Two NGOs, Oceana and the Blue Marine Foundation, have launched a widely reported attack on the fuel tax exemption provided to the UK fishing industry, claiming that this is ‘threatening to empty the ocean of fish’. The attack follows a…
Two gear technologists from New Zealand completed a whistle-stop tour of the UK at the end of last month, discussing the potential uses of their novel codend technology – which has now become widespread in the Kiwi fishing industry –…
Plymouth-based scientist Richard Kirby, a plankton expert, looks at the links between bluefin tuna and water temperature, and suggests that climate change may disrupt the historic cycles that have driven tuna migration in the past Atlantic bluefin tuna have returned…
Fishing News teamed up with MarineCo, the UK supplier of fishing gear from New Zealand company Stormline, to offer prizes to children sending in pictures of themselves doing ‘something fishy’. We had a great response, and our apologies to all…
NFFO president Paul Gilson, who has worked on a variety of fisheries from his home port of Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, got a surprise name-check during Prime Minister’s Question Time in parliament last week. It came when his local MP Anna…
Forty of the 62 registered boats at the Cornish port of Mevagissey are now ‘under serious financial pressure’ following the imposition of the zero TAC on pollack fishing for 2024. Chairman of Mevagissey Fishermen’s Association Nick West says he fears…
Inshore fishermen on the south coast of Cornwall have breathed a sigh of relief after applications for two seaweed farms were withdrawn, following a high-profile campaign that included a wide variety of maritime interests. The twin proposals to develop the…
A ground-breaking pilot project is being set up in Scotland to protect the welfare of fishing vessel crews and provide them with a route for formal grievance procedures. The new Worker-Driven Social Responsibility (WSR) programme for UK fishing is the…
We are delighted to be able to reveal that top Scottish comedian Fred MacAulay, who hosted the awards to great acclaim back in 2018, will be returning as our host for the 2024 Fishing News Awards. Well-known as a frequent…
On completion, Ossian will be one of the largest floating offshore wind farms in the world, producing up to 3.6GW of renewable energy – enough to power up to 6m homes annually. Occupying 858km2 of seabed 84km off the Angus…
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