New basis for bird food calculation allows threatened fishery to go ahead The Wash cockle fishery, which initially opened on 3 July for a limited five-day fishery with a TAC of 600t (Fishing News, 13 July, ‘Wash cockle fishery reopens…
The Wash cockle fishery opened at 4.45am on Monday, 3 July, but by the time you read this, it will be closed again. That’s because this ‘initial opening’ was only due to run until 1.45am on Saturday, 8 July, and…
A lifelong Thames fisherman and campaigner has called on George Eustice for more research to find out why sole stocks in the Thames have collapsed. Paul Gilson, newly appointed NFFO chairman and chairman of Leigh and Southend Fishermen’s Association, also…
Fishermen in the Wash need to be involved in the management of their fisheries in co-working arrangements with Eastern IFCA, and are ‘in despair’ at what is happening to their industry, DEFRA secretary George Eustice was told last week. There…
The approaching expiry of the Wash Fishery Order has brought the growing disquiet about local fishery management to a head. John Worrall reports… There is a funny smell around the doings of Eastern IFCA. It isn’t the whiff of rotting…
Worfolk boats were built to last – and now another centenarian is being restored. John Worrall reports… Walter ‘Chappie’ Worfolk was a Yorkshire lad. Born, in 1864, in the small village of Stainforth near Doncaster, he was one of several…
Fisheries in the Wash are being squeezed out of existence. John Worrall reports Once upon a time, life was straightforward. The Wash yielded cockles, mussels and shrimps, which fed birds and the fishing communities at the hearts of Boston and King’s Lynn. 1.…
– Big changes ahead in Scotland – Reliance III heads home from Whitby – Second tranche of Covid support for NI fleet – PM defiant: ‘We won’t give in on fisheries’ – Offshore wind farms to take increasing space…
A distinguished old lady has returned to the Wash after a facelift, some fetching changes to her topsides and other surgical reconstruction. John Worrall reports Lynn Princess – or some of her – is 50 years old. Built in Holland,…
As environmental protection exerts the precautionary principle, an age-old fishery is feeling the pinch. John Worrall reports They’ve been shrimping in the Wash since Pontius was a pilot. Long beaches, tidal churn, and four sizeable rivers adding flavoursome effluent (less…
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