The MMO has confirmed that it has issued five licences to UK vessels to fish for albacore tuna this summer, of the possible nine that it indicated were available. The UK has a quota of 630t for the species –…
“I do enjoy watching a customer go away happy,” Kilkeel-based boatbuilder Gerry Smyth (pictured above, left, with Will Treneer, co-owner of the 14.95m Inter Nos PZ 46 – built by G Smyth Boats) told Fishing News. “I’ve always said that…
The Seafarer’s Charity hosted a stunning performance on 16 May of 12 Silk Handkerchiefs, a narrated and musical commemoration of the Triple Trawler Tragedy that rocked Hull in 1968. Held on the bank of the river Thames, the event followed…
The ongoing strike in Faroe saw a number of Faroese landings into Scrabster last week, following on from the first landing by the former Aalskere, now named Vesturvardi, the week before. The landings come as evidence mounts that despite efforts…
A pilot scheme to enable UK vessel owners to be verified to provide assurance that their foreign crews are not being exploited or subjected to ill-treatment is expected to start in North East Scotland this summer. The scheme, to be…
SECTIONS 155 & 156 MARINE AND COASTAL ACCESS ACT 2009 Notice is hereby given pursuant to the above legislation, Northumberland Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (NIFCA) intends to apply to the Minister for the Department of Environment Food & Rural…
Speaking anonymously to online seafood news site Undercurrent News, a Tesco insider appears to have confirmed that the company is following its removal of Russian fish from its remaining fresh counters and fresh fish products with a complete ban on…
“My family is a seafood family. It’s something that I’ve always been around,” Sarah Holmyard, head of sales and marketing at Offshore Shellfish, told Fishing News. “It’s not something that I wanted to get involved in as a child –…
Fishing featured on the agenda at the UK government’s second Farm to Fork summit in 10 Downing St on 14 May, held almost exactly a year after the first event. Mike Cohen and Elspeth Macdonald (pictured above), chief executives of…
Arrangements have been put in hand for vessels that would normally sell their fish on the Plymouth auction to sell their catches at Brixham and Newlyn. The Plymouth auction closed on Friday, 17 May after Plymouth Trawler Agents ceased trading.…
