DOZENS of former trawlermen who lost their livelihoods in the Cod Wars could miss out on compensation because they cannot be traced.
Earlier this year, the Government apologised for errors made in their earlier compensation scheme and agreed to pay £2.5m to former trawlermen.
It followed a bitter 30-year fight for pay-outs, which has been supported by Hull and Hessle MP Alan Johnson.
However, 43 ex-trawlermen and their widows have not been traced and are missing out on a consolatory payment of £1,000.
Mr Johnson said: "We are finally reaching the end of the long campaign for trawlermen's compensation.
"We thought it had ended in 2000 when the Labour Government accepted our demand that trawlermen should receive £1,000 per year of service, provided they lost their job after January 1, 1974, up to a maximum of £20,000.
"However, the original compensation scheme was dogged with anomalies around the so-called '12-week rule', which led to us referring the issue to the Parliamentary Ombudsman who came down on our side. But changes to the qualifying criteria meant many men didn't even get past the first hurdle of the new scheme and calculations based on days at sea meant the length of careers were unfairly shortened.
"We went back to the Ombud- sman who ruled a £1,000 consolatory payment be made to all those men who applied to the reopened 2009 scheme, had finished fishing after January 1, 1974, and had received less that the £20,000 maximum payment allowed under the scheme."
Mr Johnson said most of the 2,500 men, or their families where the person had died, have now been contacted.
However, the Government department responsible requires updated contact details for the 46 claimants listed here.
The men or family members who may lose out David Adams Susan Barrett John George Beaumont Carol Dawn Cooper Frank Thomas Dutton Frederick Alan Edmondson Susan Girbow Carole Grayburn William George Gregory Malcolm Abdul Hamood James Hollingworth Harry Huggins Peter Burnett Jenkins Geoffrey Lang William Lawler Malcolm Earle Longthorp HD Maguire David Mahoney Kenneth McGlone Keith Melling Harold David Milner Julie Minns John James Morgan Peggy Mortimer Thomas William Morton Robert William Netherton Michael Newlove Peter John Nuttall John Patrick Ombler Carol Ann Peck Selma Reynolds Shaun Ryan John Harold Scott Roy Skelton David Skelton Michael Thompson Barbara Threlfall Alan Walker Anthony William Whittles Mary Wild Peter James Ernest Willey Colin Wilson Keith WoodAnyone named on the list, or who recognises a name, should email johnsona@parliament. uk or write to Alan Johnson MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.
