This week in Fishing News you will find: – Anger at megatrawlers – Royal visit marks opening at Peterhead – New Lerwick fishmarket rapidly taking shape – Anger at advice for 42% mackerel cut – Feature: Whitby netsman continues traditional way…
A unique opportunity has arisen within the Authority’s offshore team, based in Whitby, North Yorkshire. North Eastern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority is seeking to recruit a First Mate/Fishery Officer to support its seagoing operations. If successful you would become…
While incorporating a series of innovative features and significant firsts, the 20.3m scalloper Summer Rose OB 141, built by Parkol Marine Engineering of Whitby for the Star Fishing Company Ltd, is based on well-established and mutually beneficial business associations which…
Sparkling Star is scheduled to run engine and fishing trials later this month from Whitby, before heading north to start twin-rig trawling from Kinlochbervie. Above: Sparkling Star is scheduled to run trials later this month before heading home to Kinlochbervie. (Photo:…
Whitby skipper James Locker and the crew of the new 26m whitefish vessel Victory Rose WY 34 were fishing their first trip this week in the North Sea pairing-seining with the almost identical Our Lass III WY 261, reports David…
This mainly pictorial feature, using a selection of photographs taken in a 36-hour period last month, gives an insight into fishing activity at Bridlington, Scarborough and Whitby. David Linkie reports. Above: Potting boats berthed along the fishmarket quay at Whitby. With…
Three Whitby potters lost valuable fishing gear and time last week, after several fleets of static gear, clearly marked in a traditional crabbing area, were towed away by a visiting scalloper, reports David Linkie. Skippers Adrian Noble (Olivia Rose WY…
Established in 2002 with the help of a DEFRA grant, Whitby and District Fishing Industry Training School (WDFITS) held its 13th Annual General Meeting and Apprentice of the Year Award ceremony last month, reports David Linkie. Above: Jake Sixsmith is joined by…
