FH214 Lady Hamilton of Helford Cornish haddock gill net fishery, skipper Chris Bean - Pisces-rfr скачать в хорошем качестве

FH214 Lady Hamilton of Helford Cornish haddock gill net fishery, skipper Chris Bean - Pisces-rfr

This video documents the four fishing methods - monk gill nets, sole trammel nets, haddock gill nets and red mullet gill nets - used by Skipper Chris Bean and crew of fishing vessel FH214 Lady Hamilton on 16th October 2012. Of these the most interesting, unusual and currently successful fishery is for haddock, using ca 11.5 cm / 4.5 inch gill nets. Haddock is not typically abundant in Cornish seas but currently there is a massive local year class from 2009 working its way through the food web, as a result of which the stock is at an exceptionally high level judged over the last 25 years. Unfortunately the quota levels and management have been slow to adjust to this situation, resulting in exceptional levels of discarding by the offshore fleet, as discussed further on the Pisces-rfr website account for this video (and the new pinger trial) http://bit.ly/UeL5zC ICES latest advice (June this year) is that the huge 2009 year class in this area has not been repeated. Chris has seen the local haddock gradually shifting eastwards over this summer. The video starts far to the east of Lady Hamilton's usual haunts, off Veryan Bay and Dodman Point, under Venus in the pre-dawn sky, setting the haddock nets for an approximately three hour soak. That done (1.50 into the video) Chris takes her back westwards towards the large mesh monk trammel nets set the previous day. Usually these are left to soak for 2 - 3 days, the exeption being partly to install the dolphin pingers provided by Cornish Wildlife Trust, and partly to let me film the installation (see separate video here and webpage). The catch was limited while videoing (but monkfish, hake, ling, dover sole and others were caught while doing the stills photography, see website page via the link above) so this section, of two sets of monk nets being hauled cleared and re-set, is kept short on the video. Then, 4 minutes into the video, but some 3 hours in real time, we have returned to the haddock nets. I've included a couple of long uninterrupted sequences to give a fair impression of the capture rate, which is pretty active, mostly of haddock along with brown crab. This was a fairly normal day in this unusual fishery, better than that filmed and videoed on the 8th October [to come], but not at the highest levels attained over the season. Then at 25.00 minutes in the video Lady Hamilton starts the return trip back past the monk nets to the smaller mesh 68mm red mullet gill nets in Falmouth Bay. Not as many red mullet were in evidence compared to previous years (see videos and website), the catch being dominated by striped gurnard, lesser spotted dogfish, cuckoo wrasse, mackerel and other species. Like the monk gear fishery, this is better documented in the stills photographs and account available on the Pisces-rfr website than in this video - same link as above.