“Sometimes I feel like such an imposter,” Kara Brydson, executive director of Fisheries Innovation and Sustainability (FIS), told Fishing News. “I always start by telling people what I’m not. I’m not a scientist, I’m not from a fishing family, I’m…
Alternative source of short-terms loans to bridge FaSS grant waiting period The Fisheries and Seafood Fund (FaSS) has provided huge benefits for many small-scale fishermen, providing significant grant aid towards a host of vessel and safety improvements. For many boat…
Marc Evans, the Fishermen’s Mission chief executive, met fisheries minister Mark Spencer last week to discuss the changing role that the Mission is taking on to support fishermen, many of whom have never previously sought help. Whilst many of its…
Defra secretary of state Steve Barclay has acknowledged that there are ‘questions from the fishing industry’ in respect of what an SNP MP described as the ‘draconian’ increase in the minimum salary level for migrant fishermen, announced at the start…
Ashore for Christmas? For Hull trawlermen, Yuletide trips were often an obligation – and were fraught with added danger. By Alec Gill Christmas was a time of conflict within Hull’s trawling industry. The clash was between love and money. Trawlermen…
A new vice chairman has been appointed by the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association after Davie Hutchison, skipper of the Charisma LK 362, stood down following 15 years in the role. Richard Williamson, one of the owners and skippers of the…
“There’s always something happening,” Luke Netherton, general operations manager at Brixham Trawler Agents (BTA), told Fishing News. Luke first joined BTA in 2006, at the age of just 17. “I was at college at the time as part of a…
The HPMA protest song The Clearances Again has been named best Original Work of the Year at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards. Written by Skipinnish co-founder Angus MacPhail from the perspective of his friend, inshore creel fisherman Donald…
Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) has confirmed that Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) director of economic and strategic services Dominic Rihan has been appointed as its new CEO. He succeeds Seán O’Donoghue, who is due to retire at the end of this…
Two fishermen have been rescued after their vessel struck a submerged rock and sank off Out Skerries in Shetland. The 11m scalloper, named locally as Swift Wing LK 1, struck the rock around 2nm west of Out Skerries on the…
