With the wind staying firmly in the north the
Vervine has continued to fish off Ormsaigbeg. At one point while she was hove to we watched
Ceol na Mara, OB5, approach her and wondered whether they were exchanging prawns for scallops - but someone has suggested it was a less amicable meeting, that
Vervine had snagged one of
Ceol na Mara's creel strings.
At times during the last forty-eight hours snow showers have reduced visibility to under a mile and, with the wind working its way towards gale force in offshore waters,
Vervine....
....was soon joined in the calmer waters of the Sound of Mull by at least three other dredgers - this is
Cynosure, CN4.
With such a concentration of fishing boats it was almost inevitable that the law would turn up, which it did in the shape of Scottish Fisheries Protection's
Jura, though she didn't do more than steam past all the trawlers in a stately fashion.
Wisely, the two local creel boats have stayed firmly in Kilchoan Bay, to which, in anticipation of improving weather, they had recently moved from their winter anchorage in
Camas Fearna. This is
Harvester, CN200.
Jon, do you know, has the Sound of Mull and Sunart Marine Protected Area status affected the fishing, especially scallop dredging and are all fishing vessels adhering to regulations?
ReplyDeleteI don't know what the effect has been, certainly more in Loch Sunart than the Sound, where little seems to have changed. Jon
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