The saying ‘as rare as hen’s teeth’ is usually interpreted as ‘impossible to find’, but it really means ‘almost’ impossible to find. The same is true when trying to find a good second-hand fishing boat, and finding a particular type…
Live fast and die young is a phrase commonly used by kids, those who never want to grow old. It’s strange how their beliefs change when beyond the age of 30. Personally, I highly recommend staying alive for as long…
Skipper Expo Int Aberdeen 2018 gets underway on Friday, 25 May – and due to popular demand will be opening one hour earlier than usual on both days of the show (25 May, 9am to 5pm, and 26 May, 9am…
The iconic Great Yarmouth steam drifter Lydia Eva left the river Yare last week and headed out to sea under its own power for the first time since undergoing significant boiler repairs. Pending an inspection from a marine surveyor, the…
Two passionate fishmongers braved the elements as they made a 140-mile journey from Stoke-on-Trent to Grimsby in a bid to raise money for the Fishermen’s Mission. Tesco fishmongers, Emma McKeating and Nicola Rowbotham, have fallen in love with the fishing industry since they…
The coast of west Wales is at once scenic, remote and self-contained. Most settlements have had a castle and fishing, and many still have, and while the castles are ruinous, the fishing is not, or not yet anyway, despite a…
Next month will herald the dawn of a new era at Peterhead, when the port’s 10,000-box whitefish market, built as part of the £53m North Harbour development, is used for the first time. David Linkie reports Faithlie is one of…
The new 13m Shannon-class Stella and Humfrey Berkeley (ON-1332) arrived at her station of Leverburgh in the Outer Hebrides on 21 April, 2018, to be welcomed by hundreds of people who lined the small pier eager to see the new…
Should I have gone to Specsavers? Most small-boat fishermen of Cornwall are going through the ‘famine’ part of the old saying ‘feast or famine’, yet the lucky few able to fish close to the rocky ‘edges’ in offshore westerly wind…
HMS Forth, the first of the new Batch 2 River-Class Offshore Patrol Vessels (Fishing News, 5 April), was commissioned at Portsmouth Naval Base on Friday, 13 April, 2018, reports John Periam The arrival of HMS Forth marks a significant increase…