40,000 tons

[Ian Burrett]

I have watched the postings on the Greenpeace thread, A commercial fisherman called binatone has put the blame on the lack of Cod in the North Sea on the Danes and Norwegions for taking all the sandeel. Basically he is saying the fish are starving.

 

Read todays Fishing News. One British registered vessell has landed 40,000 tons of Herring in just 7 days fishing from the North Sea.

 

I recon that would keep a shoal of Cod going for a few days.

[Guest johnfranz]

Ian what’s the allowable catch of herrings this year in the North Sea?

When you find that out. Then work out what a small amount 40,000 tons is when talking about such large amounts of fish.

The Danes where given a quota of 500000 tons of sand ell to catch in the first six months of this year. They have well over the catching capacity to do that within weeks of them being allocated that quota.

They did not catch anywhere near what they where given, therefore the Danish government finally came to there senses and stopped the fisheries before more damage could be done.

What I am trying to say Ian is that if fishermen catch what there allowed to catch then it’s not a bad thing.

You get the problems when fishermen are given a large quota and have the means to catch it but don’t.

Some one has got there calculations wrong. In this case it was the Danish scientists.

[Guest jay_con]

Typical . The moment it goes wrong the scientists miscalculated.

[Leon Roskilly]

binatone:

Ian what’s the allowable catch of herrings this year in the North Sea?

See:

 

 

European TACS & Quotas 2005

 

Herring

 

NON-SECTOR CATCH LIMITS FOR SEPTEMBER 2005 IN THE NORTH SEA (AREA IV), WEST OF SCOTLAND (AREA VI) AND AREA VII

 

1. North Sea Herring (IVa, Closed 1/1/2005

 

4. West of Scotland Herring Closed 1/1/2005

 

5. Firth of Clyde Herring Closed 1/1/2005

 

7. North Irish Sea Herring (VIIa) Closed

 

8. Western Channel and

Bristol Channel Herring 200 kg per vessel per trip

 

 

Explanation of 'non sector'

 

 

ICES advice on herring:

 

2005 Herring in Sub-area IV Division VIId and Division IIIa (autumn spawners)

 

2005 Herring in Sub-divisions 22-24 and Division IIIa (spring spawners)

 

 

TL - leon

 

[ 12. September 2005, 04:45 PM: Message edited by: Leon Roskilly ]

[Leon Roskilly]

Ian Burrett:

A commercial fisherman called binatone has put the blame on the lack of Cod in the North Sea on the Danes and Norwegions for taking all the sandeel.

North Sea Sandeel Fishery Closed

 

ICES advice on Fish Stocks

 

 

TL - leon

 

[ 12. September 2005, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: Leon Roskilly ]

[Guest jay_con]

So who did close the fishery??? The Danish governement or the European comission?

 

I dont understand. Binatone says it was the Danish governemnt but that document seems to suggest it was the Eu Commission. Did I miss something?

[Seahog]

One British registered vessel has landed 40,000 tons of Herring in just 7 days fishing from the North Sea.

 

 

In the seven days! …. how many trips did this vessel make to catch 40,000 tons of Herring from the grounds too port and back out again to the grounds etc ?

[blindog]

The size of the pursers nowadays probably one.

[Captain Sensible]

The headline in the Fishing News is "440 tons of herring in 7 hours!

 

This is very frightening.

[blindog]

That dosent surprise me at all.

I have seen them land mackerel at Peterhead and Fraserburgh and the amount that comes of one boat is shocking.