Parlevliet & Van der Plas

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Parlevliet & Van der Plas BV
legal form BV
founding 1949
Seat Katwijk , NetherlandsNetherlandsNetherlands 
Branch Fishing
Website www.pp-group.nl

Parlevliet & Van der Plas , often P & P for short , is a Dutch fishing company. It is active in fishing and fish marketing worldwide and is one of the largest deep-sea fishing groups in Europe.

Business activity

The Arctic Warrior
Margiris, who lives in Klaipeda

P & P has its own fishing fleet, which (as of May 2020) consists of eight vessels for pelagic fishing ( trawling ) and nineteen vessels for bottom net fishing , including some of the largest in the world, such as the Margiris , the Jan Maria or the Maartje Theadora is currently the largest factory ship sailing under the German flag. The ships sail under different flags. The fishing areas are in the North Sea , the Bay of Biscay , around the British Isles and Ireland , Iceland , off West Africa and in the South Pacific . Up to 250,000 tons of fish are caught every year, stored in several of our own deep-freeze warehouses (including in the port of IJmuiden and Bremerhaven ), processed in our own factories (including in Harderwijk , Sassnitz- Mukran and on the Faroe Islands ) and transported with our own trucks. The company employs around 800 people (2013). In 2002 P & P achieved sales of EUR 200 million. It is a member of the Pelagic Freezer Association lobby group .

history

The company, which is still family-owned today, was founded in 1949 in Katwijk aan Zee by Dirk Parlevliet and the brothers Dirk and Jan van der Plas and developed from a small herring trade into a globally operating fishing empire. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the company expanded to Germany because the domestic sales market had become too small. During this time it also got into deep sea fishing . In 1959 the first factory ship was acquired, the Jan Maria . The range of fish species caught has gradually expanded beyond herring. In 1967 P & P put its first frozen trawler , the Annie Hillina , into service. In 1986 the subsidiary Doggerbank Seefischerei GmbH was founded in Bremerhaven , which operates herring and mackerel fishing , in 1993 the Oderbank Hochseefischerei GmbH in Rostock- Warnemünde , and in 1998 the Mecklenburgische Hochseefischerei GmbH in Sassnitz. A subsidiary of the Mecklenburg Hochseefischerei GmbH responsible for sales is German Seafrozen Fish Handelsgesellschaft mbH (GSF) based in Bremerhaven.

In 2002 the new headquarters of the group was established in the Katwijk suburb of Valkenburg . In February 2009, Ocean Food GmbH, Bremerhaven, the last deep-sea fishing company in German hands was taken over.

Maartje Theadora with the SkySails launch and landing system (blue) on the bow of the ship (March 2010)

In October 2009 Parlevliet & Van der Plas agreed with the towing kite manufacturer SkySails to equip the 141 m long trawler ROS-171 Maartje Theadora with a 160 m² SkySails sail and to carry out further tests and, if necessary, adjustments.

In early 2011, P & P acquired the previously leased Kollafjord Pelagic fish factory in Kollafjørður on the Faroe Islands.

In June 2012 Parlevliet & Van der Plas put the EuroBaltic fish processing center into operation on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen in the Sassnitz district of Mukran . The largest and most modern fish processing plant in Europe at that time cost 80 million euros, of which over 61 million were raised through subsidies from the EU, the federal government and the state. There, over 30,000 tons of herring , cod , flounder and sprat are processed into fish rags, fillets and frozen food every year in a highly automated manner (the processing capacity is up to 50,000 tons, the storage capacity is 20,000 tons). A large proportion is supplied by fishermen from Sassnitz and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, who deliver their catches at agreed fixed prices with their own cutters, with rented fish tankers or by truck to the pier of the processing center. The rest come from Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.

A subsidiary of P & P also based in Sassnitz is Westbank Hochseefischerei GmbH . Other P & P subsidiaries are located in the United Kingdom ( UK Fisheries Ltd , Kingston upon Hull , a 50/50 joint venture with Onward Fishing Co., part of the Icelandic fishing group Samherji ) and in Lithuania ( Atlantic High Sea Fishing Company , Klaipėda ).

Until the end of 2013, Mark Parlevliet, one of the founder's grandchildren, was director of P & P's German branch, Doggerbank Seefischerei. In 2012 he was involved in developing P & P's fishing activities in Namibia . In 2014, P&P bought the largest shrimp processor in Europe, the Dutch Heiploeg , after it filed for bankruptcy. Their Belgian frozen subsidiary Morubel was separated and remained the property of Rabobank, later it went to Bencis Capital Partners. In 2018, P & P took over Deutsche See .

Parlevliet & Van der Plas in Germany

In Germany, P & P is active in the original fishing industry, in fish processing and in the fish trade.

fishing

The fishery is operated by Doggerbank Seefischerei GmbH ( Bremerhaven ) and its subsidiaries Ostbank Hochseefischerei GmbH , Oderbank Hochseefischerei GmbH , Nordbank Hochseefischerei GmbH and Westbank Hochseefischerei GmbH (all based in Sassnitz ) and Mecklenburg Hochseefischerei GmbH (also Sassnitz). The following ships, based in Rostock and sailing under Rostock fishing license plates, are used (as of May 2020):

Ship name Fishing license Shipping company Owner
mark ROS 777 Mecklenburg deep-sea fishing GmbH P&P
Annie Hillina ROS 170 Ostbank Hochseefischerei GmbH P&P
Helen Mary ROS 785 Oderbank Hochseefischerei GmbH P&P
Gerda Maria ROS 786 Nordbank Hochseefischerei GmbH P&P
Maartje Theadora ROS 171 Westbank Hochseefischerei GmbH P&P

Both the Doggerbank Seefischerei GmbH and the Mecklenburg Hochseefischerei GmbH are members of the German High Sea Fisheries Association

Fish processing and trading

P & P operates fish processing in Germany at its locations in Sassnitz-Neu-Mukran ( Euro-Baltic fish processing GmbH ) and Bremerhaven ( German Seafrozen Fisch Handelsgesellschaft mbH ). Euro-Baltic with an annual turnover of around EUR 52 million in 2018 specializes in the processing of herring. German Seafrozen, with an annual turnover of around EUR 73 million in 2018, processes and sells sea-frozen fillets of redfish, cod, mackerel, herring and saithe and operates several deep-freeze storage facilities in Bremerhavenb.

Deutsche See GmbH in Bremerhaven, which with its 22 branches is the largest German fish processor, is also active in fish processing and trading with bulk consumers . Their turnover in 2017 was around EUR 400 million.

criticism

The West Bank Hochseefischerei GmbH was in 2012 in France for illegal fishing with Maartje Theadora sentenced to a fine of 580,000 euros.

The environmental organization Greenpeace accuses Parlevliet & Van der Plas of having repeatedly violated regulations to protect against overfishing with their supertrawlers.

In March 2013, the ZDF magazine Frontal 21 and the Dutch program Zembla reported that the crew of the Jan Maria illegally increased the catch value in 2012 by dumping fish that had already been fished, usable and stored dead overboard to make room for others or larger ones To create fish that promise more financial returns. This practice is called "high-grading" and was made a criminal offense years earlier in order to limit the overexploitation of the scarce resource of fish.

A nautical officer who was on the Jan Maria was able to prove this practice of destroying fish at sea with the help of two documents, the official catch diary for the authorities and a secret catch notebook. Memecke filed a complaint and handed the documents over to the competent authority, the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food . Accordingly, more than 1.6 million kilograms of herring were destroyed in one of the four documented fishing trips alone . After a ten month investigation, the captain received a minor sentence. The Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food announced that “unequivocal violations by the shipping company could not be determined”.

At the end of November 2013, the Irish Coast Guard brought up one of the group's fishing vessels on suspicion of being "high-graded".

The fact that the fishery was certified as working sustainably according to the standards of the sustainability organization Marine Stewardship Council , which did not revoke the seal of approval despite the uncovering of the illegal high-grading, is also criticized by Greenpeace and other organizations.

documentation

  • Until the last catch - The fish business. Documentation, Germany, 2013, NDR - (62 min.); Direction: Jutta Pinzler, Mieke Otte. First broadcast by Arte , January 7, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Judzikowski, Christian Rohde: wasted fish - what good are the catch quotas. ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frontal March 21, 19, 2013, accessed on January 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Fleet list on www.ppgroup.nl, accessed on May 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ see also en: FV Margiris
  4. ↑ http://www.skysails.info:/ First fishing trawler is equipped with SkySails ( Memento from October 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), communication from SkySails GmbH
  5. ↑ Faroe Islands: Parlevliet & van der Plas buys Kollafjord Pelagic. on: fischmagazin.de , January 13, 2011.
  6. ↑ Hope for the Baltic fishermen. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . June 22, 2012.
  7. ↑ Mark Parlevliet died at the age of 33. on: fischmagazin.de , January 6, 2014, accessed on January 14, 2014.
  8. ↑ http://www.fischmagazin.de/newsartikel-seriennummer-3099-Holland+Parlevliet+kauf+Heiploeg+aus+der+Insolvenz.htm
  9. ^ Mourning for Egbert Miebach Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung , February 27, 2018, accessed on March 18, 2018.
  10. ↑ Schiffsflotte , deutscher-fischerei-verband.de, accessed on May 8, 2020
  11. ↑ Balance as of December 31, 2018 , published on bundesanzeiger.de, accessed on May 26, 2020
  12. ↑ Balance as of December 31, 2018 , published on bundesanzeiger.de, accessed on May 26, 2020
  13. ↑ GSF , seafrozen.de, accessed on May 26, 2020
  14. ↑ Group takes over the largest German fish processor , handelsblatt.de, accessed on May 26, 2020
  15. ↑ German Fisheries Society convicted of illegal fishing. December 19, 2012.
  16. ↑ Scandal shipping company Parlevliet & van der Plas. ( Memento of October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 93 kB), greenpeace.de, March 2013.
  17. ↑ Illegal fishing methods - EU wants to limit overexploitation of fish stocks. ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Nordwestradio Journal. December 2, 2013, accessed January 14, 2014.
  18. ↑ Jan Maria: Unequivocal violations not found. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  19. ↑ Illegal fishing methods - EU wants to limit overexploitation of fish stocks. ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Nordwestradio Journal , December 2, 2013, accessed on January 14, 2014.
  20. ↑ Fishing scandal - German super trawler throws away thousands of tons of edible fish. ( Memento of September 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Greenpeace Blog , March 20, 2013, accessed on April 28, 2014.