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  • Flavours of the future: innovations to preserve taste and reduce waste

    Flavours of the future: innovations to preserve taste and reduce waste

    17th October 2023

    With the UK Seafood Innovation Fund’s latest research and development projects underway, Fishing News is delving into some of the innovations that the fund has supported. This week: how two different supply chain innovations could help feed the UK’s appetite…

  • Bottle opener to lever lobster funding

    Bottle opener to lever lobster funding

    7th April 2023

    A gentlemen’s lifestyle store has found a way to help ‘open up’ more support for the town’s lobster hatchery. The store, Furbellow & Co, which stocks a ‘carefully curated range of products’, will donate £3 from the sale of every…

  • Funding plea to restore iconic trawler

    Funding plea to restore iconic trawler

    9th January 2023

    A charity behind a project to restore a famous Grimsby trawler with the aim of returning her to her home port says that more funding is needed to carry out repairs, reports Paul Scott. The Ross Revenge, sister vessel of…

  • SW ‘to lose over £2m’ from UK-EU deal

    SW ‘to lose over £2m’ from UK-EU deal

    9th January 2023

    The English South West fishing industry stands to lose over £2m-worth of fishing opportunities as a result of the UK-EU fishing agreement for 2023 on shared stocks, according to the Cornish FPO (CFPO). The PO says there has also been…

  • £3.5m awarded to fishing research projects

    £3.5m awarded to fishing research projects

    27th December 2022

    Five research projects have been awarded funding totalling over £3.5m in the latest round of the Fisheries Industry Science Partnership (FISP) scheme, part of the £100m UK Seafood Fund. Seafish, in partnership with Bangor University, South Devon and Channel Shellfishermen…

  • New £3m Seafood Innovation Fund round open

    New £3m Seafood Innovation Fund round open

    28th September 2022

    The fourth round of the UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF) is now open for applications. Part of the £100m UK Seafood Fund, it aims to ‘champion a sustainable future for our seafood sector by seeking ideas from innovators looking to…

  • Minister: ‘No cash from £100m fund for fuel’

    Minister: ‘No cash from £100m fund for fuel’

    30th June 2022

    The government is not planning to use funds from the £100m UK Seafood Fund to help the industry cope with rocketing fuel prices, reports Tim Oliver. This was spelled out last week by Defra fisheries minister Lord Benyon in the…

  • McConalogue announces €45m support for processors

    McConalogue announces €45m support for processors

    26th May 2022

    Minister for agriculture, food and the marine Charlie McConalogue has announced approval for a scheme that will provide €45m in funding for capital investment projects by Irish seafood processing enterprises. The scheme is based on a recommendation of the Seafood…

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