Above image: Elizabeth Shaun PW 159 and Dunlin FY 516 tie up after a day’s work, while Swan PW 333, Charlotta PW 362 and Lady B Good PW 165 land their catches at Padstow’s south dock in October 1986. Located two…
Long queues formed in a Japanese department store earlier this month, for a taste of Frankie’s fish and chips, reports David Linkie. Customers flocked to the Hankyu shop in Osaka, where Frankie’s manager Carlyn Kearney was cooking, as part of…
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: Arkh Angell DA 33 LOA: 26.64m Built: Campbeltown Shipyard 1990 Type: Twin rig prawn…
Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada will host a major fisheries policy conference in Dungarvan on Saturday, October 24th. The conference will bring together fishermen, fisheries experts and government agencies to hammer out a strategy to support and grow the…
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: Kesteven N 277 LOA: 16.84m Built: Herd & MacKenzie Ltd…
In the second of an occasional series to remember the crucially important role fishermen took on a century ago, John Worrall looks back at the start of the hostilities in the North Sea following the outbreak of World War 1.…
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: Christina FD 100 LOA: 28m Built: Padmos Machinefabriek Stellendam Holland…
1995 in a nutshell Cliff Richard is knighted, Gerald Durrell dies, and Nick Leeson breaks Barings Bank. It’s 1995, Fishing News is printed with a colour front cover, but most of the inside pages are still black and white. In…
Fishing News has teamed up with Bloomsbury Natural History to give five readers the chance to win a copy of Donald S. Murray’s Herring Tales: How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History. The book blends together politics, science, history, religious and commercial…
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: Sowenna S 175 LOA: 17.98m Built: Halfish Southampton 1989 Type:…
