£80,000 fine for ‘entirely avoidable’ accident on Scrabster vivier-crabber Scrabster Seafoods Ltd, based at Scrabster harbour, was fined £80,000 at Tain Sheriff Court on 7 June after pleading guilty to health and safety breaches that resulted in the death of…
Hopes that ‘quota for access’ swap will encourage other states to fish within historic quota shares Negotiations from Norway and the UK have confirmed a quota and access agreement for mackerel in 2023 that will see the two countries share…
The latest twin-rig trawler to join Fraserburgh fleet has the distinction of being the UK’s first Tier III-compliant build. Here is a snippet of our look at the Excel BF 110… The crew, suited and booted, at the launch party…
Major news story on foreign crew on Kilkeel vessels ignores both the positives and the progress made during the course of the investigation The Financial Times printed a major feature last Thursday, as FN was going to press, after a…
Share a day in the life of Cefas fisheries technician, Rose Finneran “I love what I do,” Centre for Environment, Fishers and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) fisheries technical Rose Finneran told Fishing News. “Everyone says that I’m the Cefas poster girl…
The Seafarers’ Charity is again celebrating Maritime Safety Week – which takes place from 3 to 7 July – with a safety drill competition, calling on everyone who works at sea to get involved by practising and improving their crew…
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…
