This week in Fishing News you will find: – Anglers’ IFCA legal threat – Kirkella named by HRH The Princess Royal – Discards ban threat to MSC eco-label – Live prawn export deal with China – Peterhead first port to…
This week in Fishing News you will find: – Discards ban shambles – Fishing mackerel west of snow-topped St Kilda – No-deal Brexit ‘catastrophic’ for Scots seafood – Nick Prust (1959-2019): A lifelong fighter for SW fishermen – Tag and…
John Worrall recently spent a morning with Welsh inshore skipper Steve De-Waine, netting for skate and rays from Neyland, on the Holton 24 Peter M Now here’s a symptom of a wider condition. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there…
The coast of west Wales is at once scenic, remote and self-contained. Most settlements have had a castle and fishing, and many still have, and while the castles are ruinous, the fishing is not, or not yet anyway, despite a…
SFF: ‘Claims based on pseudo-economics’ A group representing Scottish inshore creel fishermen is calling on the Scottish government to give Scotland’s creel fishermen a 50% share of the Nephrops fishery by 2022, to enable them to supply the growing live…
EU landings of Nephrops are well below the EU quota, partly because of the cod recovery plan for cod, reports Tim Oliver. This applies particularly in the North Sea, where Nephrops grounds have been closed to protect cod. This has…
The Irish Sea prawn fishery is showing encouraging present and future signs. Above: The Kilkeel inshore prawn trawlers Jack the Lad and Children’s Hope in Eyemouth last month. Following above-average fishing on the traditional prawn grounds on the western side of…
