Plate 14.5 UK Owned and Registered Demersal Otter Trawler (Source: BMM, 2012)


181. Consultation and analyses of fisheries statistics indicates that a significant amount of fishing activity in inshore waters off the Suffolk and Essex coasts is by the under-15m fleet. This is particularly true of the inshore cable analysis area (33F1) where over 75% of landings values originate from this fleet, a significant proportion of which are from the under-10m category. These vessels are based at the ports of Lowestoft, Southwold, Aldeburgh, Orford, Felixstowe Ferry, Harwich and West Mersea.


182. Vessels operating from these ports have a versatile approach which utilises multiple gear types, helping to maintain commercial viability. Very few vessels apply a single method for all their fishing though the time spent working a particular gear type will vary on individual vessel basis. The principal methods used in the area are longlining, static netting, driftnetting, potting and demersal trawling (single, twin rig and shrimp trawls). Skippers will also work more than one gear type in any given day. For example, fleets of pots may be shot or hauled between working nets or longlines. A small number of vessels from ports such as Harwich also undertake midwater pair trawling for sprats and herring. With the exception of four vessels from Lowestoft and a single West Mersea based trawler, all these vessels are in the under-10m category. In addition, there are currently two visiting whelk potting vessels from South West ports working out of Lowestoft. Based on Automatic


Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014


East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm


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