This week in Fishing News you will find: • Westminster accused of Brexit fisheries ‘power grab’ • Sparkling Star launched at Whitby • BOTW: Golden Sceptre PD 50 • Pictorial: Lerwick Harbour hosts large fleet of local and visiting mackerel…
Scots minister blasts Withdrawal Bill. Scottish fisheries minister Fergus Ewing has slammed the UK government’s Brexit Withdrawal Bill that will roll over the landing obligation into UK law as ‘one of the most bizarre decisions on fisheries management I have…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Ygrainne SS 284 LOA: 11.95m Built: Cygnus Marine Penryn 1981 Type: Netter Home port: Newlyn We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got some…
This week in Fishing News you will find: •No abuse of non-EEA crew in N Ireland • SFF calls for a fast track bridge to Brexit and a Scottish Seafood Council • BOTW: Ygrainne SS 284 • Feature: Asteria BRD…
ANIFPO commissions report on crewing issues. A new report on the employment of non-EEA crews on Northern Ireland vessels has found that the crews are treated well and that there is little or no evidence of slavery and trafficking in…
Shetland owners order new 75m midwater trawler Zephyr Whalsay skipper Allister Irvine and partners of the Zephyr Fishing Company Ltd have signed a contract with Larsnes Mekaniske Verksted AS to build a new 75.4m midwater trawler for delivery in the…
Salmon netsmen on the Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire coast again face a period of great uncertainty as regards to their future. With an interim Net Limitation Order coming up at the end of this year, lifelong netsmen are extremely concerned…
One million pounds-worth of fish and shellfish were landed from the waters around Shetland every day in 2016 on average, but only a small proportion of it by Shetland fishing boats. Above: Whitefish vessels in Shetland netted a record catch value…
An open letter to the Angling Trust and Angling Trades Association Messrs Mitchell and Werner of the Angling Trust/Trades Association says that it is untrue that the RSA lobby is trying to shut down commercial bass fishing. (Fishing News, 5…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Village Belle TT 74 LOA: 18.10m Built: Alexander Noble & Sons Ltd Girvan 1970 Type: Prawn trawler Home port: Carradale We’ll be back next week with our…
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