“I attended a Towards Zero Suicide conference in 2018, which was about reducing suicides in Cornwall,” Ceri Summers, lead mental health practitioner and founder of Fairwinds Cornwall told Fishing News. “I was really struck by that conference because they were…
“I grew up in Wantage, Oxfordshire,” industry consultant, artist, photographer and blogger Laurence Hartwell told Fishing News. “Then, at the age of seven, I became a ‘ten pound Pom’. Laurence and his family stayed in Australia for only a couple…
“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…
“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…
“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…
