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  • Win Islands in a Common Sea by Jenny Jefferies

    Win Islands in a Common Sea by Jenny Jefferies

    10th June 2024

    Following her successful For The Love Of cookbook series, championing fishing in the UK, award-winning author Jenny Jefferies has compiled a brand new book to celebrate and share the stories of fishermen from all over the world with Islands in a…

  • Shellfish die-off ‘must never happen again’

    Shellfish die-off ‘must never happen again’

    10th June 2024

    Fishermen in Teesside and North Yorkshire are continuing to suffer from the effects of the mass shellfish die-off that first hit the region in autumn 2021. Research by academics at York, Durham and Northumbria universities funded by The Fishmongers’ Company…

  • Fishing News Readers’ Photos: Win £250!

    Fishing News Readers’ Photos: Win £250!

    10th June 2024

    We’re looking to our readers to send us their best fishing industry-related photos, which will not only be featured in Fishing News, the UK’s market-leading commercial fishing newspaper, but will put its photographer in with a chance of winning £250!…

  • Black bream: New research into the state of the stock

    Black bream: New research into the state of the stock

    7th June 2024

    Black bream is increasingly important to both gill-netters and rod and line vessels in the Channel, as well as being a popular angling fish – but although catch rates are reported to be rising, little is known about the state…

  • FaSS reopens – three days after closure was announced

    FaSS reopens – three days after closure was announced

    6th June 2024

    Three days after the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) closed to new applications, and just two days after the UK general election was called – only the most cynical FN reader could see this as anything other than a complete…

  • Oslo sees continued failure to agree pelagic TACs

    Oslo sees continued failure to agree pelagic TACs

    5th June 2024

    Coastal states negotiations on pelagic stocks in Oslo last week seemed likely to conclude without any breakthrough on quota shares. Meanwhile, the blue whiting season was drawing to an end, with the Norwegian industry landing 8,000t last week. The talks…

  • Islands in a Common Sea: Exclusive extract from new book

    Islands in a Common Sea: Exclusive extract from new book

    4th June 2024

    Award-winning author Jenny Jefferies, whose two previous books celebrating the best of small-scale British seafood and fishing businesses were featured in FN, launched her latest title this March. A lavishly produced book, Islands in a Common Sea looks at artisanal…

  • Rockall deal vetoed by David Cameron

    Rockall deal vetoed by David Cameron

    4th June 2024

    A deal between Ireland and Scotland to allow Irish fishing vessels to return to Rockall has been vetoed by UK foreign secretary David Cameron. Full details of the proposed deal – which constitutionally falls within the remit of the UK…

  • Pollution threat to Whitehaven vessels

    Pollution threat to Whitehaven vessels

    4th June 2024

    Whitehaven fishermen are asking FN readers with good memories for information about the run-off pollution from the Dalquarran coal mine that was recorded in Girvan on the Clyde from 1979 to 1982. It was eventually rectified when the National Coal…

  • Five licences issued for albacore fishery

    Five licences issued for albacore fishery

    3rd June 2024

    The MMO has confirmed that it has issued five licences to UK vessels to fish for albacore tuna this summer, of the possible nine that it indicated were available. The UK has a quota of 630t for the species –…

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