A Day In The Life Of: Fastline Shellfish director Darren Kenyon
15th February 2024
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New Scottish approach to inshore management
15th February 2024
A year after the Scottish Fisheries Management and Conservation (FMAC) Inshore Sub-group first met, the Marine Directorate is asking the inshore fishing industry to look at a range of potential effort management measures. These will be developed with them into…
Northern Ireland industry seeks early meeting with new minister
14th February 2024
After two years of political limbo, the restoration of the devolved government in Northern Ireland has been widely welcomed. The walkout by the Democratic Unionist Party from the power-sharing agreement, in protest at post- Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland,…
Fishing News Awards 2024: Last chance to make your nominations!
6th February 2024
The deadline for nominations for this year’s Fishing News Awards is next Monday – don’t miss your chance to make sure that your local area is well represented among this year’s winners! The only awards event dedicated to recognising achievement,…
Fishing News Awards 2023 Winner Catch-up: Shout 24/7
31st January 2024
“It was an honour to be shortlisted for the first-ever Innovation of the Year category at the 2023 Fishing News Awards. Then to be announced as the winner was beyond exciting,” Seafit manager Carol Elliott told FN. The SHOUT 24/7…
Fishing News Awards 2023 Winner Catch-up: Darren McClements
30th January 2024
It’s been business as usual for Darren McClements (pictured above, left, receiving his award from Peter Duncan of category sponsor Peterhead Port Authority and 2023 host Stephen Buchanan), skipper of the prawn trawler Golden Ray B 963 and last year’s…
MCA opens ML5 consultation – seven weeks after certificate became mandatory!
27th January 2024
A press release jointly issued by the MCA and the Department for Transport last week took the industry by surprise, opening, as it did, a consultation on whether the ML5 requirements introduced across the entire fishing industry on 1 December…
Media storm over fuel ‘subsidy’
25th January 2024
Two NGOs, Oceana and the Blue Marine Foundation, have launched a widely reported attack on the fuel tax exemption provided to the UK fishing industry, claiming that this is ‘threatening to empty the ocean of fish’. The attack follows a…
Kiwi innovations set for UK trials
24th January 2024
Two gear technologists from New Zealand completed a whistle-stop tour of the UK at the end of last month, discussing the potential uses of their novel codend technology – which has now become widespread in the Kiwi fishing industry –…
Why are bluefin back in UK seas?
22nd January 2024
Plymouth-based scientist Richard Kirby, a plankton expert, looks at the links between bluefin tuna and water temperature, and suggests that climate change may disrupt the historic cycles that have driven tuna migration in the past Atlantic bluefin tuna have returned…
