Back in 1999, while the world was fretting over the ‘Y2K’ bug, a new trade body to promote the seafood industry in Scotland was just getting off the ground – Seafood Scotland. Next year, the organisation, which was set up…
Winklepicker, merchant, marketeer, processor, auctioneer, chef, restauranteur, podcast host – but despite his earliest aspirations, one of the few roles industry pioneer Jim Cowie hasn’t undertaken is actual fishing. “I had no other interest than being a fisherman,” he told…
“It’s been a bit of a whirlwind, really,” Mike Roach told Fishing News at the end of his first six months as deputy chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO). “It’s enough of a challenge to learn…
Share a day in the life of Brixham inshore fisherman, Rob Adams. “If you ask my mum, she’ll tell you that I used to crawl into the sea laughing as a baby,” Rob Adams told Fishing News. “I got into…
Adrian Bartlett is a busy man – an ex-fisherman, seafood champion, vice chair of the industry-let charity Fishing into the Future (FITF) head of marine operations at Ecomotus, lecturer and newly appointed director of the Plymouth Fishing and Seafood Association.…
“I would have loved to have gone fishing, to be honest,” Alan Ure, risk management surveyor at Sunderland Marine, told Fishing News. “But I used to get horrible seasickness. It was one of my early goals to have been an…
“Meeting some of the fishermen – there are some real characters out there!” Carol Elliott, SeaFit manager told Fishing News. “Recently we held a health event with Dentaid, The Dental Charity, and one fisherman came out holding a tooth that…
Share a day in the life of the Norfolk fisherman and vessel owner who was named 2022 Fishing News Awards Under-10m Fisherman of the Year
Share a day in the life of NIFCA environmental inshore fisheries and conservation officer, Andrew Boon… “From a very young age, probably six or seven years old, I’ve always had a fascination with the sea. One day I turned round…
Fishing News caught up with Mark McGorrin, chief mate on UK Fisheries’ last distant-water trawler Kirkella, when the vessel was fishing southeast of Edgeøya Island, in the Barents Sea.
