Share a day in the life of Shetland’s small ports supervisor “I’ve always been at sea, all my life. I don’t remember ever not being on a boat. I’ve always had wet feet,” Ross Maclennan, small ports supervisor at Shetland…
Engine manufacturer Cummins will be visiting Fraserburgh and Peterhead this week as part of its ‘Scotland Trailer Tour’. The company will be in Fraserburgh on Tuesday, 6 June, and in Peterhead on Wednesday, 7 June, and is inviting skippers to…
Brixham fishmarket saw a record-breaking £60.8m-worth of fish auctioned during 2022, reports Paul Scott. The amount smashes its previous record of £43.6m, set in 2021, and includes a first- ever £2m week for the market, recorded in September. Barry Young,…
Lerwick Port Authority has reported that the gradual recovery in activity at Lerwick harbour continued in the fourth quarter of 2021 in the wake of Covid-19, with the year ending on a cautiously positive note. Annual figures show improvements in…
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…
It wasn’t quite a case of reinventing the wheel, but Lerwick Port Authority staff were definitely on the right road in sourcing fenders for a new pier – instead of importing an expensive system from the Far East, they devised…
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