We are delighted to be able to reveal that top Scottish comedian Fred MacAulay, who hosted the awards to great acclaim back in 2018, will be returning as our host for the 2024 Fishing News Awards. Well-known as a frequent…
The countdown is on to the 2024 Fishing News Awards, and nominations are coming in fast. Have you made your nominations yet? The only awards event dedicated to recognising achievement, innovation and success in the UK and Irish commercial fishing…
We are delighted to launch the Fishing News Awards 2024, which will once again take place at The Chester Hotel in Aberdeen. The countdown is on to a night when we can gather with friends and colleagues to celebrate the…
A national charity has made its first visit to Shetland to retrieve ghost gear. Ghost Fishing UK was founded in 2015 and is run entirely by volunteers who dedicate their free time to removing lost and discarded gear from the…
A bespoke menu featuring locally sourced, top-quality seafood has been confirmed for this year’s Fishing News Awards gala dinner. The gala dinner will start in style with an exquisite langoustine tart, which showcases top-quality prawns sourced from the SFO in…
Meet one of the nominees for the Sustainability Award in the 2023 Fishing News Awards: Journey Blue “Journey Blue has been set up to change behaviours,” Alistair Lawson (pictured above) told Fishing News. He and his wife Louise came up…
Meet one of the nominees for the Sustainability Award in the 2023 Fishing News Awards: Fishy Filaments Fishy Filaments has been quietly working away in a corner of a Cornish harbour for the last five years with the aim of…
With so many different aspects to the remit of the Fishing News Awards’ Sustainability Award (sponsored by The Fishmongers’ Company’s Fisheries Charitable Trust), it was possibly inevitable that such a diverse range of individuals and organisations would make the judges’…
A safety campaign to reduce fatalities and accidents in the UK’s under-10m fishing fleet has been launched. The latest Home and Dry campaign features small-boat skippers from across the country reflecting on what they miss most when out at sea…
This year’s Fishing News awards, for the first time, bring together three separate panels of experts who will decide the winner in three categories: The Sustainability Award, Boat of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Two of the panels…
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