The UK minister for employment has pledged to look at how job centres can do more to encourage local people to work in the North East seafood sector, following a meeting with the industry in Aberdeen. Guy Opperman (pictured above),…
Saturday show dropped in favour of new weekday timing for the Skipper Expo Mara Media, the organiser of the Scottish Skipper Expo, has confirmed the dates for the 2024 show. In a change which it says reflects ‘overall majority’ exhibitor…
Scottish group Skipinnish gave the live premiere of their breakout hit ‘The Clearances Again’ at a packed Aberdeen Music Hall on Friday, 12 May, the first day of the Scottish Skipper Expo in the city. Whilst there were many fishing…
A cross-party group of MPs and MSPs wrote to new prime minister Liz Truss immediately upon her appointment last week to press the case for a joint bid by Aberdeen and Peterhead as the site of one of two expected…
Scottish Skipper Expo 2022, which will be held at the new venue of the P&J Live arena in Aberdeen, is set to take place on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 May. Sponsored by the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, this will be…
In light of the ongoing coronavirus situation, it is with great regret that we have decided to cancel the presentation evening for the Fishing News Awards 2020, previously scheduled for May 14th. The Awards programme will otherwise continue as planned.…
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…
Aberdeenshire Council has announced that the night watchman service at Macduff Harbour will continue to operate. The service had been earmarked for closure, as part of a review to look at the structure and responsibilities within the harbour’s service, with…
Former Aberdeen trawlerman Rab Youngman is campaigning passionately for a statue to be erected in memory of the trawlers, and the men that crewed the fleet, which until little more than a generation ago, had long provided the lifeblood of…
As the two nostalgic photos on this page show, some fifty years ago Aberdeen harbour was home to a large fleet of whitefish vessels supported an equally imposing whitefish processing sector. At this time, Aberdeen was firmly established as the…
