Specialist low-loader units were used to manoeuvre the new Fraserburgh pair-seiner Crystal River FR 178 from Macduff Shipyards’ fabrication hall at Buckie and down an adjacent slipway at low water, reports David Linkie. The trawler was then supported by shores…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Eternal Light FR 35 LOA: 19.2m Built: Macduff Shipyards Ltd Buckie 2019 Type: Scalloper Home port: Buckie We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus.…
Stonehaven static-gear skipper Ian Mathieson, and crewmen and Buckie brothers Neal and Derek Clarke, fished their first crabbing trips on the new 14.6m potter Dalwhinnie A 913 towards the end of last month, reports David Linkie Built to a high…
This week in Fishing News you will find: – Bid to ditch FQAs – Gove pledges support for Scottish industry – Iceland stakes claim to Rockall waters – Stock assessments central to scallop fishery management – Plans for Donegal sea…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Caledonia III BCK 35 LOA: 19m Built: Macduff Shipyards Buckie 2018 Type: Twin-rig trawler Home port: Buckie We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got…
Macduff Shipyards delivers 19m twin-rig trawler built at Buckie for local skipper Steven Clarke Moray skipper Steven Clarke and the crew of Caledonia III are now twin-rig trawling on grounds to the north of Scotland from Scrabster harbour, reports David…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Zara Annabel BCK 126 LOA: 26.248m Built: Kramer & Booy Kootsterille Holland 1968 Type: Beam scalloper Home port: Buckie We’ll be back next week with our latest…
Asteria BRD 250, a design of 19m twin-rig trawler built by Macduff Shipyards in its fabrication hall at Buckie, for the father and son skippers Alasdair and Andrew Montgomery and the Asteria Fishing Company of Portree, Isle of Skye, was…
John Addison summarises a succession of anchor-seiners built at Buckie boatyards, Herd & Mackenzie, Jones, and Thomsons, between 1949 and 1976 Traditional Danish-style anchor-seiners regularly worked out of Buckie harbour when fishing in the Moray Firth between October and March…
Each Week We’ll Be Bringing You Our Boat Of The Week Taken From Fishing News Name: Transcend BF 61 LOA: 19.92m Built: Astilleros Armon SA Navia Spain 2000 Type: Twin-rig whitefish trawler Home port: Buckie We’ll be back next week with…
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