One hundred and forty years ago this month, the Scottish port of Eyemouth suffered Britain’s worst ever fishing disaster, when 189 men and boys perished on what locals still call Black Friday. Brian W Lavery recalls the tragedy Eyemouth’s fishermen…
In the first of two articles on the subject, fisheries lawyer Andrew Oliver, a partner in the law firm Andrew Jackson, explains the changed role that IFCAs play in managing England’s inshore fisheries, and why they are in many ways…
The absence of a clear policy on Pacific ‘rock’ oysters is threatening the future of UK shellfish aquaculture businesses, writes the Shellfish Association of Great Britain The UK’s Pacific oyster industry is under threat following recommendations from Natural England, the…
Working with other fishers across different fleet segments is challenging – but it offers a better way forward than attempting alliances with environmentalists, argues Newlyn fisherman and NFFO president Andrew Pascoe It is not that difficult to exploit divisions in…
Identical 26.50m state-of-the-art pair-seiners from Macduff Shipyards are landmark reinvestment by longstanding pair-trawl skippers Stewart Buchan and David Cardno. The new Faithful FR 129 ran sea trials in the Moray Firth at the end of May… The delivery of the…
Seafish fleet researcher Oscar Wilkie reports from Northern Ireland It was a pleasure to spend two weeks conducting the annual fleet survey in Northern Ireland. I had some fascinating discussions with skippers and vessel owners about the future of the…
Rachael Harper talks to artist Henrietta Graham about her time on the Karen of Ladram, which inspired her to paint a public installation for Newlyn Harbour “The thing is, my studio is bang splat in the middle of Newlyn fishmarket!”…
Photographer Laszlo Torday documented the North East of England, including the North Shields fishing industry, for decades. Yet little is known of him – or about his pictures. Brian W Lavery reports… Day after day, year after year, he went…
Shetland Fishermen’s Association executive officer Simon Collins puts the on-the-grounds case for realistic cod quotas next year If fisheries ministers and their officials are sick and tired about the fishing industry going on and on about North Sea cod quotas,…
With a new funding round of the government’s Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) now open for applications, Rachael Harper talks to Imogen Smith-Devey, who has been working as a fishing animateur for 18 months, about how the project can help…
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