The annual Gower Chilli Festival has raised £3,000 for Horton and Port Eynon RNLI Lifeboat Station. On the weekend of July 18, the annual festival was held at the South Gower Sports Club, with monies raised donated to Horton and…
The Scottish Pelagic Processors Association has called upon the Scottish and UK Governments to oppose an agreement which would allow Norway duty free exports of mackerel and herring to EU member countries. The agreement between Norway and the EU, has…
Simon Coveney met with a number of fishing representatives in Castletownbere, Co. Cork last week as part of his trip around the coast of Ireland to discuss the introduction of the landing obligation for the demersal fleet, reports Pauric Gallagher.…
A unique, citizen science study uses a Secchi disk and a free mobile phone app called Secchi to conduct a vital, global study of phytoplankton. The Secchi Disk study (http://www.secchidisk.org) engages fishermen in a global, citizen science study of the…
Fisheries Minister, George Eustice, met recently in London with the NFFO’s Executive Committee to discuss the industry’s principal areas of current concern. The issues raised with the Minister reflected both the diversity of the Federation’s membership but also the complexity…
The Anchor Smokehouse in Lowestoft has just won the top award in the Smoked Fish category at the Great British Food – Farm Produce Awards, writes Mick Harrod. The smokehouse is run by John Raven and his daughter Gemma and…
The first sections of Northbay Pelagic’s new state-of-the-art pelagic fish processing factory are now being erected at Peterhead, reports David Linkie. Scheduled for completion in the early autumn in time for the closing few weeks of the North Sea herring…
Fish stocks in the NE Atlantic are making good progress towards meeting MSY targets but big challenges and uncertainties remain, according to marine scientists, reports Tim Oliver. Challenges include the landings obligation for demersal quota species, moves towards multi-species, multi-annual…
Following the report published last week by the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which examined the underuse of Ireland’s six Fishery Harbour Centres, Thomas Pringle, Independent TD for Donegal South West has called on Minister Simon Coveney to refocus investment…
David Linkie reports: Scheduled for completion in the early autumn in time for the closing few weeks of the North Sea herring season, after which production will immediately switch to mackerel, the new building will replace Northbay Pelagic’s principal processing…
