Owners of active, Welsh-registered commercial fishing vessels are urged to take advantage of an opportunity to access grant aid to purchase Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs) with integrated Personal Location Beacons (PLBs) for their crew at a heavily discounted price of £15, saving over £350 per PFD.
Man Overboard Prevention & Recovery Workshop aims to reduce the risk caused by people falling in the water on fishing vessels of all sizes. Fast moving sessions highlight the hard lessons learned from recent fatalities. Viable solutions are simple and effective. All sectors are invited to participate in this unique one day event that is being held at the Grand Harbour, Southampton UK on 17 April 2018.
Fishing into the Future, the South West-based UK charity for sustainable fishing, invites the fishermen of the future to attend its ground-breaking training programme, an Introduction to Sustainable Fishing. This is an all-expenses paid training opportunity for the fishing industry leaders of the future.
George West’s QUIKSLING goes back to his time on the Peterhead pilot boat and an incident when a number of men needed to be rescued quickly from the sea. As a result of that, he developed it as a device for safe recovery of casualties in the water, and this is now in increasingly widespread use with both fishing and oil industry vessels.
‘It’s a small step to take, but it’s one that could mean so much to a fisherman and his family,’ says NFFO safety officer Robert Greenwood, who is also the man behind the Safety Folder, a free online service that provides a platform for monitoring and checking a vessel’s safety.
The owner of a fishing vessel was fined a total of £4000 at Stornoway Sheriff Court for failing to secure the safe operations of his vessel in a prosecution brought by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
The UK’s fishing federations in conjunction with the MCA Fishing Safety team have together developed a Fishing Safety Management (FSM) System that will assist fishermen with the imminent implementation of a generational change to fishing safety legislation, the Work in Fishing Convention (ILO 188) aimed at creating a set of common worldwide standards for health, safety and working conditions.
During their annual plenary meeting, the EU Social Partners in the fisheries sector, Europêche and ETF, met representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) together with the European Commission to lay the foundations for a comprehensive action plan to raise awareness and jointly promote worldwide all relevant international instruments on fisheries to ultimately improve safety and labour conditions.
Three new Codes of Practice came into force in the UK on 23rd October, which are expected to improve safety for everyone in the fishing industry.
A salmon carrier operated by Camanchaca and which had only been in operation for a few weeks sank rapidly in southern Chilean waters.
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