Trinity Seafoods, a new collaboration between three major players in the Scottish seafood sector – Denholm Seafoods, The Don Fishing Company and Seafood Ecosse – plans to create a new, highly automated business that it hopes will allow both UK…
Industry leaders have called for the fishing industry to be given a much higher priority as a vital element in national food security, and for political parties to include a strategy for fisheries in their manifestos ahead of the general…
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’…
Twenty-five years after the last change to its levy – the charge paid to Seafish for the majority of seafish products landed or imported into the UK – the body has published its full response to an informal consultation on…
With the UK Seafood Innovation Fund’s latest research and development projects underway, Fishing News is delving into some of the innovations that the fund has supported. This week: how two different supply chain innovations could help feed the UK’s appetite…
“It’s a mixed reaction from the children to start off with,” Simon Gray, senior associate at The Food Teachers’ Centre, and the driving force behind the Fish in School Hero programme, told Fishing News. The initiative seeks to give secondary…
A successful Tarbert Seafood Festival, held on the shores of Loch Fyne recently, attracted a healthy mixture of tourists and locals, celebrating the best of the Clyde’s fresh seafoods and celebrating the port’s fishing heritage. Jonny Walker and Stacey Cameron…
Share a day in the life of a Brixham fish merchant and restaurant owner, Sean Perkes It’s fair to say that Sean Perkes, of Brixham-based fish merchant Ian Perkes Ltd and restaurant Shoals on the Lido, has well-established roots in…
Cutbacks at Whitby Seafoods add to pressure on prawn fishery A switch to cheaper foods in response to the cost of living crisis is one reason put forward for the announcement by Whitby Seafoods of the start of consultations with…
A seafood trail stretching across Axmouth, Beer, Lyme Regis, West Bay and beyond has been launched by the Lyme Bay Fisherman’s CIC (LBF). The not-for-profit LBF was set up late last year to help support the 50 small-scale fishermen and…
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