Belgian beam trawlers and demersal otter trawlers;
UK beam trawlers, otter trawlers, long-liners, fixed and drift netters and potters;
French otter trawlers (demersal and pelagic); German beam trawlers and demersal otter trawlers; Danish Gillnetters;and
Norwegian purse seiners, midwater otter trawls and demersal otter trawls.
172. The highest levels of activity and landings values within the East Anglia THREE windfarm site and in the offshore cable analysis area are, by a substantial margin, from the Dutch beam trawl fleet. The vessels fishing these areas are predominantly the larger vessels from the Dutch fleet (38 to 42m), a high proportion of which are from Texel/Den Helder which operate pulse wing trawls with sole the principal target species.
173. As shown by Figure 14.12 to Figure 14.21, Dutch fishing activity extends over significant areas of the central and southern North Sea as well as into the Channel. Levels of activity within the East Anglia THREE windfarm site and the offshore cable analysis area are of low to moderate intensity at the scale of the North Sea. The highest intensity grounds are those targeted by the beam trawl fleet and located in the north west of the East Anglia Zone and to the immediate south. Due to an absence of Dutch historic rights within the UK 6 to 12nm limit, all activity occurs outside this boundary.
174. The second highest level of activity occurring in the offshore areas of the proposed East Anglia THREE project is by Belgian vessels. This is predominantly beam trawling, although otter trawling also occurs albeit to a lesser extent. Figure 14.30 and Figure 14.31 show that activity by the Belgian fleet occurs over wider areas than the Dutch including the central and southern North Sea, the Channel, Western Approaches and in the Celtic and Irish Seas. With reference to the proposed East Anglia THREE project, and based on the data obtained, the majority of Belgian activity is by the larger class of vessels (over 300bhp) and occurs predominantly within the offshore cable analysis area outside the 12nm limit as these vessels have access to historic rights only if using demersal otter trawls (Figure 14.30). Activity by the Eurocutter fleet (Figure 14.31) is higher inside the 6-12nm limit and occurs over a smaller central area of the offshore cable corridor. Activity from both Belgian fleets within the East Anglia THREE windfarm site is very low.
Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014
East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm
Chapter 14 Commercial Fisheries Page 74
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