The Scottish government has announced its funding package for seafood businesses and marine organisations through Marine Fund Scotland for the new financial year. A total of up to £14m will be available in 2023-24 ‘to encourage the sustainable use of…
A senior Westminster minister is to visit Banff and Buchan later this month to chair a meeting of the Scottish Seafood Industry Action Group and meet industry representatives to discuss support for the Scottish processing sector, reports Tim Oliver. John…
Scottish seafood processors are demanding urgent action on rising energy costs, which they say are threatening to drive some factories out of business. In a letter to the two candidates to become prime minister, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, ahead…
The prospect of a resolution to the pelagic weighing row that has dogged this year’s blue whiting fishery west of Ireland was set back last week by the news that the maiden catch of the new Lauren D 95 had…
The first sections of Northbay Pelagic’s new state-of-the-art pelagic fish processing factory are now being erected at Peterhead, reports David Linkie. Scheduled for completion in the early autumn in time for the closing few weeks of the North Sea herring…
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