This week in Fishing News you will find: – Brexit meltdown – FFL organises Tyneside protest – Ireland ‘committed’ to voisinage restoration – EU e-tracking and reporting for under-12s – Electronic beacons aim to cut gear loss – 24-hour double-tow…
Fishermen and their families, together with volunteers from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and members of the general public, rescued over 5,000 lobsters washed ashore on the Holderness coast by extremely heavy seas associated with the ‘Beast From The East’ and Storm…
From consultation with the Coast Guard, An Garda Síochana, RNLI, and representation of fishermen, it has been decided to organise a co-ordinated sea search from Achill Island (Mayo) to Aranmore Island (Donegal) for missing crew members of rescue helicopter 116…
North Norfolk’s wooden boat heritage lives on, reports John Worrall You don’t sense the passion immediately. At first glance, the Hewitt brothers’ boat yard, accommodated in and around a collection of large sheds just above the marshes at Stiffkey, looks…
The five-man crew of the Milford Haven crabber CKS M 99 were rescued by Angle RNLI volunteers in the early hours of Wednesday 28 October after the 14m crabber hit rocks and began to sink just off Sheep Island, reports…
Dover Coastguard sent the Dungeness lifeboat to aid a 10m French fishing vessel taking on water, 11 miles southeast of Dungeness. Two people were on board the vessel. Once on scene, duty coxswain Roger Gillett, in command of the Shannon…
