With the appointment of a new Admiral of the Manx Herring Fleet to celebrate the landmark reopening of the Isle of Man herring fishery, FN looks back at its history and traditions By Mike Smylie Herring – Y Skeddan in…
A project by the Seafarers’ Hospital Society (SHS) aims to tackle the risk of heart-related fatalities in fishermen, particularly when onboard and far from medical help. Heart disease is one of the biggest killers globally, and in the UK, 460…
A ban on bottom trawling in current UK MPAs makes no sense – though that doesn’t trouble NGOs more concerned with headlines than facts By Michel Kaiser, The Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University The Private Members’ Bill seeking to ban bottom…
“I don’t really view it as an industry – fishing is more like a community,” Freya Ivy Palmer, a PhD student at the University of Southampton, told Fishing News. Hailing from landlocked Hertfordshire, working in marine research might not have…
Construction of a new quayside at Lerwick processor Pelagia Shetland is not expected to begin until next year – and it has been revealed that licence applications have not yet been submitted to the Scottish government. The Shetland Fish Producers’…
Fisherman Moses Odonkor has died following an accident onboard the prawn trawler Boy Jason S 440, which was working on the Porcupine Bank, early on the morning of Tuesday, 4 February. Originally from Ghana, Mr Odonkor, who was 53, is…
The new Scottish government budget for 2025-2026 has been described as ‘very disappointing’ for Scotland’s rural businesses and communities. Finlay Carson, convenor of the Scottish parliament’s Rural Affairs and Islands (RAI) Committee, noted in a scrutiny debate on the budget…
The NFFO has launched a broadside against a government decision to create more MPAs to compensate for the damaging impact of wind turbines on the seabed in existing MPAs and Special Areas of Conservation. NFFO chief executive Mike Cohen said…
The Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee has launched an inquiry into fisheries and the marine environment. MPs on the committee will examine in depth the challenges facing the fishing sector, including access to labour and competing spatial pressures…
A fleet of seagoing drones – unscrewed survey vessels (USVs), to use the correct term – have completed survey work for a major new cable route that will link the huge Ossian floating wind farm, off North East Scotland, to…
