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Automation and the UK seafood summary (summary report)

Exploring the trade-offs between new technology, mechanisation and traditional resourcing.

Aquaculture Common Issues Group. News alert. May 2021.

May news alert sent to ACIG subscribers on 3 June 2021.

Summary Document: Underwater noise, vibration, EMFs and impact on commercially important crustaceans

A summary on the impacts of underwater noise, vibration, and electro-magnetic fields (EMFs) from offshore renewable energy sites on on UK commercial crustacean species. The information provided is drawn from a literature review by St Abbs Marine Station.

UK Fleet Restructuring Model - Progress Report

This report contains the progress achieved on MAFF project A.2.1 which requires the development of systems and software to provide techno-economic analyses of policies aimed at restructuring the UK fishing industry. It describes a proposed mathematical model of the fleet in terms of financial viability, the object of which is to simulate performance given specific policy scenarios, providing detail information with regard to the development of regional fleet sectors 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

Seafood Ethics Common Language Group. News alert. February 2022.

February news alert sent to SECLG subscribers on 17 February 2022.

Digital First Aid at Sea Handbook - Welsh Language Version

A bespoke ‘First Aid at Sea’ handbook for the fishing industry. This digital handbook covers 12 of the most serious health incidents at sea on a mobile-friendly platform, to ensure fishers have access to essential first aid information at all times.

Packaging Audit of Billingsgate Fish Market

Pira Ref: J56401a rev 2 This report covers the packaging audit of Billingsgate fish market by Pira International, as contracted by Sea Fish Industry Authority. Billingsgate market was chosen for the audit because the market demonstrates how complicated trading and packaging flows can be at UK fish markets.

MAFF Funded English Channel Discard Study

In January 1995 the MAFF funded effort survey and discard study in UK towed gear metiers in the English Channel (ICES are VIId and VIIe) was initiated. This was to be carried out for 1 year in the first instance. This report outlines the methodology used to weight the sampling effort and describes preliminary results from the effort survey and the first quarter's sampling. An outline of proposed further analysis is discussed.

UK Fleet Restructuring Model - Mathematical Aspects

Whilst this report deals exclusively with technical aspects of the current SFIA approach to mathematical modelling of the UK Fishing Fleet, it is important to be aware of some background and justification. Early attempts at fleet modelling by the White Fish Authority led to the formation of the Interdepartmental Fisheries Modelling Group, with members from WFA. MAFF and DAFS. Their objectives were to predict the ‘best’ UK fleet composition required to take allowable catches foreseen under various scenarios of EEC policy and fishery resource conservation. This was first tackled using a linear programming (LP) model designed to allocate the fleet in some optimal way, such as to maximise overall profit whilst satisfying strict physical constraints (species quotas, vessel number, etc). Although LP solutions are often acceptable, the method has its drawbacks in applications such as this one. It invariably produces violent changes in fleet allocation in pursuit of some marginal benefit; it is extremely selective in deciding which parts of the fleet to use, ignoring the rest altogether; finally, it always gives solutions on the very limits of what is feasible. Nevertheless, the LP approach did bring benefits, such as amalgamating detailed data from England, Wales and Scotland. 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

Channel Discard Study - 2nd Interim Report

This report describes work carried out on the Channel discards study up until the end of May 1998. The number of trips in each metier is described and discussed in relation to the original targets set and the available data are presented. The successful efforts to trin fishermen to sample discards are described and discussed.

Squid Jigging Trials Aboard R.V. Squilla

The jigging trials carried out aboard ARCTIC HUNTER during September 1976 demonstrated that on some occasions at night, loliginid squid could be attracted by artificial lights and caught using Japanese automatic jigging machines. However the low catch rates achieved and the operational experience obtrained suggested that this method of fishing might find only a limited application in the UK. It was felt that the commercial viability of jigging would depend upon suitable operating conditions and the location of sufficiently large stocks of squid. It was concluded that jigging was an unsuitable method of fishing in exposed offshore locations because of the operational difficulties associated with rough seas.

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