Eyemouth

  • ‘Vehement NEWS opposition’ to HMPAs

    ‘Vehement NEWS opposition’ to HMPAs

    8th June 2023

    Borders fishermen add their voices to the debate – whilst Greens appear to detect cuttlefish in Lamlash Bay Members of the Anglo Scottish Fishermen’s Association met Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire MSP Rachael Hamilton in Eyemouth at the end of May…

  • Black Friday: The Eyemouth Fishing Disaster

    Black Friday: The Eyemouth Fishing Disaster

    29th October 2021

    One hundred and forty years ago this month, the Scottish port of Eyemouth suffered Britain’s worst ever fishing disaster, when 189 men and boys perished on what locals still call Black Friday. Brian W Lavery recalls the tragedy Eyemouth’s fishermen…

  • Rebecca: Prawn twin-rig trawling overnight from Eyemouth

    Rebecca: Prawn twin-rig trawling overnight from Eyemouth

    26th November 2020

    David Linkie looks back to a night aboard Eyemouth skipper Alan Blackie’s twin-rig prawn trawler Rebecca LH 11 in August 2014 Although the dusk to dawn summer Nephrops fishery in southeast Scotland no longer attracts the number of boats it…

  • New Issue: Fishing News 13.12.18

    New Issue: Fishing News 13.12.18

    11th December 2018

    This week in Fishing News you will find: – Electronic catch recording for under-10m fleet – Crunch Brexit vote this week – Coastal states agree 20% mackerel cut for 2019 – Early records and winter weather in Shetland – Sturgeon…

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