Features

  • The Demise of the Newby Wyke

    The Demise of the Newby Wyke

    16th December 2022

    Photographer Alec Gill recalls his 1975 project documenting the breaking up of a deep-sea trawler as Hull’s distant-water heyday came to its end Nothing lasts forever – no matter how permanent it might seem. Hull once anointed itself ‘the greatest…

  • Developing the UK’s next fishing generation

    Developing the UK’s next fishing generation

    15th December 2022

    The North Atlantic Fishing Company explains the motivation behind its ‘grow your own’ cadet programme Competing for talent in a buoyant jobs market with an offer that includes demanding work at sea and periods away from home is a challenge.…

  • Remembering the Great Gale

    Remembering the Great Gale

    9th December 2022

    Last year marked the 150th anniversary of one of the UK’s worst maritime disasters, when some 70 sailors, fishermen and lifeboatmen were lost off Bridlington. Brian W Lavery reports… The memorial to those lost in the Great Gale of 1871,…

  • Guest blog: The most abhorrent occupation in the world?

    Guest blog: The most abhorrent occupation in the world?

    30th November 2022

    Magnus Johnson, a marine scientist at the University of Hull, published this column on his blog almost a decade ago, as readers with good memories may recall – but it remains just as pertinent today. We reprint it here with…

  • Portreath: A Cove for all seasons?

    Portreath: A Cove for all seasons?

    25th November 2022

    The North Cornish cove of Portreath was once a busy shipping port. Today, its fishing fleet is growing – and its sights are set on year-round operation. Phil Lockley reports Portreath may look idyllic on a calm day – but…

  • Sustainability: Time to level the playing field

    Sustainability: Time to level the playing field

    22nd November 2022

    In a report issued earlier this year, WWF commissioned an analysis of UK seafood consumption, and the huge volumes that are imported without reference to how it is caught or produced. Going beyond sustainability certification, WWF argued for a wholesale…

  • Get set for your stability assessment

    Get set for your stability assessment

    21st November 2022

    In the last of his series of articles, NFFO risk, safety and training lead Charles Blyth offers advice on preparing for your vessel stability assessment, now that the new MCA under-15m safety code is in force All fishing vessels, irrespective…

  • The skipper and the scribe

    The skipper and the scribe

    18th November 2022

    Brian W Lavery tells the story of fishing’s first ‘celebrity’ – skipper Albert ‘Hurricane Hutch’ Hutchinson – and of the adventuring ex-con-turned-writer who made the Grimsby trawlerman a household name more than 80 years ago Television has made ‘reality stars’…

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