Black bream is increasingly important to both gill-netters and rod and line vessels in the Channel, as well as being a popular angling fish – but although catch rates are reported to be rising, little is known about the state…
Three days after the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) closed to new applications, and just two days after the UK general election was called – only the most cynical FN reader could see this as anything other than a complete…
Coastal states negotiations on pelagic stocks in Oslo last week seemed likely to conclude without any breakthrough on quota shares. Meanwhile, the blue whiting season was drawing to an end, with the Norwegian industry landing 8,000t last week. The talks…
Award-winning author Jenny Jefferies, whose two previous books celebrating the best of small-scale British seafood and fishing businesses were featured in FN, launched her latest title this March. A lavishly produced book, Islands in a Common Sea looks at artisanal…
A deal between Ireland and Scotland to allow Irish fishing vessels to return to Rockall has been vetoed by UK foreign secretary David Cameron. Full details of the proposed deal – which constitutionally falls within the remit of the UK…
Whitehaven fishermen are asking FN readers with good memories for information about the run-off pollution from the Dalquarran coal mine that was recorded in Girvan on the Clyde from 1979 to 1982. It was eventually rectified when the National Coal…
The MMO has confirmed that it has issued five licences to UK vessels to fish for albacore tuna this summer, of the possible nine that it indicated were available. The UK has a quota of 630t for the species –…
“I do enjoy watching a customer go away happy,” Kilkeel-based boatbuilder Gerry Smyth (pictured above, left, with Will Treneer, co-owner of the 14.95m Inter Nos PZ 46 – built by G Smyth Boats) told Fishing News. “I’ve always said that…
The Seafarer’s Charity hosted a stunning performance on 16 May of 12 Silk Handkerchiefs, a narrated and musical commemoration of the Triple Trawler Tragedy that rocked Hull in 1968. Held on the bank of the river Thames, the event followed…
The ongoing strike in Faroe saw a number of Faroese landings into Scrabster last week, following on from the first landing by the former Aalskere, now named Vesturvardi, the week before. The landings come as evidence mounts that despite efforts…
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