This week in Fishing News you will find: • ‘No Sell-out’ Assurance with for fishing industry in Brexit negotiations • Discards ban threat to MSC certification • Anger as NI vessels allowed inside Ireland’s 6-mile limit without industry consultation •…
For the first time, the North of Tyne fishing sector has a Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG). The FLAG is one of six selected in England who each have £800,000 of European Maritime Fisheries Funding from the Marine Management Organisation.…
The landing obligation/discards ban could represent ‘the biggest push for more selective fishing in the European Union in the history of the CFP’, according to a recent study, reports Tim Oliver. But the study also says that probable weak implementation…
Sea fisheries, aquaculture and processing businesses will receive more than £8m of EU and Scottish government funding, including £1.6m for projects in Shetland, to boost growth, protect jobs and develop sustainability. The latest round of the European and Maritime Fisheries…
The RNLI Fishing Safety Team recently held a two-day, cold water safety training event at the RNLI Survival Centre in Poole, Dorset. The event was put together to find out if fishermen would change their safety culture if shown…
After a busy week, the nominations for the Fishing News Awards 2017 have been whittled down into shortlists for each of the 12 categories. With three times the number of nominations of last year, these shortlists represent every corner of the…
Severe north-westerly gales in the middle of last week skewed whitefish landings at Peterhead, where over half of the weekly total of 26,410 boxes were landed before sea conditions rapidly deteriorated, reports David Linkie. Eight boats, Challenge, Farnella, Tranquility, Carina,…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Threat to clean Brexit • Fishing News Awards 2017 shortlist announced • Row over scallop fishery VMS costs • NFFO message to owners: ‘Make use of EMFF funds’ • Feature: MCA National…
Lifeboats have sailed into the history books all along the Fylde coast of Lancashire. Above: The former Fleetwood Ann Letitia Russell on the slipway of the old seafront lifeboat house before being withdrawn from service in 1976. This boat has now…
The beam trawler William of Ladram E 33 broke the record for the earnings for an individual boat at Brixham Trawler Agents (BTA) on Wednesday morning of last week by grossing just over £75,000. Above: William of Ladram broke the port…
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