Continuing on from Monday, here’s more of what’s on offer this weekend at the Skippers Expo Int. Galway 2016 THE ‘DIESEL DOCTOR’ COMES TO GALWAY ‘Diesel bug’ can be effectively eradicated with MarShip’s Marine Fuel Purifier. The…
John Addison looks back on a trend-setting succession of anchor-seiners built at Herd and Mackenzie’s boatyard at Peterhead between 1954 and 1961. During the late 1940s and the early 1950s, a number of traditional Danish anchor-seiners from Grimsby and Esbjerg…
Each week we’ll be bringing you our pick of Boat of the Week taken from Fishing News. Every image has been photographed by editor David Linkie while at sea. Name: Catharina BM 111 LOA: 23.97m Built: Maaskant Shipyards, Stellendam, Holland, 1992…
SKIPPER EXPO INT. GALWAY 2016 – GROUND-BREAKING EVENT Skipper Expo Int. Galway 2016, Ireland’s premier commercial fishing show is breaking new ground this year, with a record number of exhibitors lined-up. This promises to be an all-encompassing and fulfilling event…
A DEFRA minister and MPs agreed last week that it was essential for EU bass management to be based on scientific advice, and on the need to avoid setting commercial fishermen against recreational anglers, reports Tim Oliver. Speaking in a…
The number of new over 15m boats currently on order is at the highest level since the millennium. In the next two years, nearly 20 new bespoke builds are scheduled to join the UK fleet. This number of new boats…
As the two nostalgic photos on this page show, some fifty years ago Aberdeen harbour was home to a large fleet of whitefish vessels supported an equally imposing whitefish processing sector. At this time, Aberdeen was firmly established as the…
The Fishermen’s Mission has teamed up with Fishing News to launch a nationwide search for the perfect photograph for its 2016 Christmas card, offering you the chance to give your photography the recognition it deserves. “The Fishermen’s Mission is delighted…
It’s such a sensible idea you have to wonder why it hasn’t been done before. Old netting, both trawl and static netting, has to be disposed of somewhere and with few other options available, much of it ends up as…
The world’s largest windfarm is to be built in the North Sea 80 miles off the Yorkshire coast, reports Tim Oliver Developer DONG Energy says the Hornsea-1 farm will cover more than 154 square miles and its wind turbines will…
