“I love helping people,” Chris Williams, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) fisheries expert, told Fishing News. “I’ve never before been sent so many messages of best wishes from people. What we do really makes a difference.” After graduating from the…
“The last five years have given me a new lease of life,” Maryport-based fisherman and owner of quayside fish sales business Chelaris Fresh Fish, Shaun Humphreys (pictured above in the centre), told Fishing News. “I’ve been fishing all my life.…
“I grew up on the Beara peninsula in West Cork, Ireland, with the ocean around me,” Dr Susan Steele, executive director at the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA), told Fishing News. “I decided at the very early age of three…
“It’s been a personal ambition to try and convince people of the UK that they can source good-quality seafood, and they should source good-quality seafood,” Jimmy Buchan, managing director of multi-award-wining Amity Fish Company, told Fishing News. “And we can…
“We started out as two men in a van,” James Forster (pictured above right with fellow founder of JCF Marine John Clarkson) co-founder and director of boatbuilder JCF Marine, told Fishing News. “Now, just a few years later, we’re four men,…
“I often get told by my American guests that my crawfish boil is the best they’ve ever been to,” crayfisherman Bob Ring told Fishing News. “That’s a massive compliment, and I’m quite proud of that.” Clapham-based Bob’s interest in crayfish…
“Fishing has always been in my blood. It’s all I’ve ever known. I could never see myself doing anything else,” Kilkeel-based fisherwoman Erin Chambers told Fishing News. With Brian Chambers – CEO of the Anglo-North Irish Fish Producers’ Organisation, and…
“If my life has been characterised by one thing, it’s serendipity,” Belgium-based Brian O’Riordan, policy adviser at Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) told Fishing News. “So often, being in the right place at the right time has steered me…
“Piece it all together, and there’s a lot going on in the space of my day,” Mike Park OBE, chief executive of the Scottish White Fish Producers’ Association (SWFPA), told Fishing News. Growing up in a house situated just a…
“I do enjoy watching a customer go away happy,” Kilkeel-based boatbuilder Gerry Smyth (pictured above, left, with Will Treneer, co-owner of the 14.95m Inter Nos PZ 46 – built by G Smyth Boats) told Fishing News. “I’ve always said that…
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