“Fishing has been a part of my life since day dot,” Cameron Day, a deckhand with the North Atlantic Fishing Company (NAFCO) told Fishing News. “That meant I knew a lot about where a career at sea could take you,…
The latest multi-purpose under-10m trawler built at the Cornish yard of C Toms & Son has been designed for inshore fishing with 4m beam gear. Owned and skippered by Derek Meredith, the vessel is named Four Sons BM 68. Its…
The Isle of Man saw a return to generations of tradition recently, with the first locally caught kippers going on sale across the island, as well as fresh herring. Once home to a huge herring industry, that in the 1970s…
The NGO Blue Marine Foundation has announced it is intending to take legal action against Defra. Its action, it says, aims to force Defra to restrict the issue of UK quotas to limits within ICES advice. In setting catch limits…
The latest addition to Shetland’s whitefish fleet, the 24.9m stern trawler Prolific LK 986, arrived alongside at Lerwick just before midnight on 6 July, after a 3,500-mile, 17-day delivery trip from Croatia. The new vessel joins her identical sistership Copious…
Fishing News has dedicated various articles to the six Fisheries Management Plans that close for public comment on October the 1st. These six FMPs are the first of many that will be developed in the next few years, as required…
An insight into the research revolutionising how we approach whelk fisheries – part of one of the collaborative shellfish Fisheries Industry Science Partnerships By Jack Walker and Fiona Birch Once a popular street food in the bustling alleyways of Victorian…
The whelk Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) is the last of the six FMPs that are currently out to consultation, with a deadline for responses of 1 October. We’ve taken a robust view on the need for the industry to engage…
One of the six ‘frontrunner’ Fisheries Management Plans, the proposals for king scallops are based on many years of industry-led data collection For many fishermen and their representatives, it is going to be a hectic summer and early autumn. This…
18 species, a multitude of different fisheries, with a clear divide between Eastern and Western Channel fisheries, a 50:50 split with EU vessels, and local byelaws from six different IFCAs: this one is complicated By Andy Read, Editor, Fishing News…
