In this issue of Fishing News, our lead story is Tim Oliver’s report on Shetland fishermen wanting the Scottish government to take action against large fleets of foreign gill-netters working off Shetland, Plus the latest news and features from the…
Call for Scots government to act Shetland fishermen want the Scottish government to take action against large fleets of foreign gill-netters working off Shetland, reports Tim Oliver. They say the vessels close off large areas of their traditional trawling grounds…
In this issue of Fishing News, our lead story is Tim Oliver’s report on the government setting provisional TACs for UK-EU shared stocks for the remainder of 2021, or until an agreement is reached with the EU Plus the latest news…
In this week’s issue of Fishing News you’ll find… NI Slams Quota Shares MMO: ‘We don’t have data on EU catches in UK EEZ’ Less space to fish as green pressures mount Freshwater Five appeal fails Injunction sought against trawler…
Loss of access to Irish 6-12 zone ignored Northern Ireland says that Westminster has ‘plundered’ its fishing industry in the share-out of extra post-Brexit quota among the four UK administrations announced last week – as it feared would happen, reports…
Scots trial new Quota Management Groups QMGs will run alongside POs until end of 2021 New arrangements for managing quotas through new legal bodies called quota management groups (QMGs) are being trialled in Scotland. These organisations, which will have to…
Big opportunity after Brexit, says REAF Brexit could provide the opportunity to increase UK vessel quota catches in the southern North Sea by seven times their value, and UK vessel non-quota catches by 25%, reports Tim Oliver That would add…
‘Resist changes to quota system’ says SW operator Threat to investment at a difficult time A leading South West vessel operator says that moves to challenge the existing quota allocation system are wrong and should be opposed, because they would…
Realistic UK quota shares answer to discards Industry leaders message to Lords committee The best way to cope with quota shortages that threaten to create choke species is to revisit relative stability and change the current quota shares that the…
Quota pools set up to cut discarding Government-held fish will save fishermen’s quotas Fisheries administrations are setting up reserve quota pools to try to avoid choke species tying up boats as the discards ban comes fully into force, and to…
