scotland

  • Economic link regulations increase Scottish pelagic fish landings

    Economic link regulations increase Scottish pelagic fish landings

    22nd August 2024

    Revisions to the economic link conditions saw increased landings of mackerel and herring by Scottish-registered pelagic vessels into Scotland in 2023, with more than 50% of their tonnage landed into Scotland. The new conditions introduced on 1 January, 2023 cover…

  • New rules on Brexit quota share-out for Scotland

    New rules on Brexit quota share-out for Scotland

    18th June 2024

    The Scottish government has set out how it intends to allocate the additional quota Scotland has received as a result of Brexit. This follows a consultation that ran from November 2023 to January 2024, which offered seven different options for…

  • ‘Disappointed’: No appeal against Scottish economic link ruling

    ‘Disappointed’: No appeal against Scottish economic link ruling

    24th April 2024

    The two Scottish POs that lost their legal challenge to the Scottish government’s new economic link conditions, requiring Scottish vessels to land 55% of their catches in Scotland by 2025, have confirmed they will not appeal against the decision. The…

  • Brexit ‘has hit seafood exports to EU’

    Brexit ‘has hit seafood exports to EU’

    15th April 2024

    Brexit has added ‘considerable’ burdens for Scottish seafood traders, and while trade with the EU is manageable, it is ‘sub-optimal’ at present, according to Seafood Scotland. It says there are a number of additional trade barriers which hampered trade ‘significantly’…

  • Slow start to 2024 for many Scottish catchers and processors

    Slow start to 2024 for many Scottish catchers and processors

    8th April 2024

    Scottish industry leaders have reported a challenging start to the year for some parts of the catching and processing sectors, with fishing hit by bad weather in January and February and demand and prices affected by the high cost of…

  • Trawling and dredging case back in court

    Trawling and dredging case back in court

    27th March 2024

    An appeal by the Scottish government against the 2023 ruling that its failure to ban trawling and scalloping was in contravention of Scotland’s National Marine Plan, which sets out steps to protect the marine environment, was heard in Scotland’s highest…

  • Scottish economic link licence challenge rejected

    Scottish economic link licence challenge rejected

    26th March 2024

    The legal challenge to the new economic link licence conditions by part of the Scottish pelagic fleet was rejected by judges in the Scottish Court of Session last week. The conditions were amended from 1 January, 2023, with a requirement…

  • Agreement close on Faroe deal

    Agreement close on Faroe deal

    6th March 2024

    UK and Faroe negotiators were continuing to work on a fisheries deal for 2024 last week, and agreement was understood to be ‘imminent’. About 12 of the larger boats in the Scottish whitefish fleet work at Faroe at various times…

  • Watershed project on fishing crew welfare

    Watershed project on fishing crew welfare

    17th January 2024

    A ground-breaking pilot project is being set up in Scotland to protect the welfare of fishing vessel crews and provide them with a route for formal grievance procedures. The new Worker-Driven Social Responsibility (WSR) programme for UK fishing is the…

  • Scots quota consultation to close next week

    Scots quota consultation to close next week

    2nd January 2024

    The Scottish government consultation on the share-out of additional quota received by the UK post-Brexit, which opened in October, closes on 11 January. The consultation sets out a number of possible allocation mechanisms for the quota, which is the Scottish…

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