Sea fisheries, aquaculture and processing businesses will receive more than £8m of EU and Scottish government funding, including £1.6m for projects in Shetland, to boost growth, protect jobs and develop sustainability. The latest round of the European and Maritime Fisheries…
The RNLI Fishing Safety Team recently held a two-day, cold water safety training event at the RNLI Survival Centre in Poole, Dorset. The event was put together to find out if fishermen would change their safety culture if shown…
After a busy week, the nominations for the Fishing News Awards 2017 have been whittled down into shortlists for each of the 12 categories. With three times the number of nominations of last year, these shortlists represent every corner of the…
Severe north-westerly gales in the middle of last week skewed whitefish landings at Peterhead, where over half of the weekly total of 26,410 boxes were landed before sea conditions rapidly deteriorated, reports David Linkie. Eight boats, Challenge, Farnella, Tranquility, Carina,…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Threat to clean Brexit • Fishing News Awards 2017 shortlist announced • Row over scallop fishery VMS costs • NFFO message to owners: ‘Make use of EMFF funds’ • Feature: MCA National…
Lifeboats have sailed into the history books all along the Fylde coast of Lancashire. Above: The former Fleetwood Ann Letitia Russell on the slipway of the old seafront lifeboat house before being withdrawn from service in 1976. This boat has now…
The beam trawler William of Ladram E 33 broke the record for the earnings for an individual boat at Brixham Trawler Agents (BTA) on Wednesday morning of last week by grossing just over £75,000. Above: William of Ladram broke the port…
An extremely rare slipper lobster was caught off the coast of the Aran Islands recently by the 17m ‘Connacht Ranger’ (G 47) and landed into Ros a Mhil, reports Pauric Gallagher. Turlough Smith (FEAS) of the Marine Institute identified the…
Three pelagic vessels left Shetland within a few hours of each other at the start of last week, to enter new eras, report Ivan Reid and David Linkie. Above: Antarctic II will return to Shetland later this year, looking very different…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Aquilia S 603 LOA: 21.8m Built: Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd Appledore 1988 Type: Seine-netter Home port: Skibbereen Co Cork We’ll be back next week with our latest…
