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Storage Trials of Vacuum Packed White Fish

When kept under chill conditions vacuum packed cod fillets could be stored for up to 8 days before sour flavours were detected. Whole plaice could be similarly stored for up to 10 days. A novel vacuum packing technique using very simple equipment and a valved pouch looks promising.

Overview of data-limited stock assessment

This document gives an overview of how fish stocks are assessed when there are not sufficient data available to use conventional models. ICES’s methods for assessing data-limited stocks are outlined, also worldwide trends in data-limited stock assessments

Oysters and Norovirus

Bivalve molluscs can pick up contaminants, including norovirus. When infected bivalves are consumed, without first being cooked, consumers may become ill; as oysters are usually eaten raw, they can represent a higher risk.

Nutritional Profile - Turbot

The turbot nutritional profile provides the macronutrient, vitamin and mineral value of the fish caught in English waters.

Net Positive Fishing: Disruptive Seafood Harvesting Workshop

A report calling on industry to invest in new fishing net technology to reduce the impacts of bottom-trawling.Net Positive: Disruptive Seafood was supported by Seafish through the Strategic Investment Programme and delivered by Espersen, Icelandic Seachill, and Nomad Foods. The report follows a workshop hosted at FAI Farms in Oxford, which brought together seafood industry actors, scientists and technology developers from across a variety of disciplines, with the goal of creating and building support for innovative selective harvest design concepts, with the potential to transform the wild-caught seafood sector.

Fishing Trials to Evaluate the Use of Square Mesh Selector Panels Fitted to Nephrops Trawls - MFV 'HEATHER SPRIG' (BCK 181) - November/December 1990

The sea trials on the 'HEATHER SPRIG' were to assess the effectiveness of a square mesh window in the extension of a Nephrop dual purpose trawl. 80 mm and 70 mm panels were fitted within the 70 mm diamond mesh and comparisons of discards rates measured using the twin rig trawl technique. Both panels substantially reduced discards of whiting and haddock although latter was not a dominant species during the fishing period. 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.

A review of acceptable means by which towed gear discards may be reduced in ICES Area VII and VIII (NOVARRAST)

This report describes a study undertaken for the European Commission. It involved no research but aimed to draw fishermen into the process of improving the targeting of their effort and the long-term performance of their fisheries.

The Development of a Suitable Synthetic Replacement for the Traditional Cotton Drift Nets as Utilised in the Cornish Pilchard Fishery

Much work has been conducted by the Sea Fish Industry Authority into studying the potential of the currently under-exploited pilchard resources (Sardina pilchardus) present off the shores of south est England. Some twenty years ago the pilchard fishery formed the backbone of the economies of cornish fishing ports. today however, the pilchard is largely overlooked.

A Further Study of Amendment to the UK Fishing Vessel Licensing System: A Capacity Exchange System

Following the technical assessment of three proposed amendments to the UK fishing vessel licensing system, undertaken by Seafish at the request of MAFF and reported in TR 344, a further scheme for control of fleet capacity through restrictive licensing has been studied. The three amendments originally proposed by the Fisheries departments did not reduce capacity to the MAGP targets. The purpose of the further scheme was to see if a measure could be introduced to reduce capacity still more at the time an owner changes from one vessel to another. This scheme is based on the premise that, in order to introduce a new vessel into the fleet, licences of greater vessel capacity must be surrendered. Capacity is measured in terms of a Vessel Capacity Unit (VCU) formulation (VCU = L*B+0.45Kw), and derogation would be given for the direct replacement of a lost vessel. 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.

Initial Trials to Increase Acoustic Detectability of Drift Nets used in the Albacore Tuna Fishery

The drift net fishery for Albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) has been criticised for its alleged by-catch of small cetaceans which include dolphins. If it is possible to make a tuna drift net acoustically very detectable to dolphins then their risk of entanglement in the net is likely to be reduced. At the request of UK fishermen's organisations, Seafish and Loughborough University conducted a joint sea trial in Cornwall to examine some of the practicalities of increasing the acoustic detectability of a tuna drift net. The work concluded that it was possible to achieve an increased acoustic detectability by means of passive reflectors attached to the net, but this was at the expense of an efficient deployment of the nets and was unacceptable to fishermen. 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.

Supplement to SR324 - A study of the probable future fisher usage of the ports of Burghead, Buckie and Macduff

This report has to be read in conjunction with SR324 and provides supplementary information on how the capacity of the Buckie ice plant can be increased, how the Buckie market can be improved and the details and costs for insulation the Macduff market. 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.

Additional Material to Technical Report 236, A Study of Fresh Fish in the United Kingdon (BRS Consultancy)

The report condenses some of the material in Report 236 into a more convenient form with explanations of some of the computer print outs. 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

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