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Following the earlier post on Porbeagles and the greedy Mr Ellis I decided to see if I could find any information on the annual Porbeagle catch in the UK.
A very kind gentleman (Iain) from DEFRA sent me an extract from their database - from which I have shown a truncated version below. The following disclaimer is as requested by Iain when I asked his permission to show the info.
Bryan, No problem as long as you are clear about what it is - landings into English ports by UK vessels (ie Foreign vessels excluded, landings in Wales, NI & Scotland excluded)
Sum of Liveweight (MT)
Port of Landing Grand Total MT
APPLEDORE 2.2
HELFORD RIVER 0.3
MEVAGISSEY 0.3
NEWLYN 13.2
PADSTOW 2.6
RIVER FAL - FALMOUTH 0.1
WHITBY 0.1
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Grand Total 18.6
The above data is from 01/01/03-08/12/03. Also, I do not know if any of the above fishing was targetted at Porbeagles or whether they were a "bye catch"?
I have not found any information on the total weight of Mr Ellis' catch, however, the heaviest individual caught was reported as being 60 kgs and he caught a total of 128 Porbeagles.
Of course, to get a proper perspective, figures for the rest of the UK and world wide would be useful - not to mention knowing how many are in the sea etc.
Seems like a lot of effort to prove so little.
Oh well.
Following the earlier post on Porbeagles and the greedy Mr Ellis I decided to see if I could find any information on the annual Porbeagle catch in the UK.
A very kind gentleman (Iain) from DEFRA sent me an extract from their database - from which I have shown a truncated version below. The following disclaimer is as requested by Iain when I asked his permission to show the info.
Bryan, No problem as long as you are clear about what it is - landings into English ports by UK vessels (ie Foreign vessels excluded, landings in Wales, NI & Scotland excluded)
Sum of Liveweight (MT)
Port of Landing Grand Total MT
APPLEDORE 2.2
HELFORD RIVER 0.3
MEVAGISSEY 0.3
NEWLYN 13.2
PADSTOW 2.6
RIVER FAL - FALMOUTH 0.1
WHITBY 0.1
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Grand Total 18.6
The above data is from 01/01/03-08/12/03. Also, I do not know if any of the above fishing was targetted at Porbeagles or whether they were a "bye catch"?
I have not found any information on the total weight of Mr Ellis' catch, however, the heaviest individual caught was reported as being 60 kgs and he caught a total of 128 Porbeagles.
Of course, to get a proper perspective, figures for the rest of the UK and world wide would be useful - not to mention knowing how many are in the sea etc.
Seems like a lot of effort to prove so little.

