For three decades, the East Anglian herring fishery’s highest accolade was the award of the Prunier Trophy. John Worrall gets a first-hand account from a spare hand The crew on the Silver Crest at Lowestoft in 1956: Rodney Forster on…
Gaby Bartai look backs on another challenging year for the UK and Irish industry After the Year of Covid and the Year of Brexit, 2022 will go down at the Year of Ukraine. The Russian invasion in February sent fuel,…
Errin Todd continues her series on using seawater tanks to maximise the quality and value of shellfish with a look at long-term storage of lobsters for premium festive sales Whilst most of our customers use the Lobster Pod and Crab…
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…
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.…
Greg Asbed, from the US-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers, visited the UK as part of a delegation to meet fishing industry representatives interested in learning from the successful Fair Food Programme. Under the scheme, retailers provide significant benefits to responsible…
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,…
On 25 December, 1966, 12 of the 25-strong crew of the Hull trawler St Finbarr died in an explosion off Newfoundland. Brian W Lavery tells their story The ‘perfect trawler’: the St Finbarr ahead of her maiden voyage in November…
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…
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…
