Continuing intensive efforts to locate two missing Tarbert fishermen. Above: Candles were lit on Tarbert pier to guide the two missing fishermen home. An intensive search operation to locate skipper Duncan MacDougall and crewman Przemek Krawczyk, missing since the Tarbert trawler Nancy…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Brussels take hardest possible line on Brexit • Deadline approaching for Fishing News Awards • BOTW: Golden Fleece N 185 • North Yorkshire chippie wins The National Fish & Chips Awards…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Golden Fleece N 185 LOA: 13.9m Built: J Noble (Fraserburgh) Ltd 1975 Type: Scalloper/trawler Home port: Kilkeel We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus.…
Status quo in transition period and little change afterwards. The gloves came off in the Brexit fisheries negotiations as the Commission set out its stall to the 27 EU member states last week, reports Tim Oliver. The Commission is taking…
Battle over Manx scallop management. A major rift has opened up between the Scottish and Isle of Man administrations over management of the Manx king scallop fishery. Scottish fisheries minister Fergus Ewing has said the Scottish government could invoke the…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Innsfallen FY 46 LOA: 9.96m Built: C Toms & Son Ltd Polruan 1986 Type: Single-rig trawler Home port: Newlyn We’ll be back next week with our latest…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Decisive EU vote to ban pulse beaming • Hull ‘triple trawler tradegy’ remembered • BOTW: Innsfallen FY 46 • Deepening dispute over Isle of Man scallop licence variation • On the…
But long battle ahead before final decision. MEPs voted by a large majority last week for a ban on electric pulse fishing, reports Tim Oliver. In a full plenary session of the European Parliament, an amendment MEPs had added to…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Ocean Spray SH 94 LOA: 14.10m Built: C Toms & Son Ltd Polruan 1990 Type: Potter Home port: Bridlington/Scarborough We’ll be back next week with our latest…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • ‘Ban electric fishing’ group tells Brussels • First mackerel of the year at Lerwick • BOTW: Ocean Spray SH 94 • Pictorial: Potting on Seahouses shellfish catamaran Standsure • Nostalgia: Hull…
