RNLI president HRH the Duke of Kent was in Wells-next-the-Sea recently for the dedication and naming ceremony of the town’s new lifeboat station, Shannon-class lifeboat Duke of Edinburgh and SLARS launch and recovery rig. The state-of-the-art lifeboat was named in…
Nine crew on a French-registered fishing vessel were rescued off the Irish southwest coast after it ran aground. The 33m Spanish-owned Grand Saint Bernard was heading back out on 2 June after landing in Castletownbere when it ran up on…
Macduff Shipyards signed over the new Zenith BF 106 to Mark, Paul and Adam Robertson and sons last week, following the completion of successful sea trials at the end of May. The vessel steamed home to Fraserburgh on 1 June,…
The Faroe Islands announced last week what it claimed was an ‘extension of a port ban’ on Russian fishing vessels – but this does not apply to vessels that swapped quota with Faroe in the widely criticised deal, made earlier…
Following an absence of nearly a decade, the Fishermen’s Mission will once again have a presence on Grimsby docks after being gifted office space by a local business. WE1 Heritage, which restores heritage buildings in the town, offered the charity…
Share a day in the life of Shetland’s small ports supervisor “I’ve always been at sea, all my life. I don’t remember ever not being on a boat. I’ve always had wet feet,” Ross Maclennan, small ports supervisor at Shetland…
A new memorial to lost Highland seafarers has been unveiled in Wick. The Seafarers Memorial, designed by Scottish sculptor Alan Beattie Herriot, commemorates those lost to the sea from WK-registered vessels. The memorial, which stands 5m tall, depicts a figure…
Repeated warnings were ignored, and fishermen’s concerns were not listened to By Jerry Percy and Sarah Ready of the New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association The lack of independent testing prior to the national roll-out of the iVMS programme is yet…
Borders fishermen add their voices to the debate – whilst Greens appear to detect cuttlefish in Lamlash Bay Members of the Anglo Scottish Fishermen’s Association met Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire MSP Rachael Hamilton in Eyemouth at the end of May…
‘Easy-to-understand’ video launched ‘to support compliance’ A new video instructing Irish skippers on the correct use of electronic logbooks as part of the landing obligation has been criticised by the Irish South and West Fish Producers’ Organisation (IS&WFPO). The video,…
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