Westminster protest on 19 November against threats to producers’ livelihoods and food security
Catch rates up, prices down – but overall optimism about 2024-2025.
Outsiders to Hull’s fishing community in its trawling heyday were often curious about what was nicknamed the ‘fishermen’s uniform’
Irish fishermen have united in a general election campaign to highlight key issues facing the sector. The campaign urges voters in the Irish general election ‘to support coastal communities and safeguard our greatest national resource – our fish!’. The general…
MPs stressed the essential need to keep fishing separate from trade and energy negotiations in a Westminster Hall debate recently that also discussed visa problems for migrant workers, spatial squeeze, Fisheries Management Plans (FMPs) and quota distribution. Opening the debate…
“There were a couple of days in the summer when we were short-staffed and were going in at 1.30am,” Darren Jenkins, fourth-generation fishmonger and owner of Jenkins & Son, told Fishing News. “That’s insane – but it’s my business, I…
Like Silver Cloud II, the 49ft Strathgarry SY 88 was built by Gerrard Brothers of Arbroath, though in the previous year, 1971. Built for Angus McLeod (‘Stuttery Angus’) and Donald M Murray of the Isle of Lewis, and financed with…
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