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…
“I would have loved to have gone fishing, to be honest,” Alan Ure, risk management surveyor at Sunderland Marine, told Fishing News. “But I used to get horrible seasickness. It was one of my early goals to have been an…
“Meeting some of the fishermen – there are some real characters out there!” Carol Elliott, SeaFit manager told Fishing News. “Recently we held a health event with Dentaid, The Dental Charity, and one fisherman came out holding a tooth that…
Share a day in the life of the Norfolk fisherman and vessel owner who was named 2022 Fishing News Awards Under-10m Fisherman of the Year
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