July 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



95 



United Kingdom (Contd.): 



In 1965, landings in England and Wales ac- 

 counted for about 58 percent of the total, and 

 Scotland accounted for the remainder. Cod 

 dominated English landings while haddock was 

 the leading item in Scottish landings. Increased 

 deliveries of those species accounted for much 

 of the gain in British landings during 1965. 

 Scottish landings of sprat were also up sharply. 



Stanchion which supports gangplanks is taken off a British deep- 

 sea trawler, Grimbsy, England. Vessel has finished unloading 

 a trip of fish. 



Vianova . 



Landings of Nine British Distant-Water Trawlers at 

 Grimsby, England, During the Week Beginning March 28, 1966 



Vessel 



Quantity 

 Pounds 



Royal Lines 



Northern Jewel 



Lifeguard 



Lord WiUouqhby , 

 Northern Eagle 



Northern Chief 



Coldstreamer 



Northern Gift 



Pounds 



341,460 



329, 420 



371,280 



314,580 



288,680 



278, 600 



308,000 



392,000 



323,540 



Gross Value 



-fc Sterling 



US$ 



12,082 



33,830 



11,642 



32,598 



11,172 



31,281 



11,046 



30,929 



10,861 



30,411 



11,937 



33,423 



12, 844 



35,963 



14,718 



41,210 



13,771 



38, 559 



($28,000) and all but 2 of the vessels landed 

 over 300,000 pounds. 



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PURSE-SEINE EXPERIMENTS MAY 

 INCREASE HERRING CATCH AND 



FISH MEAL PRODUCTION: 



British plans to test herring purse-seine 

 fishing were discussed in the Fishing News , 

 April 15, 1966. Separate tests were to be 

 carried out with the middle-water trawler 

 Princess Anne based at Lowestoft and the her- 

 ring vessel Gienu£i£ HI based at Peterhead. 

 The Glenugie III was to be equipped with a 

 nylon purse-seine net 1,440 feet long and 420 

 feet deep costing about i.10,000 (US$28,000). 



Table 2 - Landings of Principal Species in Scotland, 1964-1965 | 



Species 



1965 



1964 1 



Quantity 



Value 



Quantity 



Value 1 



Cod 



1,000 

 Pounds 

 104,012 

 234, 878 



88,902 

 182, 287 

 103,992 

 109,054 



i 

 1,000 



3,913 

 5,451 

 1,469 

 2,279 

 369 

 4,027 



US$ 



1,000 



10,956 



15,263 



4,113 



6,381 



1,033 



11,276 



1,000 

 Pounds 

 102,046 

 194,743 



69,759 

 176, 809 



47, 127 

 108,003 



4 

 1,000 



3,841 

 4,833 

 1,407 

 1,958 

 128 

 3,795 



US$ 



1^000 



10,755 



13,532 



3,940 



5,482 



358 



10,627 



rladdock 









Other fish 



Total (excluding shellfish) 



823,125 



17,508 



49,022 



698,487 



15,962 



44,694 



Source: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scot 



and. 1 



The 1965 United Kingdom landings of fish 

 and shellfish combined yielded a record ex- 

 vessel value of fc60.8 million (US$170 million) 

 as compared with fc56.9 million ($159 million) 

 in 1964. 



DISTANT -WATER TRAWLER 

 LANDINGS AND EARNINGS DATA: 



Nine distant -water trawlers of one British 

 firm landed at Grimsby during the pre-Easter 

 week of March 28, 1966, and delivered over 

 2.9 million pounds of fish. Average landings 

 and gross earnings for each of the vessels 

 were 327,506 pounds and tl2,230 (US$34,245). 

 The best trip was 392,000 pounds with an ex- 

 vessel value of ■L14,718 ($41,210). Each of 

 the vessels had gross earnings of over ^10,000 



Success in these experiments and develop- 

 ment of a modern purse-seine fishery could 

 lead to a sharp increase in herring landings, 

 which in turn could expand British production 

 of industrial fishery products and thus reduce 

 Britain's heavy dependence on imported fish 

 meal and oil. 



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NEW METHOD OF TRANSFERRING 



FISH AT SEA TESTED: 



In the spring of 1966, the British White Fish 

 Authority's Industrial Development Unit carried 

 out tests of a new method of transferring fish 

 at sea from one vessel to another. Two 130- 

 foot trawlers, the Ardenlea and the Summer - 

 vale , took part in the tests which were held in 

 the Pentland Firth with a wind of up to force 



