sprats

  • Sprats make strong recovery in Clyde

    Sprats make strong recovery in Clyde

    18th August 2021

    Researchers at Aberdeen University say that sprats have recovered strongly in the Clyde. They say the biomass is now four times higher than it was in the late 1980s, and sprats are now ‘highly dominant over the historically more abundant…

  • Caralisa and Rebecca Jeneen: Pair-trawling for West Highland sprats

    Caralisa and Rebecca Jeneen: Pair-trawling for West Highland sprats

    20th November 2020

    The first sprats from the traditional localised niche fishery were landed at Mallaig earlier this month. David Linkie looks back to a night aboard skipper Robert Summers’ Rebecca Jeneen in December 2012, pair-trawling for sprats with Willie John McLean’s Caralisa…

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