With the first Scottish pelagic vessels starting to fish North Sea mackerel southeast of Shetland last week, David Linkie looks back to a trip on the Peterhead midwater vessel Lunar Bow PD 265 in the second week of October 2014…
– Foreign crewing hopes – North Sea mackerel fishery gets underway – UK signs historic fisheries agreement with Norway – UK fleet nets £987m from 622,000t in 2019 – Aid package lined up for N Ireland – UK offers…
New Peterhead pelagic vessel quickly starts to prove her capabilities on west-of-4° mackerel The new Lunar Bow arrived at Peterhead from Denmark at the same time as mackerel started to cross the 4° line and swim strongly into the southwest…
Extensive new-build programme brings a wide range of benefits More than 50 new boats, ranging in size from 7m to 80m, are scheduled to be delivered to UK skippers in the next three years, representing an unprecedented reinvestment in the…
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