The latest new build from Macduff Shipyards, Excel BF 110, ran successful sea trials recently. Along with Zenith BF 106, which was completed concurrently at Macduff Shipyard’s Buckie yard and is expected to run sea trials by the end of…
Following the reports of the Irish, Danish and Dutch decommissioning schemes, further details have emerged of the French scheme, which has already seen a number of fishing vessels dismantled ashore. The announcement that the 45m trawler Jean Claude Coulon II,…
With fisheries-cetacean interactions in the news again, the onus is on fishermen to safeguard their future by taking the lead in devising mitigations A recent spate of entanglements on Scotland’s east coast has put the focus on cetacean-fisheries interactions once…
Two hundred and fifty guests attended the gala presentation evening for the Fishing News Awards 2023 to celebrate the achievements and innovations of people, companies and organisations across the UK and Irish fishing industry We are delighted to present the…
As part of this year’s Fishing News Awards celebrations, we are giving away a bottle of gin! This year’s Fishing News Awards saw two amazing prizes given away on the evening of 11 May 2023 – a night’s stay at…
A new art exhibition exploring Grimsby’s relationship with Iceland through ‘conflict, co-operation and fish and chips’ has opened at the Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre. The ‘Friends, Foes and Good Companions’ exhibition, by award-winning artist Olivier Kugler and writer Andrew Humphreys,…
Shetland’s restored Fifie Swan is set to retrace her past by visiting five ports significant to the historic and present-day herring industries as part of a 10-night trip from 8 to 18 June. As part of the tour, ‘On the…
This week’s Political Podium is by George Eustice MP, the Conservative MP for Camborne and Redruth, who served as fisheries minster from 2015 to 2019… I always remember a representative of the industry once telling a Select Committee in parliament…
“Brixham fish products are the best in the world, to be fair – it’s as simple as that,” said Neil Walker, of Brixham-based fish merchant Walker and Son. He was making the statement not as a boast, but more as…
A major new science paper published in the journal Nature last week may finally put an end to the endlessly repeated assertions that trawling ‘emits more CO2 than the world’s aviation industry’. The claim was originally made in a paper…
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