Ashore for Christmas? For Hull trawlermen, Yuletide trips were often an obligation – and were fraught with added danger. By Alec Gill Christmas was a time of conflict within Hull’s trawling industry. The clash was between love and money. Trawlermen…
Advice for fishermen from specialist marine law firm Bartons By Jo Plummery Collisions, as we know them, may well be consigned to the history books once autonomous navigation becomes the norm for commercial vessels. Until then, collisions will still be…
With the UK Seafood Innovation Fund’s latest research and development projects underway, Fishing News is delving into some of the innovations that the fund has supported. This week: how two different supply chain innovations could help feed the UK’s appetite…
The latest addition to Shetland’s whitefish fleet, the 24.9m stern trawler Prolific LK 986, arrived alongside at Lerwick just before midnight on 6 July, after a 3,500-mile, 17-day delivery trip from Croatia. The new vessel joins her identical sistership Copious…
An insight into the research revolutionising how we approach whelk fisheries – part of one of the collaborative shellfish Fisheries Industry Science Partnerships By Jack Walker and Fiona Birch Once a popular street food in the bustling alleyways of Victorian…
The whelk Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) is the last of the six FMPs that are currently out to consultation, with a deadline for responses of 1 October. We’ve taken a robust view on the need for the industry to engage…
One of the six ‘frontrunner’ Fisheries Management Plans, the proposals for king scallops are based on many years of industry-led data collection For many fishermen and their representatives, it is going to be a hectic summer and early autumn. This…
18 species, a multitude of different fisheries, with a clear divide between Eastern and Western Channel fisheries, a 50:50 split with EU vessels, and local byelaws from six different IFCAs: this one is complicated By Andy Read, Editor, Fishing News…
Perhaps of all the early Fisheries Management Plans (FMPs) out for consultation, the Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel Mixed Flatfish FMP covers the greatest range of stocks, fisheries and ports, encompassing everything from Anglo-Dutch beamers and Channel fly-shooters landing…
No-one will be surprised to find that people might not have finished reading the proposed Crab and Lobster Fisheries Management Plan (FMP). Released over the summer, one of the busiest times in the fishing year, and consisting of what feels…
