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Surveillance sightings of UK vessels identified by method are given in Figure 14.34.
The principal gear types8 employed by UK registered vessels within the vicinity of the proposed East Anglia THREE project are as follows:
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Potting; Gillnetting; Beam trawling;
Demersal trawling; Longlining; and Driftnetting. Potting9
Potting is undertaken by local vessels within the vicinity of the offshore cable
corridor. Figure 14.35 shows the distribution of landings values of shellfish pot fisheries around the UK. On a national scale, crab and lobster landings from the vicinity of the offshore cable corridor (33F1 and 33F2) are low. However, these landings are important to local vessels when landed in addition to fish species targeted with other methods. Similarly, it should be noted that whilst whelk landings from the vicinity of the proposed East Anglia THREE project are very low in a national context, they have shown an increase in recent years.
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Netting The distribution of landings values from UK vessels deploying driftnets, gillnets and
trammel nets are shown in Figure 14.36 to Figure 14.38, respectively. In all cases, landings recorded in the vicinity of the proposed East Anglia THREE project are dominated by sole and are of lower value than areas such as the south-east coast and English Channel. Lower values of herring and other species are recorded immediately west of the proposed East Anglia THREE project. In the south-east and English Channel, either sole or bass represent the highest value landings for all three
8 Note that although scallop dredgers have been recorded during surveillance operations these are likely to be vessels steaming to and from ports outside East Anglia to grounds located in the English Channel. At the time of writing there are no known scallop grounds in the vicinity of the proposed East Anglia THREE project.
9 Potting is a static gear comprised of a mainline holding between six to 25 pots spaced at intervals between 10 and 20m (e.g. 60 to 440m total length) depending on vessel size and the area fished. Further information on gear specification and operational practices are provided in the Technical Appendix.
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