEW ERA OF TRANSPARENCY AND ENGAGEMENT Julie Hesketh-Laird, the recently appointed Chief Executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, speaks at length to Owen Stevens for World Fishing & Aquaculture

8 The SSPO represents over 90% of marine production in Scotland and has just eight producer members, whereas membership of its predecessor, the SSGA, stood at 94 in 1988

Recent news items highlighting seal shootings, disease transfer between farmed and wild salmon, coupled with stories of increasing chemical reliance in the battle against rampant sea lice outbreaks have left many in a state of confusion and raised a question mark over the ongoing sustainability of farming Atlantic salmon. Viewers of the BBC One Show and readers of national newspapers, including the Times, Guardian and Herald, could be forgiven for thinking that the Scottish salmon aquaculture industry has a lot to answer for.

The need to resolve criticisms such as these, and to effectively represent the collective voice of a geographically scattered industry group, were some of the factors that led to the formation of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO). Replacing the former Scottish Salmon Growers 8 Julie Hesketh-Laird is the SSPO new chief executive, having moved over from the Scotch Whisky Association

Association (SSGA) and bringing multiple industry matters under one umbrella, the SSPO, in its current guise, was formed in 2006. Nowadays, the SSPO tends to a broad range of trade and industry affairs, including management of quality marks, such as Label Rouge.

Following the retirement of Scott Landsburgh in early 2018, a new hand has come to the helm of the SSPO; Julie HeskethLaird is the organisation’s new chief executive, having moved over from the Scotch Whisky Association. Against a backdrop of renewed industry criticism and an ongoing Scottish parliamentary investigation into the salmon farming industry, she has had a sharp learning curve.

“I’ve been phenomenally busy learning about the industry and meeting industry partners over the last six months,” she said, adding that the status quo, if there ever was one, is not an option for the sector. “I can see an opportunity for the salmon industry to better engage and to have more meaningful relationships with people that have different ideas. I see everything to gain by being more open.”

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I can see an opportunity for the salmon industry to better engage and to have more meaningful relationships with people that have different ideas. I see everything to gain by being more open

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“The changes I’ll be putting in place require capacity. It takes time to sit with people and to engage. It will involve getting with scientists and fish health people, sharing information, a load of analysis on our data, some internal conversations about what we mean by our transparency agenda, what are the expectations of stakeholders, what will satisfy them, and actually what will help satisfy the industry itself towards this common goal.”

REPOSITIONING To facilitate this, two new key appointments have been made; a new director of sustainability, Anne Anderson (formerly compliance chief at SEPA) plus a new director of strategic engagement, Hamish Macdonell (formerly Scottish political editor of the Times and the Scotsman) are recent additions to the SSPO team. While the organisation repositions itself, it is clear that we can expect to be hearing more from it – along with an increased accessibility to industry data. While all members follow a code of good practice (CoGP), they now also voluntarily submit monthly sea lice and mortality data. The intention is to become increasingly transparent moving ahead.

This agenda starts at the top.

“My door is open and I’m learning who the people are that we need to be sitting down with and talking to right now,” Julie Hesketh-Laird said.

With a turnover of £797 million in 2016, farmed Atlantic salmon is now the biggest value seafood item in the UK domestic market, as well as the UK’s largest food export. In some respects, it appears ironic that an industry which invests over £50 million in innovation and £10 million a year in research finds itself on the back foot. Statements mentioning the industry’s intent to double production by 2030 have proved incendiary to critics. On this topic, Hesketh-Laird notes that, “The industry has stated its intent to double its value by 2030.

Value and volume are linked but are obviously not the same.

Five percent annual growth would get us there. Framed in that way, I believe this goal can be achieved sustainability”.

INDUSTRY MAKING HUGE EFFORTS Clearly, the goal is a value proposition and indeed the industry could do with producing a few more fish, if it is not going to become a bit player in the global game. Always playing second fiddle to Norway and Chile, Scotland’s market share of global production volume declined from 18% to 8% between 2000 and 2016. Growth in Scotland’s salmon farming industry has barely budged in the last two decades. Compare this to Norway’s volume growth of 280% over this period, or 320% for the Chilean sector, and one is left asking why the industry in Scotland has not expanded in line with the markets it supplies.

Evidently, biology and predominantly gill health issues are a major factor. Scotland’s waters are warmer than Norway’s - and they have become significantly warmer in recent years, possibly accounting for an increased prevalence of amoebic gill disease and indeed sea lice, amongst other challenges. Hesketh-Laird has her own perspective on this.

“The industry is making huge efforts on disease management, gill health issues, sea lice, cleaner fish and many others. We need to communicate what is being done,” she said. “It’s the industry’s social license that needs work. We need to work harder at gaining trust and shine a light on the good work that’s going on.

Social license has to be earned and you will only improve social license if you improve understanding. It’s not the biology or carrying capacity [that has halted the growth of the sector]. It is less biological and more relationship issues that are at fault, it’s the regulatory regime and the conversations people in Scotland have with each other. We need to reset the questions and take the heat and the tension out of the conversation. We need to build trust as well.”

DYNAMIC CONSOLIDATION Although the SSPO represents over 90% of marine production in Scotland, it has just eight producer members, whereas membership of its predecessor, the SSGA, stood at 94 in 1988.

This bears testimony to the sector’s rapid evolution. Against a backdrop of challenges, both biological and economic, the industry has seen dynamic consolidation occur after years of mergers, acquisitions - and closures. Despite having consolidated to approximately one tenth the number of owneroperators that existed in the 80s, the industry still operates many small, relatively low-tonnage sites. According to Ben Hadfield, managing director of Marine Harvest Scotland, the sector produces around 170,000 tonnes of salmon on 207 farms, whereas Norway’s output is over 1,200,000 tonnes from 250 sites. An industry move to bigger, more exposed sites seems inevitable, albeit with due caution and consideration – especially with regards to the welfare of farm workers as operating offshore is not something to be undertaken lightly.

8 Farmed Atlantic salmon is now the biggest value seafood item on the UK domestic market, with a £797 million turnover in 2016, and is the UK’s largest food export

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The industry is making huge efforts on disease management, gill health issues, sea lice, cleaner fish and many others.

We need to communicate what is being done Looking ahead, both the SSPO and industry have their work cut out for them. Although huge strides have been made in mitigating fish health and welfare concerns, reliance on wild fish inputs have declined, and much has been done to curtail environmental impacts, it is clear that producers must engage more openly with all stakeholders. Avenues of cooperation with wild fisheries, recreational anglers, political interests and an array of special interest groups must be actively sought and nurtured.

It will never be enough to reduce seal mortality to zero (although this is on the horizon) or to conquer the threat of sea lice, or highlight the carbon-friendly nature of salmon aquaculture (under a tenth the footprint of beef).

“It’s a relatively new industry,” she points out. “There will be bumps and grinding of gears in the process. We ought not to be surprised at the level of scrutiny. We need to get better at dealing with it and telling the world how we are getting on top of it. We don’t forage for vegetables or hunt for meat anymore.

Fish farming is just taking its place alongside poultry farming and everything else.”

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PIRIOU DELIVERS COMATA’S NEW LONGLINER

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Piriou Group’s shipyard in Vietnam has delivered a new ice-class longliner Réunion-based operator Comata to fish for Patagonian toothfish in waters around French TAAF territories

The new Île de la Réunion II is a 62.80 metre freezer longliner with a 12.40 metre breadth, designed by Piriou Ingenierie. It was ordered in June 2017, and replaces the older Île de la Réunion, which was built by Piriou in 2002 and which is now expected to be converted to operate as a fisheries patrol vessel.

The new longliner was christened at a ceremony in Réunion, attended by officials and administration representatives, local partners, crews, and by Yves Audo and Sylvain Pruvost, the chairmen of Agromousquetaires and Scapêche.

Operating company Comata has been based in Réunion since 1993 and has a long background in the toothfish fishery.

It currently employs a workforce of 40 locally, and 80 of the staff are from Réunion, plus the new vessel’s crewing rotas have been revised, which creates an additional fifteen jobs.

“Scapêche and Comata support the French fishing industry and economic activity in Reunion," said Sylvain Pruvost at the christening ceremony, commenting that the new vessel represents a clear step towards achieving the Sustainable Fisheries 2025 programme initiated by parent company Agromousquetaires, one of France’s major food retailers. This delivery to Comata is a confirmation of the long relationship the Piriou yard has enjoyed with Comata, the Scapêche group and their Mousquetaires parent company.

“We are proud and delighted to continue this longstanding collaboration with Comata and the Scapêche group,” said Piriou CEO Vincent Faujour.

8 The new Île de la Réunion II has been delivered to Comata

by Piriou Group’s Vietnamese shipyard

“With this new generation longliner, we continue to support our customers in renewing their fleet for toothfish fishing in the EEZs of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories.”

He added that the recently established Piriou Reunion will also enable the company to provide support to this new vessel in the Indian Ocean. “We continue to support our customers where they need us,” Vincent Faujour said.

The new vessel is equipped with diesel-electric propulsion with two 900kW propulsion systems providing flexibility in energy management, simplified maintenance and fuel savings.

Power is provided by four 975kVa diesel engines. Île de la Réunion II has tank capacity for 525m3 of fuel and 110m3 of fresh water. Accommodation on board is for up to 45 persons. Crew comfort and safety were key considerations during the design process and construction at Piriou Group’s shipyard in Vietnam.

Mustad supplied the longline system, which is hauled through a centreline moonpool, contributing to better catch quality and safer working conditions for the crew, as well as minimising bird strikes on the line, which does not break the surface as it is hauled.

In order to be able to operate in zero discard areas, this new generation longliner is also equipped with a treatment plant for fishing waste. This is ground and stored in two dedicated tanks with a 95m3 combined capacity.

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8 The wheelhouse control position on board Île de la Réunion II Far left: Mustad supplied the complete longline installation

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JOYFUL SPIRIT, BUILT FOR LOW-COST RUNNING The C Toms & Son yard at Polruan in the south-west of England has completed a trawler designed for high performance with modest power, reports Phil Lockley Designed by Ian Paton of SC McAllister, Joyful Spirit PH-29 started life as an order for Lankford & Sons, but a change of ownership took place during the build as the trawler was completed for Roger Klyne of Lowestoft company R&B Fishing, joining its fleet of similar high-tech inshore trawlers.

At 11.95 metres in length, the new Joyful Spirit has a beam of 5.50 metres and a moulded depth of 2.98 metres, with capacity for 5000 litres of fuel, 500 litres of fresh water and a fishroom with space for a hundred 40kg boxes.

For skipper Scott Govier, there is an element of regret is leaving the wooden-hulled Hope SU-514 that he has skippered since it was delivered by C Toms in 2003, but the new vessel offers significantly greater opportunities and has already made impressive landings through Plymouth Trawler Agents.

Joyful Spirit’s design owes much to previous Ian Paton designs built at Toms, with the new trawler’s hull identical to that of New Seeker, while the whaleback and superstructure are modelled on Spirited Lady III. “The hulls of the New Seeker and the Joyful Spirit are identical,” Ian Paton explained. “Both have propulsion through a tunnel system to keep the draft down but retain a good water flow to the propellor; it’s designed to be a good towing boat, and like the others, fins are fitted to the bulbous bow to reduce pitching, and for better steerage fins are also fitted on the rudder.”

“As far as the internal arrangements of Joyful Spirit are concerned, in comparison to the New Seeker the fuel tanks have moved slightly further forward, the whaleback has been raised, and like on the Spirited Lady III, the shelterdeck has been extended to give better cover over the winch. A similar 12m boat is under construction at Ardmaleish Boatbuilding Company on the Isle of Bute.”

STABLE DESIGN “We hadn’t had the boat long and after a couple of days got used to the boat’s movements, it is nothing like the last one, the Hope, a good traditional boat that served me well for 15 years. But it wasn’t until the weather freshened that we realised how stable new designs like the Joyful Spirit are, having totally different sea keeping to a traditional hull,” skipper Scott Govier said.

“Joyful Spirit rolls a bit with the sea on its quarter but all boats do that. I’m so surprised how stable and comfortable the Joyful Spirit is, and working the boat is so much more efficient, it is far easier to handle the nets. The layout of winches and pounds has taken all the strain and backache out of working. Tasks we used to have to struggle with are now so easy.’

“It’s a bit early to know the exact fuel consumption but after three days fishing, plus all the trials and steaming to Plymouth after the launch, we have just filled the tanks with 1690 litres, I would have expected the total to about 2300 litres, so it looks promising. This Volvo engine with the added hull efficiency, and the gearbox reduction (5.95:1) plus the nozzle is bound to give better figures,” he said.

While Hope had a Scania main engine, the decision was taken to fit the new vessel with a Volvo main engine, partly due to the ease of access to Volvo’s engineering services around the new trawler’s areas of operation. The main engine is a Volvo

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Penta D13MH driving a 1600mm diameter four bladed propeller with nozzle via a ZFW 350 5.95:1 reduction gearbox with a 5.95 reduction. Joyful Spirit’s auxiliary engine is a Volvo Penta D5 MG. The deck equipment and hydraulics were supplied by Spencer Carter, while Hercules Hydraulics carried out the hydraulic installation and testing. Joyful Spirit has a three drum main trawl winch with a mid-drum pull of eight tonnes “This type of winch is now pretty standard on that design of boat and are all made to the highest specification. Trawler skippers now want as much drum capacity as possible and in each case, if the design of the boat will allow it we provide what the skipper requires. The winch is almost identical to the one we supplied to the Spirited Lady III,” said the Spencer Carter’s technical manager Richard Carter.

8 Joyful Spirit’s design owes much to that of previous Ian Paton-designed coastal trawlers built at C Toms & Son

8 Spencer Carter delivered the three-drum winch and net drums

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“We also supplied two aft net drums each having splitters on the core to take storage of various lengths of combination ropes. This enables the skipper to mix-and-match without having to keep all the combinations on the winch drum.”

MARINECO TRAWL GEAR “We have supplied what has become a traditional rig for this type of twin-rig boat. This class of boat has evolved to become a major part of the South West fleet and I don’t think the demand to have those boats built will stop,” said Clive Palfrey at MarineCo, which supplied Joyful Spirit’s full trawl gear setup.

This starts with a 2m2 pair Polar Hercules 1.2r doors sourced through Coastal Nets, and a tailored set of warps with 12mm on the outer drums and 13mm wire on the middle drum, with righthand lay wire on the centre and starboard drums and left-hand lay wire on the port drum.

The nets are our standard 12-fathom Palfrey twin-rig trawls, gear designed and made at MarineCo, rigged on footropes with six and eight inch diameter discs and chain danglers in the centre to add weight, along with a set of four 100-fathom sweeps in 28mm Randers combination rope with a fibre core and a four-strand construction.

“The boats are chasing cuttlefish, monkfish and lemon sole, also squid, and there is sufficient lift. Twin rigging is generally not for roundfish, but its capture is still important. Also, from our findings, higher lift twin rig nets are no better at herding more squid into the net,” Clive Palfrey explained, adding that with the discard ban in mind, there have been modifications to many of the MarineCo designs.

“To catch less of whatever becomes choke species we have

re-designed many nets within our range. Some of the Greener Trawls are of lower lift to avoid haddock and other such species.

Some nets have increased mesh sizes to reduce as many discards as possible. The new Greener Trawls are modified in all sorts of ways to try and avoid the inevitable damage to the fishermen’s income that the discard ban might bring,” he said.

“The new Greener Trawls are there to give more selective fishing. The next few years will be a very interesting period.

British fishermen will have to cope with the discard ban, and quite what will happen after Brexit is also a worry to many.”

8 Skipper Scott Govier (left) with mate/crewman Scott Brehaut after Joyful Spirit’s maiden trip

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TWIN-RIGGER DELIVERED BY MACDUFF TO BUCKIE SKIPPER A twin-rigger delivered by Macduff Shipyards to skipper Steven Clark has made a strong start, fishing on grounds mainly from Orkney west as far as the Butt of Lewis, reports Dave Moore Steven Clark has spent his whole fishing career working from Buckie, and the new Caledonia III is the third trawler he has owned with the BCK-35 registration. He commented that the fully shelterdecked new vessel represents a big step from the previous vessel “While Caledonia II would have continued to serve me well, it is important to look to the future. Stocks are in good shape, consumer demand is strong and mate and son-in-law Jonny Roe is keen and strongly motivated, so now was the time to reinvest,” he said.

“Caledonia III is everything I expected plus a fair bit more. We expect to fish the new boat along similar lines to the previous one, working four- to six-day trips for most of the year from Scrabster, and grabbing a couple of days here and there whenever the weather permits during the winter months.

Macduff Shipyards have done their job to the full, now the onus is on us to do similar prove the capabilities of the new boat.”

The hull was developed in conjunction with Macduff Ship Design Ltd. using computer based CFD technology to minimise overall resistance and ensure a clean flow of water to the propeller to maximise propulsion efficiency. Macduff Profilers, a division of the shipyard, supplied the steel kit from cutting information supplied by Macduff Ship Design Limited. The steel kit was fabricated in Macduff Shipyards modern hall at Buckie, at the same time as all engine room and deck machinery was installed prior to launching.

Caledonia III measures 19 metres overall, with a 7.20 metre beam and a moulded depth of 4.10 metres Fuel capacity is 20,200 litres and 10,000 litres of fresh water are carried. The new trawler features a fairly conventional arrangement, divided below main deck level into forepeak, fishroom, engine room and accommodation cabin. At main deck level a watertight bulkhead forward of the catch reception hopper creates a separate winch room and a compartment containing a Geneglace 1t/day ice-machine and refrigeration equipment is located forward on the port side.

Macduff Shipyards produced most of Caledonia III’s deck equipment, including the three-drum trawl winch. Rated with a 23.80 tonne core pull, the winch is fitted with a Hägglunds CA140 compact drive motor. The winch drums are spooled with 275 fathoms of 20mm diameter compact trawl wire. The outer warps run across the top of the shelterdeck to sheaves at the

8 Shooting away the Faithlie Trawls gear through the stern hatches

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aft corners of the wheelhouse and to hanging blocks on the aft gantry. The middle warp runs under the wheelhouse floor before leading upwards to pass over a roller built into the transom rail above a secure track for the centre weight.

Two pairs of 5.60-tonne split net drums are arranged on the quarter in line with the transom shooting and hauling hatches, the lower edges of which are fitted with free turning large diameter rollers. Thistle Marine Ltd. supplied the MKB7 short post crane with tilting 24-inch powerblock fitted on the trawl gantry.

The codends are lifted aboard forward on the starboard side by a 5-tonne gilson over an hydraulically operated hatch and a large capacity reception hopper fitted with a sprinker system.

Once dropped into the hopper, the catch is fed onto a table leading aft for sorting and gutting. Gutted fish pass through one of the two fish washers before being given a final hand wash, after which the filled baskets are moved forward for weighing and labelling using a VCU Catch Management system positioned forward to port. Similar to the catch arrangements that worked well on Steven Clark’s previous vessel, this system is designed to deliver optimum levels of catch quality, particularly for megrim and cod which bruise easily.

Although Caledonia III is not expected to target prawns on a regular basis, a rectangular two-basket chilled prawn dip tank is positioned forward near the twin washers.

The fishroom has a working capacity of around 650 stacker boxes supplied by Box Pool Solutions. Stacks of boxes pulled forward to the deck hatch by a small hydraulic winch are lifted ashore from the fishroom using a Thistlelift MFB 8 stiff boom landing crane and 1-tonne landing winch.

8 Twin-rigger Caledonia III has been built by Macduff Shipyards for Buckie skipper Steven Clark

TWIN-RIG TRAWLS Faithlie Trawls supplied Caledonia III with two letterbox-style 200-foot trawls rigged on 6- and 8-inch diameter discs. The nets are specifically designed to catch target species such as megrim and monkfish. Faithlie Trawls also supplied a pair of 180-foot standard scraper nets rigged on a combination of 6- and 8-inch ground gear. Both sets of sturdily built twin-rig

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Caledonia III is everything I expected plus a fair bit more.

We expect to fish the new boat along similar lines to the previous one, working four- to six-day trips for most of the year from Scrabster, and grabbing a couple of days here and there whenever the weather permits during the winter months gear, which have been shown to keep their shape long-term and therefore keep maintenance to a minimum, are similar to ones that performed successfully on Caledonia II. The trawls are towed on sweeps made up of 60 fathoms of 28mm diameter six-strand combination warp and 15 fathoms of 20mm diameter wire rubber legs, together with short lengths of chain strategically positioned to indicate if the gear is in contact with the bottom as expected, with a 1000kg roller clump supplied by Macduff Shipyards and a set of Thyborøn Type 11 trawl doors.

Caledonia III has an electronically controlled Caterpillar C18 ACERT main engine supplied by Finning UK. This develops 447kW and delivers power solely to propulsion, driving a 2000mm diameter four-bladed fixed pitch Wärtsilä propeller inside a high-trust, low-drag Wärtsilä nozzle, via a Reintjes gearbox with a 7.409:1 reduction.

The stern gear package, including a triple rudder, was designed by the shipyard and manufactured by Macduff Precision Engineering. Sea trials showed an average top speed of 9.5 knots and economical towing performance.

A 182kW Mitsubishi 6D24TC variable-speed auxiliary engine is mounted on the port tank top. In addition to supplying the vessel’s main hydraulic system through a clutched pump connected directly to the engine’s flywheel, this auxiliary engine also drives a 48kW Mecce Alte 415/3/50 generator. A similarly rated generator is driven by a Mitsubishi S4KT engine. A backup hydraulic net retrieve system in the form of a clutched Dongi PTO unit is driven off the front end of the main engine.

ELECTRONICS Woodsons of Aberdeen supplied the electronics package fitted in Caledonia III’s wheelhouse, with an array of eight 19-inch Neovo and two 24-inch X type glass front screens, with an 8x8way matrix display selection switch, ahead of a central console and two control positions. An aft wheelhouse trawl console

8 Caledonia III’s skipper Steven Clark

overlooks the deck from the starboard quarter, providing an uninterrupted view as the codends are brought forward to be emptied.

A Hondex HE-7300Di dual frequency (50/200kHz) sounder is the primary fishfinder, with ground hardness output interfaced to the dual screen 3D Olex plotter. There are also two Sodean Easywin plotters - supporting a combination of Tide T8 charts, AIS and ARPA tracking, with position data derived from two Furuno GP39 GPS receivers and vessel heading provided a Hemisphere satellite compass. Two Koden radars provide ARPA and AIS tracking as well as through the plotters.

A Scanmar Scanmate double distance net system is used to monitor the trawl gear, and date from three Scanmar SS4 sensors mounted on the doors and roller, operating via a ScanMate bridge system, provides constant numerical and graphical updates of the openings of the two nets relative to the roller and how the central weight is positioned in relation to the trawl doors. This allows the position of the middle clump to be adjusted as required. Scanmar also supplied a headline flow sensor, enabling Steven Clarke to constantly monitor the symmetry of his gear.

The autopilot is a Navitron NT 921MK II digital set. A secondary jog steering lever, along with a duplicate set of Kolbelt engine controls, is positioned at the trawl console, as well as aft on the shelterdeck near the controls for the powerblock crane.

Satellite communications on board, including the Ecatch Elog system relaying information from the VCU Catch Management System, are handled by an eSEA 60Ka internet system an de-SEA 60 Satellite TV system.

Woodsons also installed an extensive CCTV systemI. Images from eleven HD cameras, together with an underwater video camera monitoring the propeller and triple rudder, provide comprehensive coverage across the quarter and trawl gantry, catch-handling area, winch, engine and fish rooms, in addition to fore and aft aerial views from the top to the radar mast.

8 Caledonia III’s wheelhouse has been fitted with electronics supplied

by Woodsons of Aberdeen. Far left: The Caterpillar C18 ACERT main engine

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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 mid water and demersal trawls for deepsea fisheries.

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Manufacturer of pelagic trawls, Vónin is a major supplier to the fishing fleet and semi-pelagic shrimpin trawls, aquaculture industrytrawls, with branches the Faroe various bottom trawls, purse and seine Islands, Greenland, Canada, Denmark Norway. nets, fish farming nets andsemi sorting Vónin manufactures pelagic trawls, pelagic grids.

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LIMA are specialists in the manufacture of meat-bone separators, deboning and desinewing machines for poultry, pork, fish, lamb and beef industries. 70 different models are available from 100 to 20.000 kg/hr.

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YM Fishing Corporation #586-10, Choryang-Dong, Dong-Ku, Busan 601-830 • Korea Tel: +82 51 469 2411 Fax: +82 51 469 2412 Email: longline@ympesca.com www.ympesca.com Contact: Hak Sam, Yoon (Mr) Nylon Monofilament longline and synthetic polyester longline. SS Tuna hook with ring, swordfish hook & tuna circle hook. Longline snap, branch hanger and all kind of longline swivel. YM PrimeLight chemical light, fishing luring light & strobe light. Tuna and swordfish longline fishing related all accessories.

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23F-2, No.2 Chung Shang 2nd Road Kaohsiung City, Taiwan , Zip code: #806

Technology for Sustainable Fisheries Developing and supplying technology to the world’s line fishing fleet.

We increase the profitability, safety and sustainability of longlining by using our knowledge and new technology to automate the fishing process.

Autolining is a passive and sustainable fishing method. The seabed is not damaged and the impact on the ecosystem is minimal.

Mustad Autoline – a better way to fish!

Over 30 years of experience producing quality Crate and Fish Tubs for the European market

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Tel: +47 70107580 Email: mail@mustadautoline.com Web: www.mustadautoline.com

Purse Seine Nets Trawl Netting Rigged Cages Pred & Bird Nets

3rd Generation HDPE

DESIGNER AND MANUFACTURER OF NYLON ET POLYETHYLENE TWINE AND NETTING Manufacturer of bottom trawls, twin trawls and mid water trawls for tuna, sea bass, hake, anchavy, sea bream and other species. Worldwide leader in the production of specialised purse seine nets for tuna, sardine, pilchard, etc. Le Drezen uses its own unique digital purse seine simulation program and Dynamit© Trawls in order to optimise gear design and keep customers’ costs down.

29730 LE GUILVINEC - FRANCE

www.fisa.com.pe sales@fisanet.com.pe

Tel: +33 (0) 2 98 58 10 54 info@ledrezen.com www.ledrezen.com www.ledrezen-tuna-net.com

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Ropes & Net Coatings

PUMP SPARES & COMPLETE PUMPS – ITALY –

Purse Seine Nets

Other Engine Room Equipment

Netting

PRODUCTS & SERVICES DIRECTORY

Rexnavi have supplied complete pumps and pump spares to trading and shipping companies for 20 years. We have our warehouse and workshop, and work together with local foundries/workshops.

commercial@rexnavi.it t: +39 0187 768139

Propulsion

www.rexnavi.it

RICH FISHING NETS CO., LTD. RICHAN NETTING MFG CO., LTD. Office: 9FI, Sealight BLVG, No.33 Shuixian Rd, Xiamen 361001, China Factory: Tangtou Industry Zone, Longhai, Zhangzhou 363105, China Tel: 0086-592-2106588 Fax: 0086-592-2106288 Email: sales@richan.cn xmnrich@china.com www.richan.cn Contact Michael Chen Professional netting manufacturer for Gill, Trammel, Purse Seine, Trawling by monofilament, multifilament, multi-mono, High Performance PE, Polyester, PE and PP, in knotted, knotless or braided. Our netting serves commercial fishing, fish farming, industry net, safety net and sports net. Our product range also include fishing line in copolymer, synthetic Rope & Twine, hardware, float and etc fishing accessories.

FISKENETT A/S

Specialists in the design and manufacture of gearboxes and controllable pitch propellers

All design, production and testing are done at our factory on the west coast of Norway.

Service is available all over the world from Finnøy’s experienced service engineers.

www.finnoygear.no

Van Beelen Group bv P +31(0)255 560 560 E info@vanbeelengroup.nl IJmuiden, Netherlands vanbeelengroup.nl vb-ropes.com D12 ropes and D3/D16 nets with Dyneema®.

Enkalon® nylon netting and ropes with the highest strength in the industry.

High tenacity Supercatch polyester products, and HDPE in Powerblue and Powergreen.

We make what works for you.

DESIGNER AND MANUFACTURER OF NYLON ET POLYETHYLENE TWINE AND NETTING Manufacturer of bottom trawls, twin trawls and mid water trawls for tuna, sea bass, hake, anchavy, sea bream and other species. Worldwide leader in the production of specialised purse seine nets for tuna, sardine, pilchard, etc. Le Drezen uses its own unique digital purse seine simulation program and Dynamit© Trawls in order to optimise gear design and keep customers’ costs down.

29730 LE GUILVINEC - FRANCE

Tel: +47 71 27 60 00 Email: post@finnoygear.no

N E T TING T WINES

Norwegian producer of twisted, braided and knotless netting for purse-seining and trawling.

Netloft for mounting and repairs of purse-seines.

Carretera de Catral, no 30 03360 Callosa de Segura, Alicante, Spain Tel: 0034 965 310 408 Fax: 0034 965 31 2166 Email: redessalinas@redessalinas.com www.redessalinas.com Contact: Srta. Carmen Salinas Manufacturer of special purse seining nets for tuna and horse mackerel, also trawl gear, ropes and twines

Leading manufacturers & Suppliers of Synthetic ropes in NYLON, POLYPROPYLENE,HDPE, POLYESTER, MIXED NYLON-POLYESTER, POLYPROPYLENE – POLYESTER in 3,4,8 & 12 strands in various lengths.

Esperanca Building, 7th Floor, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Colaba,Mumbai – 400 001,India Tel: +91 22 66562724/25 Fax: +91 22 66562798/99 Email: Sophia@foraxiom.com inquiry@foraxiom.com Web: www.axiomcordages.com

Full range of CP Propulsion systems: • Reduction Gearboxes: 150 - 12000kW • CP Propellers: 3-4 and 5 bladed, Ø1-6 m dia.

• Electronic remote controls • Nozzles: NACA 19A - FINNØY High Speed • Gearboxes with PTO - PTI and 2-speed solutions

Van Beelen ROPES

N-5936 Manger Norway Tel: +47 56 34 98 60 Fax: +47 56 34 98 70 Email: ulvatn@fiskenett.no www.fiskenett.no Contact: Hugo Ulvatn

REDES SALINAS S.A.

Europe’s largest commercial marine and workboat exhibition and conference. Over 610 exhibitors, more than 7,700 dedicated marine professionals from 70 countries around the world attend

Tel: +33 (0) 2 98 58 10 54 info@ledrezen.com www.ledrezen.com www.ledrezen-tuna-net.com

I-COATS N.V. K. Mercierlei 29 • B-2600 Berchem • Belgium Tel: +32 32 81 73 03 • Fax: +32 32 81 73 04 info@i-coats.be • www.i-coats.be Contact: Koen Van Goethem We offer environmentally friendly, waterbased coatings for ropes and nets made out of all types of synthetic fibers.

(ARAMIDS, HMPE, LCP, …) Tailor-made products developed to the needs of the market.

Waxes, acrylics, polyurethanes, pigments and specialty coatings (LAGO 45, LAGO BF 10A, ICO-LUBE 10, ICO-THANE 10, ICO-THANE 32, ICO – THANE 96, ICO-THANE 98) All coatings are compatible, allowing development for individual solutions.

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Fishing & Aquaculture Ropes

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Exporplas manufactures a wide range of ropes for intensive use in the fishing and aquaculture activities, providing innovative solutions worldwide.

Tel.: +351 256 790 340 Fax.: +351 256 791 825 E-Mail: exporplas@exporplas.pt

WWW. EXPORPLAS.PT EXPORPLÁS Indústria de Exportação de Plásticos, S.A. PO BOX 63 - 3886-908 Cortegaça OVR - Portugal

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Breidvangur 30 IS-220 Hafnarfjordur, Iceland Tel.Iceland: +354 5651375 Tel. UK: 01525 851234 Email: sales@markusnet.com Contact: Petur Th. Petursson We specialise in the development and manufacture of man overboard recovery systems suitable for all types of fishing vessels, such as the Markusnet and the Markus MOB Scramble-net/Cradle.

Designer & manufacturer of Pelagic, Semi-Pelagic & Bottom trawls since 1992 with active trawls in North Atlantic, Far-Eastern & Western-African fisheries.

COMPETITIVE PRICES WITHOUT COMPROMISE IN QUALITY

Complete range of high efficient trawl doors for demersal fishing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;off the seabedâ&#x20AC;? semi-pelagic fishing and pelagic fishing.

ReykjavĂ­k, Iceland

atlimarj@polardoors.com www.polardoors.com

Av. Ricardo Mella, 95 36213 Vigo, Spain Tel: +34 986 20 33 12 Fax: +34 986 20 60 05 E-mail: euroredvigo@euroredvigo.com Website: 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, twintrawls etc. Equipped with P.E., Redline, Moveline 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.

Trawl Makers

AKVASERVIS TRAWLS Email: office@akvaservis.lt www.akvaservis-trawl.com Tel: +370 46 365 363 Las Palmas - Baltic - Murmansk

Trawl Makers

MARKUS LIFENET LTD

Steel Wire Ropes & Trawl Wire

Ytterland, N-6050 Valderoy, Norway Tel: +47 7018 9494 Fax: +47 7018 9495 Email: sales@otsas.no www.otsas.no Contact: Olav Støylen or Einar Kjerstad Manufacturer of high quality ropes made with Dyneema, nylon, polyester, and many more

PEGUET & Cie 12 Rue Des Buchillons 74105 Annemasse, France Tel: +33 450 95 54 54 Fax: +33 450 92 22 06 E-mail: info@peguet.fr Website: www.peguet.fr Manufacture of Maillon RapideÂŽ quick links for permanent connection in aeronautics, architecture, rigging equipment, industrial supplies, sailing, parachuting & paragliding, professional fishing, tramways facilities, climbing.

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P.O. 19 FO-530 Fuglafjørþur P.O.Box Box 19 FO-530 Fuglafjørður Faroe Islands Faroe Islands Tel: +298 474 200 Tel: +298 +298 474 Fax: 474200 201 Fax: +298 474 201 Email: info@vonin.com E-mail: info@vonin.com Web: Web:www.vonin.com www.vonin.com Contact: Non Contact:Bogi Eystein Elttør Manufacturer of pelagic trawls, Vónin is a major supplier to the fishing fleet and semi-pelagic shrimpin trawls, aquaculture industrytrawls, with branches the Faroe various bottom trawls, purse and seine Islands, Greenland, Canada, Denmark Norway. nets, fish farming nets andsemi sorting Vónin manufactures pelagic trawls, pelagic grids.

VĂłnin is abottom major supplier togrids, trawl, shrimp trawls, trawls, sorting the North Atlantic/Arctic fishingand fleet. crab pots, net cages, mooring systems net We have all accessories in stock. washing systems.

MARELEC Food Technologies Redanweg 15 â&#x20AC;˘ 8620 Nieuwpoort BELGIUM Tel. + 32 58 222 111 Fax. + 32 58 239 280 sales@marelec.com www.marelec.com 35 years of experience in marine systems: â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Marine scales and graders. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; PORTIO fixed weight portion cutter. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Electronic logbook software, traceability. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Autotrawl systems for hydraulical winches, new winches and refit. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; For single and twinrig, danish seine, pair trawling, line fishing, beam trawling. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; OMEGA electronic mesh gauge. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MARELEC PULSE electric fishing.

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Randers Reb International A/S Engelsholmvej 28 8940 Randers SV Denmark Tel.: +45 89 11 12 13 Fax: +45 89 11 12 12 info@randers-reb.dk www.randers-reb.dk Contact name: Bent Herold

Thyborøn & Poly-Ice Trawldoors for all kinds of pelagic, semi-pelagic and demersal trawling with single, twin- and multipurpose rigging.

All doors are â&#x20AC;&#x153;Made in Denmarkâ&#x20AC;? according to customer demands and wishes.

8, Sydhalevej, DK-7680 Thyborøn, Denmark

mail@thyboron-trawldoor.dk www.trawldoor.dk

The Exocet An incredibly versatile trawl

Stability Durability Efficiency

Founded in Denmark in 1840, steel wire rope manufacturer.

The assortment includes steel wire rope, as well as rope works made of both synthetic and natural fibres. We offer a versatile range of products with programmes especially suited for all segments of the fishing industry.

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UNISYSTEM AB

Bergebyvägen 24, 684 34 Torsby, Sweden Tel. +46 560 14055

info@unisystem.se www.marinescale.com

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B ORN TO FISH.

Captain Michelle Rittenhouse is proud to be a third-generation commercial fisherman in the waters off Kodiak Island, Alaska.

She began fishing alongside her mother at age 7. After acquiring her grandfather’s fishing boat, she repowered the 1974 vessel with a John Deere marine engine. Rittenhouse says the “powerful little engine” is not only quiet and reliable, it has improved the boat’s speed and performance — allowing her to pursue her passion and continue her family’s legacy. “There is no doubt in my mind.

This is what I love doing.”

Read more about why Michelle Rittenhouse runs with John Deere power and find your why at JohnDeere.com/Rittenhouse.