Safety Engineering and Equipment for Fishing Vessels under 20m - Results of Trials on Two Vessels 'Madalia' and 'Silverline'

Summary

Safety within the Fishing Industry is often a subject of debate and Seafish have addressed themselves to positively improve safety by both training and, as reported here, by demonstration on ‘Example Vessels’. The concept of ‘Example Vessels’ is to take existing vessels and then to work with the crews and owners to improve the level of safety and safety awareness. Two vessels were selected, the ‘Silver Line’ and the ‘Madalia’, both being inshore trawlers based at Bridlington. Following initial sea trips on the vessel various ideas have been implemented. Some are straight forward emergency measures, such as lifelines and a rescue net. Other ideas improve the layout of working conditions on the vessel. Novel designs have been evolved, such as a slip block to make the ‘blocking up’ operation safe on side trawlers and a four section fish washer was designed by the Skipper of the Silver Line. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

Publication Reference No.

SR354

Publication date

01 February 1989