Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Amethyst BF 19 LOA: 19.05m Built: Macduff Shipyards Ltd 2008 Type: Twin-rig trawler Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got…
Urgent action is required to stem the loss of the world’s seagrass meadows, to protect their associated fisheries. Writing in the journal Fish & Fisheries, Dr Richard Unsworth of Swansea University (together with colleagues at Cardiff University and Stockholm University)…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Brexit poses ‘severe threat to UK fishing communities’ • Sparkling Star ready for Kinlochbervie • BOTW: Amethyst BF 19 • Petition to take fisheries out of Withdrawal Bill • Feature: Voyager…
Report warns of dangers to shellfish sector. Many UK small boat fishermen and fishing communities stand to be worse off after Brexit according to an economics ‘think tank’. In particular, the many boats that do not have quota, such as…
Hundreds of people turned out on 12 November, 2017 to welcome the new 13m Shannon lifeboat Antony Patrick Jones 13-22 to her station at Bridlington, braving cold winds, heavy rain squalls and some hailstones, to see the new craft make…
A large prawn was caught of the northwest coast recently, reports Pauric Gallagher. The prawn measured 440mm from the tip of the rostrum to the end of the telson, and its carapace length was 80mm. Compared to an average-sized prawn,…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Capella PW 8 LOA: 9.98m Built: J & G Forbes Sandhaven 1996 Type: Single-rig trawler Home port: Plymouth We’ll be back next week with our latest boat…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Big changes to fishing safety regulations in 2018 • New Whalsay seine-netter Tranquility launched • BOTW: Capella PW 8 • Pictorial: Action from the Isle of Man Scallop Fishery • Feature:…
UK federations gear up for new regime. The biggest changes in fishing industry safety regulations in a generation, or possibly ever, are in the pipeline, reports Tim Oliver. The Work in Fishing Convention (ILO 188) aims to create a set…
Whitby and District Fishing Industry Training School (WDFITS) held its 15th Annual General Meeting and Apprentice of the Year Award ceremony earlier this month, reports David Linkie. Guests attending the awards presentation at Whitby Fishing School acknowledged the important role…
