Skipper Andrew ‘Watty’ Watt berthed the 18.8m Osprey WK 4 in its home port of Scrabster last weekend at the end of a 285-mile delivery passage from Whitby, just three weeks after the vivier-crabber was launched into the river Esk,…
Featuring a new concept of bulbous bow and an aft bagging arrangement designed to enhance fishing efficiency, crew comfort and safety, the 24m twin-rig prawn trawler Virtuous FR 253 significantly advances the parameters of divergent thinking on vessel design, reports…
– Pulse ban challenge – MMO increases enforcement capabilities – Brexit delayed – again – Whitby Commercial Fishermen’s Association formed – £15.4m funding boost for English industry – TAC cuts planned for 40 stocks – Concerns of N Ireland…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Frida-Lee WY 779 LOA: 11.86m Built: Birkenhead Precision Engineering 1983 Type: Beam scalloper Home port: Whitby We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got…
This week in Fishing News you will find: – ‘No CFP exit delay’ call – Fruitful Bough launched at Whitby – Kilkeel ‘Cookery School of the Year’ – New fisheries minister visits Peterhead – Scallop conference shows way ahead –…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Uberous FR 50 LOA: 23.95m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering Whitby 2018 Type: Twin-rig trawler Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus.…
The achievements of young fishermen were applauded recently when Whitby and District Fishing Industry Training School (WDFITS) held its 16th Annual General Meeting and Apprentice of the Year award ceremony, reports David Linkie. Introducing the awards presentation, WDFITS director Andrew…
Fraserburgh skipper Ian Duthie berthed the new twin-rig trawler Uberous FR 50 in his home port for the first time earlier this month, just a few days after running fishing trials from Whitby, reports David Linkie After completing the 200nm…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Summer Rose OB 141 LOA: 20.3m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering Whitby 2018 Type: Scalloper Home port: Oban We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus.…
Passion and vigilance, allied to a lifetime’s experience and local knowledge of tidal trigonometry, delivers a return The salmon drift-net fishery has sustained fishermen and their families along the coast of northeast England for generations. Whitby skipper Martin Hopper is…
