“I kind of retired from going to sea full-time in 2016,” Richard Fowler told Fishing News. “I own a 10m vessel, Rebecca BM 34, that other people now skipper for me. For my retirement, I spend all day mending people’s…
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released its report into the accidental discharge of a fire-extinguishing system onboard the beam trawler Resurgam PZ 1001 in Newlyn harbour on 15 November, 2019, which resulted in one fatality. Twenty-year-old apprentice engineer…
Twenty-five years after the last change to its levy – the charge paid to Seafish for the majority of seafish products landed or imported into the UK – the body has published its full response to an informal consultation on…
Galathea, built for the Orkney crab fishery, arrived home to the small port of Pierowall, on the island of Westray, last month. Brothers Paul and Adam Tulloch, opting to fish for shellfish rather than follow their father Tommy, who for…
Scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) are conducting a survey in a bid to hear directly from those in the industry impacted, or worried about being impacted, by offshore wind developments. Although the rush to develop offshore wind has slowed…
Defra fisheries minister Mark Spencer (pictured above speaking to Nigel Sayers, skipper of the Result SM 80) made a visit to the inshore fleet in Brighton shortly before Christmas, ‘to listen and to learn’, as he put it to one…
The Scottish government consultation on the share-out of additional quota received by the UK post-Brexit, which opened in October, closes on 11 January. The consultation sets out a number of possible allocation mechanisms for the quota, which is the Scottish…
UK fishermen will be able to fish for 30,000t of whitefish stock in Norwegian waters in 2024 following agreement on fishing opportunities in the bilateral talks between the UK and Norway that concluded on 15 December. Whitefish vessels will also…
“Sometimes I feel like such an imposter,” Kara Brydson, executive director of Fisheries Innovation and Sustainability (FIS), told Fishing News. “I always start by telling people what I’m not. I’m not a scientist, I’m not from a fishing family, I’m…
Alternative source of short-terms loans to bridge FaSS grant waiting period The Fisheries and Seafood Fund (FaSS) has provided huge benefits for many small-scale fishermen, providing significant grant aid towards a host of vessel and safety improvements. For many boat…
