We haven’t entirely given up on kings. We have Burger King, Muffler King, King Kong, Stephen King, King College, the LA Kings, BB King, the Lion King, King size beds, the list goes on…
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I have high hopes for Hamilton to win his 7th World Championship this year.
Infamous Dutch “super trawler” that has been haunted and hated all over the world.
Originally built as Atlantic Dawn at Sterkoder Yard in Kr.sund, Norway in 2000 as a purely pelagic trawler and going for horse mackerel worldwide:
Presently registered in Poland and now fishing in UK waters
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This freeze trawler was originally named KW 174 “Annelies Ilena”, owners Parlevliet & Van der Plas, was flagged to Poland as GDY 151.
According to director Diederik Parlevliet, that was the only thing that changed. Name, the crew (with the skippers Hugo Groen and Matthias Stam for the two teams), fishing plan and unloading place IJmuiden remain unchanged. Parlevliet mentions as a reason for flagging the possibility of “pouling” the horse mackerel quota in the South Pacific. “Because it is a huge journey back and forth for European ships fishing up the European quota off the coast of Chile, it is easier to do that with one large ship, which will stay there longer,” Parlevliet said.
The trawler had already on a regular basis been fishing for horse mackerel in the South Pacific, and was also deployed in the North Pacific for cloning hake in Canadian Vancouver.
In 2015 captain Gerrit Plug was convicted and fined for illegal fishing in Irish waters.
Gerrit Plug died in 2017 at the age if 60 in a hospital in Glasgow. The previous week he had fallen ill on board the trawler KW174 Annelies Ilena and taken to the hospital.
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The Brexit negotiations are spicing up. Particularly with regards to fishing, there is a problem between Norway, the UK and EU. People say the UK has a pretty bad deal with regards to fishing rights, one of the reason many ex-fishing towns voted Brexit.
A new thread would be more appropriate place for this last post than at the end of a 180+ post thread about John Le Carre.