Nearly 1,800 soles have been tagged over the past year and a half in the Eastern English Channel and Southern North Sea. Tagging is performed aboard research vessels during the French and British summer scientific surveys, and aboard professional fishing…
Asteria BRD 250, a design of 19m twin-rig trawler built by Macduff Shipyards in its fabrication hall at Buckie, for the father and son skippers Alasdair and Andrew Montgomery and the Asteria Fishing Company of Portree, Isle of Skye, was…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Brendelen SO 709 LOA: 64.6m Built: Karstensens Shipyard Skagen Denmark 2004 Type: Midwater pair trawler Home port: Killybegs We’ll be back next week with our latest…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Call for clarity over Tory fisheries manifesto • New Skye build ready to be rolled out at Buckie • Boat of the Week: Brendelen SO 709 • Feature: Lulworth Cove •…
‘No commitment to full sovereignty over EEZ’ says FFL. Fishing for Leave (FFL) has challenged the Conservatives to clarify what it says is wording in its fisheries manifesto that suggests the party is only committed to taking back full control…
The Fishing News Awards 2017 was a night of celebration for all those in the commercial fishing industry. Champagne was sipped, a three-course meal devoured and the guests enjoyed a good few laughs from comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner, the…
Just 10 months on from the start of its fundraising, the North Shields Fishermen’s Heritage Project (NSFHP) has now raised the full £75,000 needed for the memorial to fishermen lost at sea from the port of North Shields. Above: Local fishermen…
The National Lobster Hatchery, a marine conservation, research and education charity based in Cornwall, was delighted to join forces with Wild Thymes to run a coastal foraging workshop, combined with a lobster release, at Trevone earlier this month. A group…
Mashfords boat yard at Cremyll, near Plymouth, is making good progress on a new-build steel scalloper for a Cornish fisherman, reports Martin Johns. Above: The nearly completed framework of the new scalloper’s bulbous bow in position on her ballast keel. The…
The new midwater vessel Pathway PD 165 arrived in Peterhead at the end of last week, a few days after being named in Skagen, Denmark, reports David Linkie. Pathway was designed and built by Karstensens Shipyard as a dual-purpose purse-seiner…
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