As mackerel in the North Atlantic begin their customary early-year practice of swimming strongly into the southwest along the deepwater edge west of Scotland, David Linkie looks back eight years to a trip on the Peterhead midwater trawler Pathway PD…
The Shetland midwater trawler Altaire LK 429 was the first boat to land mackerel at Peterhead last week, on Tuesday, 5 January, reports David Linkie. A few hours after starting to pump fish ashore to the Northbay Pelagic processing factory,…
Twin-rig trawler from Macduff Shipyards A number of innovative features, most of which are relatively minor when viewed singly, have dovetailed into the overall design for maximum benefit on the new 24.5m Fraserburgh twin-rig trawler Jacqueline Anne FR 243, reports…
With decarbonisation now a global necessity, Seafish assistant economics researcher Kelly Beatson explores how the fishing industry can move towards that goal Fully electric boats first saw a boom much earlier than you might think. Well over 100 years ago,…
Back in 2016, among the second tranche of Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designations was the Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds MCZ, which has as its main feature a chalk reef, reputedly Europe’s longest, just off the North Norfolk coast. It is…
Both lifeboats at Clifden RNLI were launched just before 11am on 12 December, following a Coast Guard request to go to the aid of Ophelia WT 399, which was taking on water and in danger of sinking off the Galway…
Gaby Bartai and David Linkie look back on 12 months of challenge and change ‘Change is the only constant’ is a phrase we often use in relation to the fishing industry, but 2020 took that to an entirely new level.…
These photographs have been sent in by Fishing News readers. A selection of readers’ photos will be printed whenever possible, and at the end of the year, £100 will be awarded to the reader whose photo is judged the best…
David Linkie looks back to a whitefish trip on Fraserburgh skipper Sandy West’s twin-rig trawler Virtuous FR 253 in August 2012 Skipper Sandy West had taken aboard a good mix of cod, haddock and whiting, together with a couple of…
She lies in isolated decline in South Georgia – but there are multi-million-pound plans to bring Viola, the world’s oldest viable steam trawler, home. Brian W Lavery reports Viola lies rusting, her mighty heart stilled, 8,000 miles from home in…
