§ Lord Stoddart of Swindonasked Her Majesty's Government:
What is the formula for a "kilowatt day" as applied to fishing vessels, and how does this unit compare to a "standard vessel day".
Lord Lucas:Fishing effort expressed in "kilowatt days" is the product of the power of the vessel in kilowatts and its time at sea expressed in days. Thus a 500kW vessel at sea for two days would represent 1,000 kilowatt days of fishing effort.
8WAA "standard vessel" is taken to be equivalent to 700 brake horsepower (bhp) or 515kW. Thus a standard vessel at sea for two days would represent 1,030 kilowatt days of fishing effort.
Conversion factors have been used in the EU to convert to standard vessel equivalents a range of bhps and these are given in the table below:
Conversion factors for vessels not of 700 BHP BHP range Equivalence to standard vessel Under 300 0.57 300 but less than 400 0.76 400 but less than 500 0.85 500 but less than 600 0.90 600 but less than 700 0.96 700 but less than 800 1.00 800 but less than 1,000 1.07 1,000 but less than 1,200 1.11 1,200 and above 2.25