Andy Read reports on training innovations at the Scottish Maritime Academy I visited the Scottish Maritime Academy in Peterhead last month whilst one of the ‘hybrid’ sessions for the Class II ticket was taking place. Linda Hope, manager of the…
Peterhead market reported a downturn in fish moving across the auction in 2021, which was below 1m boxes for the first time in several years, although this headline figure very much does not tell the full story for the port,…
Boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Lunar Bow PD 265 LOA: 80.2m Built: Karstensens shipyard, Skagen, 2020 Type: Midwater trawler/purse-seiner Home port: Peterhead Got some pictures of your own to share? It can be an image of anything…
Following the sustained period of severe weather that has restricted fishing all around the UK, boats were starting to head out again from Peterhead in the middle of last week. Orion BF 432 makes for shelter at Peterhead after a…
Boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Leanne PD 345 LOA: 23.38m Built: Campbeltown Shipyard, 1981 Type: Twin-rig trawler Home port: Peterhead Got some pictures of your own to share? It can be an image of anything related…
As mackerel in the North Atlantic begin their customary early-year practice of swimming strongly into the southwest along the deepwater edge west of Scotland, David Linkie looks back eight years to a trip on the Peterhead midwater trawler Pathway PD…
The Shetland midwater trawler Altaire LK 429 was the first boat to land mackerel at Peterhead last week, on Tuesday, 5 January, reports David Linkie. A few hours after starting to pump fish ashore to the Northbay Pelagic processing factory,…
Featuring a full-length forecastle deck and rigged to pump pelagic fish over the stern, Serene LK 297 was the first of its class in the world when delivered to Whalsay skipper Bobby Polson and partners by West Contractors AS of…
– Green pressure on Scots – First herring landed at Lerwick – New quay for Eastbourne fleet finally underway – No-deal Brexit looms as clock ticks – Scots government blasts UK ‘hard Brexit ideology’ – Temporary sea defences for…
Once more bringing you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Harvest Hope PD 120 LOA: 33.75m Built: Riverside Fabrications Ltd, East Looe 1999 Type: Single-rig whitefish stern trawler Home port: Peterhead We’ll be back next week…
