New study has found that expanding Pacific oyster farming has minimal impacts on ecosystems – and some evidence of greater biodiversity around farms By Tim Oliver New research has found that farming Pacific oysters has few negative impacts on the…
The Crown Estate has confirmed completion of the next step – a formal opening of the tendering process – in the development of three wind farm sites off the coast of South Wales and South West England, as well as…
Revisions to the economic link conditions saw increased landings of mackerel and herring by Scottish-registered pelagic vessels into Scotland in 2023, with more than 50% of their tonnage landed into Scotland. The new conditions introduced on 1 January, 2023 cover…
£12.8m investment by Morrisons builds on the continuing success of resurgent sardine fishery in Cornwall By Harry Owen In 2007, the Pilchard was rebranded as the Cornish sardine, and ever since, the fishery and the processing industry it supports have…
Seafish, the Shellfish Association of Great Britain and the Crab Management Group have published their Codes of Practice for the Welfare of Crabs, Lobsters, Crawfish and Nephrops. This followed two years of preparation, including a comprehensive review of legislation and…
A second man has been charged with connection with the States of Jersey Police investigation into the collision between the Jersey trawler L’Ecume II and the Condor ferry Commodore Goodwill on 8 December, 2022 that resulted in the loss of…
The Isle of Man queenie fishery, which for 2024 looks set to trawl only, reached the halfway stage at the end of July, with 45% of the 726t quota taken by the end of the fourth week of the season.…
Steve Reed, the new secretary of state for Defra, had a first meeting at the start of August with over 200 industry, trade association and NGO representatives from across the farming, fishing, food and environmental sectors, where he set out…
Micky Hill, known across the potting sector as the manufacturer of a wide range of crab, lobster and whelk pots, shares his long struggle to reopen the investigation into the capsize of the scalloper JMT M 99 in July 2015,…
Around 70 international arrivals on skilled worker visas since launch of NIFPO scheme By Paul Scott Earlier this year, Fishing News covered the arrival in Northern Ireland of the first group of international crew who entered the UK under the…
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