“There’s always something happening,” Luke Netherton, general operations manager at Brixham Trawler Agents (BTA), told Fishing News. Luke first joined BTA in 2006, at the age of just 17. “I was at college at the time as part of a…
“My life is like a big ball of elastic bands. It all combines into one very big ball, but there are just so many different components that go into it,” Simon Macdonald told Fishing News. As a fisheries consultant, those…
“There’s a lot more to a fish box than meets the eye,” Chris Neill, project manager at Craemer UK told Fishing News. “Even though it might be something that you don’t even notice, it’s so important to the whole process…
Back in 1999, while the world was fretting over the ‘Y2K’ bug, a new trade body to promote the seafood industry in Scotland was just getting off the ground – Seafood Scotland. Next year, the organisation, which was set up…
Winklepicker, merchant, marketeer, processor, auctioneer, chef, restauranteur, podcast host – but despite his earliest aspirations, one of the few roles industry pioneer Jim Cowie hasn’t undertaken is actual fishing. “I had no other interest than being a fisherman,” he told…
“It’s been a bit of a whirlwind, really,” Mike Roach told Fishing News at the end of his first six months as deputy chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO). “It’s enough of a challenge to learn…
Share a day in the life of Brixham inshore fisherman, Rob Adams. “If you ask my mum, she’ll tell you that I used to crawl into the sea laughing as a baby,” Rob Adams told Fishing News. “I got into…
Adrian Bartlett is a busy man – an ex-fisherman, seafood champion, vice chair of the industry-let charity Fishing into the Future (FITF) head of marine operations at Ecomotus, lecturer and newly appointed director of the Plymouth Fishing and Seafood Association.…
“Fishing has been a part of my life since day dot,” Cameron Day, a deckhand with the North Atlantic Fishing Company (NAFCO) told Fishing News. “That meant I knew a lot about where a career at sea could take you,…
“It’s a mixed reaction from the children to start off with,” Simon Gray, senior associate at The Food Teachers’ Centre, and the driving force behind the Fish in School Hero programme, told Fishing News. The initiative seeks to give secondary…
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