Advanced Scalloper packed with technology

August 25, 2018 International News

The 19 metre automated scallopers Ròis Mhàiri OB-45 and Star of Jura OB-278, built by Parkol Marine Engineering in 2005 and 2006 respectively, have given years of good service to the Star Fishing Company, an equal partnership between John McAlister (Oban) Ltd and Seafood Ecosse Ltd in Peterhead. So it was logical for John McAlister to take the order for the new Summer Rose to the same yard. Built by Parkol in Whitby to a new round bilge hull form developed by SC McAllister & Co, Summer Rose is designed to fish up to eleven dredges each side, worked with outer hull tipping doors and a system of catch hoppers and conveyors. >click to read< Summer Rose has an innovative system of handling its fishing gear,>click to read< The electronics package on board Summer Rose, >click to read<15:34

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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