The sea trials of the first PB40, a newly designed GRP displacement boat, took place at Padstow in North Cornwall last week, reports Phil Lockley. Aimed at both static-gear fishing and towing, the PB40 has an overall length of 11.95m,…
In a big hangar at Doncaster Sheffield Airport sit two red and white twin-engined aeroplanes in HM Coastguard livery. John Worrall reports In fact, there are four aeroplanes – along with a red and white Boeing 727 marked ‘Oil Spill…
New Peterhead pelagic vessel quickly starts to prove her capabilities on west-of-4° mackerel The new Lunar Bow arrived at Peterhead from Denmark at the same time as mackerel started to cross the 4° line and swim strongly into the southwest…
RNLI fishing safety manager Frankie Horne has urged the fishing community to take advantage of the safety training on offer for crews, and to ensure that their safety equipment is up to date. His call comes after the skipper of…
Joint-funded by the Blue Marine Foundation and Dorset and East Devon FLAG, a new storage facility for live lobsters will soon be in operation at Axmouth harbour in East Devon. Phil Lockley reports Officially opened on 14 January, the lobster…
The sixth article in the series by Hull skipper William Oliver, first published in 1953/4. All photographs courtesy of Alec Gill In 1910, the UK Admiralty established a minesweeping section of the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR). As fishermen were used…
In the first of a three-part series, Phil Lockley looks back at the introduction of the ‘10m rule’ and the unintended boom in boatbuilding that resulted For many fishermen, time off over Christmas and the new year brings back warm…
The fishing industry is unusually well-represented on television over the next few weeks. In addition to Cornwall: This Fishing Life, on Tuesday evenings, Fish Town, which focuses on Peterhead, has returned to BBC One Scotland, with the first episode in…
Solent Engineering was started by Dave and Lucy Middleton in 2010 – and over the past decade, they have seen their business grow from strength to strength, reports John Periam The company is based in a small five-unit production facility…
A wide selection of readers’ photographs were sent to Fishing News in 2019 for inclusion in this occasional feature. The high quality of the images received made selecting the six shortlisted photographs displayed here particularly challenging for the Fishing News…
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