The Royal Society of Marine Artists and Mall Galleries have announced the prizes and awards from the Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition 2021, with many of the winners celebrating the fishing industry. Fishermen in Newlyn were the subjects…
This week in Fishing News you will find: • Ports Brexit Demonstrations • €2.2m capital investment programme for harbour projects in Ireland • Grimsby pair-trawl pioneer Jens Bojen, 1943-2018 • Refit to French-built vivier-crabber Pen Glas • Brixham beam-scalloper Golden Promise…
Fishing News is pleased to announce the launch of a new, monthly feature focused on answering scientific questions sent in by readers. It will be run by researcher Hannah Fennell and will focus on the science of fish and the fishing industry. If you have…
An Essex catamaran designer and former fisherman has written a condensed history of the UK fishing industry. The article explains the structure of the industry, and sets out management policies over the past 40 years and the adverse effect they…
When Fishing News last visited Littlehampton, in September 2011, there was a lot of frustration from the fishermen due to having their pontoons removed and being forced to moor on the other side of the tidal Arun River, restricting their…
The mid 1920s saw a wealth of creativity, from archetypal literature to innovative London bus design and the development of television. Notable triumphs in 1925 include the first television image being transmitted in London by John Baird and the introduction…
Ireland’s Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) has set its new strategy, indicating its key priorities for the regulation of the State’s sea-fisheries and sea food sectors until 2017. Ireland’s sectors employ over 11,000 people and are estimated to be worth a…
The first sections of Northbay Pelagic’s new state-of-the-art pelagic fish processing factory are now being erected at Peterhead, reports David Linkie. Scheduled for completion in the early autumn in time for the closing few weeks of the North Sea herring…
Following the report published last week by the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which examined the underuse of Ireland’s six Fishery Harbour Centres, Thomas Pringle, Independent TD for Donegal South West has called on Minister Simon Coveney to refocus investment…
