This week in Fishing News you will find: • Comprehensive report: Overall 2018 TACs positive but some big cuts • Festive lights and spirit at Peterhead and Whitby • BOTW: Our Hazel UL 543 • North Uist orange lobsters delivered…
Bass, Celtic Sea and west of Scotland problems. UK and Irish fishermen will have more quota for most species in 2018, following last week’s Fisheries Council, reports Tim Oliver. But there are cuts in some important species on the west…
The latest addition to N Ireland’s fleet, the versatile trawler Unity N 292, recently started fishing from Kilkeel after being purchased from Denmark as Kirstine Vendelbo by the Glenluce Fishing Company, in a sale brokered by Atlantic Shipping A/S, reports…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Pilot Star B 85 LOA: 16.32m Built: J Watt & Sons Banff 1964 Type: Trawler Home port: North Shields We’ll be back next week with our latest…
Scotland and the UK’s biggest FPO has come out strongly against Marine Scotland’s proposals to force Scottish-registered vessels to land 55% of their catches in Scotland, reports Tim Oliver. In its reply to Marine Scotland’s consultation, the Scottish Fishermen’s Organisation…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Quotas up for North Sea shared stocks • New Boats 2017 P2 • BOTW: Pilot Star B 85 • South East England – 2017 review • Feature: Zaranathax refitted at C…
But ‘choke’ worries as saithe transferred to Norway. Fishermen will have increased quotas in 2018 for five of the six North Sea stocks jointly managed by the EU and Norway, reports Tim Oliver. This was the outcome of the annual…
The new 19m twin-rig whitefish trawler Sparkling Star UL 290, built by Parkol Marine Engineering for Kinlochbervie skipper James Corbett, is expected to start fishing towards the end of this month, reports David Linkie. Above: Kinlochbervie skipper James Corbett’s new Sparkling…
Fisheries management in Australia may have relevance for the UK as it begins the process of establishing a new fisheries management regime in its EEZ to replace the CFP, reports Tim Oliver. Australia has a federal system of government to…
It wasn’t quite a case of reinventing the wheel, but Lerwick Port Authority staff were definitely on the right road in sourcing fenders for a new pier – instead of importing an expensive system from the Far East, they devised…
