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issue_01_oil_gas_email.pdf

A Guide for Ecological Risk Assessment of the Effects of Commercial Fishing (ERAEF)

This report reviews ecosystem risk assessment methods and describes in detail the method evolved in Australia by CSIRO.

Seafish Delivery Report 2015-16

Delivery Report for 2015-16

Part 10 Electrical Installations U15m 01Jan2013

Discarding in the English Channel, Western approaches, Celtic and Irish seas (ICES subarea VII)

Discarding is a common feature throughout global fisheries and of widespread management concern. The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) catch and discard data collection programme has been conducting sampling operations on English and Welsh registered fishing vessels in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) subarea VII since 2002. Within this subarea, these vessels were found to mainly operate in the English Channel, Western approaches, Celtic and Irish sea. We present the findings of this work and estimate the annual quantities of discards (fish and cephalopods) in terms of numbers and weights between 2002 and 2005 Keywords: Discards; By-catch; English Channel; Western approaches; Celtic sea; Irish sea

Options for improving fuel efficiency in the UK fishing fleet - key features

The key features leaflet contains a summary of the full report. Our intent in providing this summary is to clearly illustrate practical options to improve fuel efficiency to UK vessel owners and skippers. By providing this information we hope to encourage fuel efficient practices and provide guidance on evaluating investment in new equipment needed to adopt new practices, thereby enhancing the profitability of vessel business.

Fisheries Resource Access Mapping Project: The Co. Down Wind Resource Zone

This report presents an assessment of the importance to the Northern Ireland fishing industry of the Wind Resource Zone (WRZ) off the County Down coast. This work is an early output from FishRAMP being undertaken by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and Poseidon with input from the NI seafood industry through the Seafish Northern Ireland Advisory Committee (SNIAC) as well as funding and support from Seafish and DARD.

issue_23_oil_gas.pdf

The Possibilities of Labelling Fish by its Region of Origin

This report is a response to speculation shown in the industry regarding consumer reaction to the ability to identify fish by its area of origin within Britain, and whether, and to what degree, consumers would favour fish landed locally as opposed to non-local fish. SEAFISH commissioned a survey among a structured sample of principal shoppers, and this report presents statistics and resultant conclusions from this survey.

Shellfish flesh waste in bait

Shell waste is a major problem with UK production of waste from calcareous shellfish (excluding Nephrops and shrimp) of around 75,000t/yr of which potentially ~20,000t is flesh. Although there are many theoretical options for the use of waste shell few are commercially viable, often due to the costs of separation and cleaning. Previous work has shown it is possible to separate the flesh from the shell and supply the ‘free of flesh shell’ for use in aggregates; however this leaves the problem of what to do with the fleshy material. The current “Proof of Concept” project has focused on the use of shellfish waste derived flesh waste in commercial bait. A comprehensive set of trials with bait sticks prepared from scallop (King & Queen), whelk, and crab waste demonstrated that the fleshy waste from shell is a suitable material for baits. Whelk and crab waste formed very good baits for lobster attraction and were comparable to standard baits for whelk attraction

issue_15_2014_aggregates.pdf

Assessment of Stress and Mortality of the Prawn (Nephrops norvegicus) During Live Handling from Vessel to Market

Current handling techniques used to transport live Nephrops (Prawns) from capture to export can result in excessive stress and mortality. The feasibility of reducing both these factors, by using more appropriate techniques to hold live Nephrops aboard vessels, at live holding facilities and for air transportation was investigated. The feasibility of using a reduced water system (mist) for road transportation was also investigated.

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