The NFFO has launched a research project to better understand what fishermen want and need from a PFD. During February and March, it will be running face to face workshops in Newlyn and Grimsby, as well as a short online…
Share a day in the life of the director of Grimsby business Fastline Shellfish
A year after the Scottish Fisheries Management and Conservation (FMAC) Inshore Sub-group first met, the Marine Directorate is asking the inshore fishing industry to look at a range of potential effort management measures. These will be developed with them into…
After two years of political limbo, the restoration of the devolved government in Northern Ireland has been widely welcomed. The walkout by the Democratic Unionist Party from the power-sharing agreement, in protest at post- Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland,…
The deadline for nominations for this year’s Fishing News Awards is next Monday – don’t miss your chance to make sure that your local area is well represented among this year’s winners! The only awards event dedicated to recognising achievement,…
“It was an honour to be shortlisted for the first-ever Innovation of the Year category at the 2023 Fishing News Awards. Then to be announced as the winner was beyond exciting,” Seafit manager Carol Elliott told FN. The SHOUT 24/7…
It’s been business as usual for Darren McClements (pictured above, left, receiving his award from Peter Duncan of category sponsor Peterhead Port Authority and 2023 host Stephen Buchanan), skipper of the prawn trawler Golden Ray B 963 and last year’s…
A press release jointly issued by the MCA and the Department for Transport last week took the industry by surprise, opening, as it did, a consultation on whether the ML5 requirements introduced across the entire fishing industry on 1 December…
Two NGOs, Oceana and the Blue Marine Foundation, have launched a widely reported attack on the fuel tax exemption provided to the UK fishing industry, claiming that this is ‘threatening to empty the ocean of fish’. The attack follows a…
Two gear technologists from New Zealand completed a whistle-stop tour of the UK at the end of last month, discussing the potential uses of their novel codend technology – which has now become widespread in the Kiwi fishing industry –…
