where have all the fish gone

[gfkelly1969]

if you are wondering where all the fish have gone too have a look at http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

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in the photo you can see

ANNELIES ILENA length x Breadth: 144 m X 24 m
WILLEM VAN DER ZWAN Length x Breadth: 142 m X 18 m
HELEN MARY Length x Breadth: 116 m X 16 m
MAARTJE THEODORA Length x Breadth: 140.8m x 18.6m

if you dont know about the ANNELIES ILENA look here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_ship

while looking up the ships details i spotted this site
http://fishsubsidy.org/
have a good look through this site and see how much the boats are getting in subsidies and have a look at the Infringements as well

[corbyeire]

there was a lot of talk that the subsidies of these mega trawlers were going to be reformed but when push came to shove as usual the big boys got their way in europe

http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/fish-environment.k8a

[hugo]

Wow. Wonder whats out there in big numbers enough to draw a heavyweight fleet like that - mebbe the Iceland mackeral shoals on their way south again?

[PaddyB]

mack or herring?

[Caz-Galway]

Almost certainly blue whiting. Most of these boats are Dutch and they have the biggest quota for this species even though they are to be found off our coast. Ireland only has a very small percentage of this quota for this species.

Caz

[sailnfish]

Cheers for posting this. Some serious ships operating there! any one know what kind off tonnage they are landing? Is it definitely blue writing?

[gfkelly1969]

8 nov 2013

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[gfkelly1969]

Cheers for posting this. Some serious ships operating there! any one know what kind off tonnage they are landing? Is it definitely blue writing?

The Annelies Ilena is able to process 350 tonnes of fish a day and can store 7,000 tons of graded and frozen catch
blue whiting max. published weight: 830.00 g so it takes 1176 blue whiting to make 1 tonne
1176x7000=8232000 blue whiting
The Annelies Ilena can process over 8.2 million fish in 20 days,if she fished 300 days per year then she would catch 123480000 fish
one boat could catch 123 million fish per year

The Annelies Ilena is on this site as well http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/01/ ... rn-pacific

[agardiner22]

just prowling the rising fish at the continental shelf. No wonder fook all mack was caught shore angling this year

[gfkelly1969]

ANNELIES ILENA heading for killybegs at the moment

[hugo]

Almost certainly blue whiting. Most of these boats are Dutch and they have the biggest quota for this species even though they are to be found off our coast. Ireland only has a very small percentage of this quota for this species.

Is that because blue whiting is a very deep water species and Ireland doesnt have enough boats set up for this, or what?

[gfkelly1969]

CORNELIS VROLIJK FZN Length x Breadth: 113 m X 17 m heading for killybegs

[Caz-Galway]

Is that because blue whiting is a very deep water species and Ireland doesnt have enough boats set up for this, or what?

Nothing to do with the Irish boats. Ireland has one of the best Pelagic fleets in Europe. All to do with the EU and quotas. Historical trade offs and Species allocation across the European fleets. We get Mackerel and the Dutch get Blue Whiting.

Caz

[gfkelly1969]

11 nov 2013

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[johnwest]

Wow. Wonder whats out there in big numbers enough to draw a heavyweight fleet like that - mebbe the Iceland mackeral shoals on their way south again?

I was in Killybegs a few weeks ago and saw some Irish trawlers (big ones) unloading boarfish, palm of your hand sized fish. The quay was littered with them and the trawlers were very heavily loaded (over loaded?)with them.

[hugo]

Amazing. They're not scraping the bottom of the barrel any more - they've gone right through it into the mud underneath.....

[agardiner22]

Amazing. They're not scraping the bottom of the barrel any more - they've gone right through it into the mud underneath.....

Too true and fook all will be done, the approach to bi-catch is all wrong. Soon we will be lucky if we have goby's in rockpools

[Caz-Galway]

Boar fish are a targeted species and not a by-catch. Used for fishmeal and also the Chinese buy them for Human consumption. They are a controlled stock much the same as Mackerel.

Caz

[lucky13]

just prowling the rising fish at the continental shelf. No wonder fook all mack was caught shore angling this year

i think thats the "porcupine bank" giving way to "rockall trough"...i think...

[cortaz]

Puts the post on the effects on stock of angling competitions in prospetive.........the EU have some cheek to say we owe them money.