Fishing Season Update on 23rd November 2016
Update from Factory Manager Erik MacKenzie
Weather seems to be against us now, and it looks unlikely we will have further landings prior to departure of Baltic Trader with our current production on board. This season so far is all good news with 64% of quota already in the bag at an impressive average daily landing of 4535 kg. For comparison, last year this time we had landed only 42 tons on 16 days for an average of 2670 kg per day. The number of days has not been great at only 17 so far in 5 months, but at least we have had productive fishing days in the traditionally good months of September, October and November which we have not really had for the last couple of years.
Production has been good and we have been packing two different presentation types of Sashimi product as well as the usual raw and cooked whole frozen lobster and frozen tails. Quality of the lobster has been great this season so far and we can only hope that when the water starts warming up, as is usual for this time of year, the lobster continue to feed. Break-up is late this year on 21st December so we might still get a few more fishing days before year end and with only 42 tonnes left to catch this season we would hope that January and February might get us very close to completion of quota.