Skipper James Third and his son AJ Third have bought the twin-rig prawn trawler Challenger FR 90, renaming her Harvest Moon FR 366 (pictured above). The vessel was built in 2010 by Parkol Marine Engineering to an SC McAllister design…
In June, we held our annual Fishing News Awards, which recognise the achievements of fishermen, companies, products and initiatives across the UK and Irish fishing industry. Due to the restrictions imposed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, we followed…
Boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Osprey WK 4 LOA: 20.25m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering, Whitby, 2020 Type: Vivier-crabber Home port: Scrabster Got some pictures of your own to share? It can be an image of anything related…
Boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Kelly of Ladram BM 800 LOA: 19m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering, Whitby, 2009 Type: Whelker Home port: Brixham Got some pictures of your own to share? It can be an image…
Boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Venturous LK 75 LOA: 26m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering, Whitby 2015 Type: Single-rig whitefish trawler Home port: Symbister Got some pictures of your own to share? It can be an image…
Banff father and son skippers take delivery of Whitby-built twin-rig trawler Built by Parkol Marine Engineering for skippers John and David Clark, the new 20.4m dual-purpose prawn and whitefish twin-rig trawler Reliance III BF 800 sailed from Fraserburgh towards the…
Skippers Jamie Clarke and Scott Bremner and the crew of the 34m Alcedo are highly impressed with the level of performance delivered by the beam scalloper in the first month of fishing, reports David Linkie. After Alcedo landed her maiden…
Skipper Andrew ‘Watty’ Watt berthed the 18.8m Osprey WK 4 in its home port of Scrabster last weekend at the end of a 285-mile delivery passage from Whitby, just three weeks after the vivier-crabber was launched into the river Esk,…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Virtuous FR 253 LOA: 24m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering, Whitby 2019 Type: Twin-rig prawn trawler Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Name: Carvela K 751 LOA: 19m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering Teesside 2019 Type: Vivier-crabber Home port: Stromness, Orkney We’ll be back next week with our latest boat…
