The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has launched a campaign to keep commercial fishermen safe, with figures showing that 88 people were injured or killed in deck machinery incidents on fishing vessels in UK waters over the past five years. As well as encouraging skippers and vessel owners…
The latest addition to the Brixham fleet, William of Ladram E 33, started fishing from the South Devon port last month. Now owned by Waterdance, the beam trawler is skippered by Jake Grantham, who was putting the finishing touches to…
ELIZABETH ANN WEBSTER – ELIZABETH CAROLINE – MARIE CLAIRE Like so many other fishing boats of their immediate post-war generation, these three boats originated from the Ministry of Defence. A large number of wooden boats were built by the Admiralty,…
The following selection of photographs taken by David Linkie illustrate some of the action characteristic of the Moray Firth squid fishery. Above: Squid swing aboard Ocean Trust. Golden Sceptre and Ocean Reward IV towing as the harvest ripens in the…
History was made at Fraserburgh two weeks ago when the first whitefish discards under the first phase of the demersal landing obligation, which came into force on January 1, were smoothly put ashore separately, reports David Linkie. Above: Skipper Adam Tait…
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: Steadfast N 315 LOA: 18.78m Built: Patterson Engineering Kilkeel Co…
South Devon crabbing skippers Paul Brown and Nick Bright, of Brown and Bright Shellfish Ltd, took delivery of their new 14.95m vivier-crabber La Creole II BM 177 earlier this month, reports David Linkie. La Creole II was built by Parkol…
For decades Lowestoft was one of the leading ports in the UK, with large quantities of fish being sold on the market floor daily before being delivered by local processors by rail to a number of locations. One of the…
Around 130 delegates from a wide cross-section of industries and organisations related to inshore fisheries made their way to Inverness for the third Scottish Inshore Fisheries Conference (SIFC) in mid-October. The timing of the event was especially relevant, being both…
For decades the East Anglian herring drift-net fishery was one of the mainstays of the year for UK fishermen and shore workers. Although the heady days of the renowned ‘Hame fishery’ are now consigned to history, herring still gather on…
