Share a day in the working life of a Brixham-based gear maestro Family, friendship, fishing and the sea are very much intertwined for Darren ‘Edd’ Edwards, founder of Brixham Trawl Makers, with each playing a pivotal role in the development…
A group of 12 divers is set to head to Shetland later this year in a bid to recover lost or discarded fishing gear and help to clean up the seas around the isles, reports Hans Marter. The work will…
German car manufacturer BMW has announced that its neue Klasse models will feature trim parts partially made from recycled fishing nets and ropes, reports Paul Scott. From 2025 onwards, the neue Klasse range will incorporate trims featuring around 30% plastic…
A Welsh NGO, Neptune’s Army of Rubbish Collectors (NARC), held an event with commercial fishermen last week to celebrate its achievements to date and raise wider awareness across the Welsh fishing community of the services it offers. Formed in 2005…
Ghost Fishing UK, a finalist in The Sustainability Award category in this year’s Fishing News Awards, is a registered charity dedicated to removing abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear. Its aim is to remove, where practicable, potentially lethal entanglement hazards…
A new and robust underwater camera system, developed to allow fishers to monitor gear performance underwater, or the behaviour of shellfish entering or approaching pots, has received MMO funding for six trials onboard a variety of UK commercial fishing boats.…
With the launch of a third call for applications, Fishing News is taking a closer look at some of the projects already supported by the UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF). This week’s featured project is a South Devon trial aiming…
Welsh fishermen working from the remote beach launch site of Porth Meudwy, on the Llyn peninsula, gave an update to Fishing News following the theft of six outboard engines in a single evening in October (Fishing News, 14 October, ‘Engine…
Danish fishing gear company Cosmos Trawl, part of the Hampiðjan Group, has designed and developed a new selectivity device that it says looks very promising. The device was developed and designed in co-operation with Nordsøtrawl, the fishing gear workshop of…
Danish fisheries leaders have backed comments made last week by the Danish fisheries minister, who accused the UK of reneging on parts of the post-Brexit TCA, placing them in the context of the UK ‘call for information’ on the sandeel…
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