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…
In keeping with the long-standing custom, the traditional first box of fish landed by the new Wick seine-netter Boy Andrew WK 170, in this case a box of monkfish, sold for £700 when auctioned for charity by Dominic Knight of…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Call to fight bass track record rules • Boy Andrew’s first box raises £1,400 for charity • Shetland midwater fleet changes underway • Rare slipper lobster caught off the Arran islands…
Safety risk as new boat orders cancelled. A North Wales fisherman is calling on UK inshore bass fishermen to form a group to fight the new ‘ridiculous and discriminatory’ 2017 bass regulations imposed after the December Council, and possibly mount…
Subsequent to this week’s alert in Fishing News (16 February) on the critical London Convention, Fishing for Leave asks that all fishermen take the small effort to lobby their local MPs to ensure the government denounces the London Convention of…
Following her sinking in Newlyn harbour in mid-December, it seems as if the veteran Newlyn trawler Excellent could be nearing the end of her days unless an enthusiastic individual or group with the skills and funds to renovate her can…
The Scottish fisheries minister is to take steps to require Scottish pelagic vessels to land more of their catch in Scotland rather than abroad. Above: The Shetland midwater trawlers Research… (Photograph courtesy of Sidney Sinclair). He has told the Scots pelagic…
A €28m Capital Investment Package for the development of Ireland’s fishery harbour centres and local authority-owned small harbours networks was announced last week by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, reports Pauric Gallagher. The six fishery harbour…
A combination of fortuitous timing, proactive thinking and full co-operation, enabled the above photograph depicting skipper Stephen West’s last three boats spanning 17 years to be taken at Fraserburgh last week, shortly before the new Daystar sailed on her maiden…
All year round, fishermen at sea and on the foreshore are constantly checking their nets and pots to see what has been caught. This makes them ideally placed to provide early warning of invasive non-native species. Above: Sion Williams of the…
