Marine Scotland

  • New call for action on gill-netters

    New call for action on gill-netters

    28th August 2023

    Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael is to lobby the UK government to put pressure on Germany after yet more revelations about the fleet of foreign gill-netters operating in Shetland waters.

  • Authorities floundering as lobster businesses attacked

    Authorities floundering as lobster businesses attacked

    10th August 2023

    Questions are being asked of Marine Scotland, the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency and the local police force by the Fife inshore industry after a vessel was deliberately sunk in Methil Yacht Club in the early hours of 28 July.

  • Marine Scotland licensing deemed ‘unlawful’

    Marine Scotland licensing deemed ‘unlawful’

    6th July 2023

    Legal challenge by Open Seas calls issuing of licences to scallop dredgers and bottom trawlers into question The Scottish government was still considering its reaction as FN went to press, nearly a week after a judge ruled that its licensing…

  • Situations Vacant: Marine Scotland Appointment For Six Chairs

    Situations Vacant: Marine Scotland Appointment For Six Chairs

    18th November 2022

    Appointment for six Chairs at Marine Scotland for Outer Hebrides Regional Inshore Fisheries Group North and East Coast Fisheries Group Orkney Regional Inshore Fisheries Group Shetland Inshore Fisheries Group South West Coast Fisheries Group North West Coast Fisheries Group Marine…

  • Berried lobsters: Ban introduced in Shetland

    Berried lobsters: Ban introduced in Shetland

    5th October 2022

    The Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation (SSMO) has brought in Scotland’s first ban on landing egg-bearing lobsters, in a move driven by local creel fishermen. Lobsters are considered reasonably plentiful in Shetland waters, with around 30,000 lobsters landed annually in recent…

  • Pelagic catchers slam changes

    Pelagic catchers slam changes

    4th October 2022

    The economic link changes mainly affect the pelagic sector, which makes significant landings abroad, mostly into Norway but also Denmark and Ireland, because better prices can often be obtained there than in Scotland. Scottish pelagic processors have called for more…

  • SCFF: Mixed reaction to creel reduction proposals

    SCFF: Mixed reaction to creel reduction proposals

    14th September 2022

    The Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation (SCFF) gave a broad welcome to the principle behind the proposals aired by the Clyde Fishermen’s Association within the West Coast RIFG, whilst also questioning the overall benefits of a creel cap on individual vessels…

  • SFA and greens issue joint call for gill-netting ban

    SFA and greens issue joint call for gill-netting ban

    13th June 2022

    Fishermen in Shetland have joined forces with the local Green party to demand a ban on gill-netting in Scottish waters. This has been a serious issue for over a decade, and the unlikely alliance between fishermen and greens is symbolic…

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