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image by Graham Bartram
Source:
http://www.flags.net/UNKG13.htm
Warrant issued 9/8/1900.The ESF committee is believed to be seeking to change
its badge (dated 1894) to reflect more accurately its present area of authority.
Currently worn by MV's PROTECTOR and SURVEYOR.
The flag is illustrated in
Bartram (2004), page 80
Martin Grieve, 3 November 2010
Martin is probably right about the badge, as the Eastern Sea Fisheries Joint
Committee is currently in a period of transition to the Eastern Inshore
Fisheries and Conservation Authority (EIFCA), due to be fully established on 01
April 2011. The new authority already has a badge and that therefore implies
that the old organisation's badge and with it, the red ensign, will probably
become defunct. You can see the badge on the ESFJC web site here:
http://www.esfjc.co.uk/EIFCA%20home.htm at the top right of the page. As you
can see, it wouldn't look all that great on a red ensign.
Bartram (2004) states that only three of the
sea fisheries organizations have defaced red ensigns, so if that is still
accurate, it would be kind of sad for one of the last remaining ones to
disappear.
"MV's PROTECTOR and SURVEYOR" are not current Eastern Sea
Fisheries vessels. Rather, these are styled not MV, but ESF Protector III, Three
Counties and Pisces III. There are a few photographs of the vessels on the ESF's
very early 90s style web site, but it was not possible to locate any showing the
ensign, nor any other flags, for that matter.
Sources:
(1) Eastern
Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority, 1st Transition Meeting, 11 October
2010, Meeting Papers, as consulted Eastern Sea Fisheries Joint Committee web
site, 20 December 2010
(2) Eastern Sea Fisheries Joint Committee web site, as
consulted 20 December 2010
Colin Dobson, 20 December 2010