– Grants for Welsh fleet – NFFO ramps up pressure for package in England – PO chief to Eustice: ‘England being left behind’ – EMFF aid for halted fishing – Frustrations in Irish fleet over Covid response delays…
– Brexit trade-off danger – ‘Complex’ talks and need to avoid ‘skirmishes’ at sea – Fighter for salmon netsmen steps down – Greens defend their role in EU advisory councils – Draft legislation for Irish penalty points system underway –…
Passion and vigilance, allied to a lifetime’s experience and local knowledge of tidal trigonometry, delivers a return The salmon drift-net fishery has sustained fishermen and their families along the coast of northeast England for generations. Whitby skipper Martin Hopper is…
Salmon netsmen on the Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire coast again face a period of great uncertainty as regards to their future. With an interim Net Limitation Order coming up at the end of this year, lifelong netsmen are extremely concerned…
Salmon and sea trout fishermen in Filey on the Yorkshire coast have put forward voluntary proposals to restrict their fishery to try to preserve it, and Filey’s fishing heritage, for future generations. They put forward their proposals at a recent…
