20/12/2016 Channel Islands News

Concerns for the future of fishing. Guernsey agrees terms for European

if our livelihood is not thought about, we will end up with

Also tonight, going for gold in Gotland, athletes get a financial

boost to compete in the Island Games.

Catch limits are set to be introduced for fishing

boats in Guernsey - in a move which it's claimed

will put at least one local fisherman out of business.

It follows a long running dispute between the island

and the UK government, which has resulted in a legal bill

of more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

There's around 150 boats in Guernsey's fishing fleet.

It's a tough and often dangerous profession -

The States has agreed to change the terms of fishing licenses

for all vessels over 10 metres in length, to bring the island

into line with European fisheries management controls.

It means they'll now have to comply with monthly fishing quotas

A move which will put at least one local boat out of business.

in a state court in Guernsey in 2009 was about 100 9000. That is what the

last year, it was 180 tonnes. There is caught than 2009. I know other

places have The island's government

tried to fight the move - but lost a high court battle

which cost more than ?150,000. Now the States say they've tried

to strike the best deal they can for the Guernsey fleet,

given the circumstances. promises were made to Guernsey

should we're not here now we have should we're not here now we have

lost the case, guess we have lost it but there were good positives that

came out in relation to the discussions and but to be honest, we

had to deal with the situation on they have the judgment of a High

Court judge. We considered appealing it. But we decided there was no

merit. We have had to do The larger boats in the fleet

are the first to be affected - And there's concerns further

sanctions could have these limits, and livelihoods it

will I understand that is between four million and fish move in and

out so what we cannot Discussions over

further restrictions for smaller boats

will begin in the New Year. Roisin Gauson, BBC Channel

Islands News, Guernsey. Meanwhile, questions on fishing

quotas was put to Guernsey's Head of Policy and Resources

and Jersey's Chief Minister Deputy Gavin St Pier

and Senator Ian Gorst spoke to the House of Lords on how

the UK's decision to leave the European Union will impact

the Crown Dependencies. The risks and opportunities facing

the Channel Islands existing relationship with the EU

is being assessed by Jersey athletes hoping to go

to Gotland for the Island Games next The States has announced it

will contribute over It's comes after some athletes

dropped out claiming Gotland has a lot to live up too

after Jersey's success The host island topped

the medals table achieving one But with a host of better known

athletes pulling out, Fortunately we've received some

extra funding from events at Fort Regent this year and that

cobbled with a little bit of underspend we've been able to pay

for the deposits on the flights, which came to just over ?32,000,

which we're really pleased to do and is going to make a difference

in regards to the costs for athletes And those are costs that

Jersey's Island Games Association tries to help with by fundraising,

but it's not always enough. What a fantastic Christmas present

for all of Team Jersey. It would help us a great

deal in our fundraising to go away to Gotland,

which everyone knows is an expensive It was a complete surprise to me

yesterday when I got This was Lucy - one of Jersey's

brightest medal prospects - practising for last year's

Island Games at which she won gold. The Great Britain archer's competed

at World, European and Commonwealth level but she wasn't planning

on going to Gotland. The costs were going up and up

and up, and I just thought it's Obviously, the funding

from the States is absolutely Unfortunately, it's too late

for me because I didn't submit my scores because I thought

it was too much money. Obviously, I can't do anything

about it now but hopefully it will help all these athletes

who will hopefully win us golds. So for Lucy, it's back

to training for a season that A senior Jersey police officer

will get an award for saving the life of a walker who had a heart

attack during the 48 Detective Superintendent Stewart

Gull has been awarded a Royal Humane Society certificate

for carrying out life-saving treatment for twenty minutes

until and ambulance arrived. Paramedics say his

action saved his life. I would like to think I only did

what anybody in the early hours of this was very much I was helped by

an off-duty nurse, and it was very much a

Now you may have heard quite a few loud bangs along Jersey's

coastline this year - that's because four times more

Around twenty weapons left over from the island's past

are uncovered every year, but that's shot up to eighty this

year because of the changing landscape and more people out

looking for them as Emma Chambers explains.

Armed with a metal detector and a spade -

Around 80 pieces of ammunition left over from battles and wars have been

found along Jersey's beaches this year alone because of dropping sand

levels and the growing number of enthusiasts like Tony.

When uncovered they are passed onto Jersey's bomb expert to be

Because even though they may look past their best -

they can certainly remind you of what their intention was.

The majority of what we call stream munitions are rusty. They look

harmless. They contain explosives and at the end of the day they are

generally as good as the day they were made in sight, it is just the

external parts that are rusted. They don't deteriorate to become safe, to

deteriorate to become more dangerous.

That's why if you come across one, the message is to leave well alone -

and call the experts in to dispose them safely.

Now let's take a look at the weather forecast with David Braine.

Good evening. Nothing too dramatic in our weather for the next couple

of days. Having said that, the end of the week is particularly windy.

We will see some quite heavy rain at times. Tomorrow, rain or drizzle at

blustery, especially in the morning. blustery, especially in the morning.

But still mild with temperatures in double figures. At the moment we

have air coming in off the Atlantic, and that does not seem to want to

change over the next few days. Not a great deal of change to the weather

pattern. This weather front giving us patchy rain through the day.

Rebels along it, so its progress is erratic. It will eventually clear.

Thursday looks bright and dry. But this new area of low pressure is of

some concern, particularly for the northern half of Britain. For us, we

will see less strong winds but still quite unsettled. Quite wet as the

weather front comes through. Patchy rain overnight petering out towards

morning. Overnight temperatures dipping no lower than six or 7

degrees. Tomorrow is quite a cloudy day, with outbreaks of rain off and

on through the day. Perhaps for a time it will become drier but not

necessarily that much brighter. We will keep a lot of cloud with

outbreaks of rain through the end of the afternoon and into the early

evening. 11 degrees will be the maximum temperature. Some bright

weather for those heading to Spain and Portugal for the next few days.

Bright and calls for a large part of France. Temperatures no more than

two or three degrees. Also here, mainly dry. But not for us. Bright

and fine on Friday. Quite windy with rain developing. That is all from

me. Have a good night. That's your news this

Tuesday evening. Alison will back at

6.30 tomorrow night. country it's worth knowing the

national forecast. Over now to Tomasz.

So, the weather's going to blow a few cobwebs away in the coming days

and maybe a few other things, as well. How stormy is it going to get?

For most of us probably not too terrible. It is, however, going to

be very nasty across parts of Scotland on Friday. The clouds are

racing across the Atlantic and we will see a storm by the time we get

to around about Friday and then