The following selection of recent photographs illustrate the high levels of activity and diversity characteristic of fishing in Shetland The whitefish trawler Venture goes into a trough of a decaying swell, when returning to fishing grounds on the west side…
Skippers David Gatt and Barry Reid and the crew quickly started to confirm the capabilities of the versatile new 27.8m whitefish boat Audacious BF 83, by landing 2,000 boxes of whitefish at Peterhead from back-to-back pair-seining trips in just over…
Fraserburgh drydock meets the requirements of larger classes of fishing vessels and supply boats. Early 16th century Sir William Fraser, sixth laird of Philorth, purchased the lands of Faithlie. 1542 Alexander Fraser, seventh laird of Philorth, received from King James…
Scottish stocks up and mortality down – SSBs ‘at record levels’ says Shetland report Key whitefish stocks in Scottish waters have expanded dramatically over the past decade, and fishing effort is at record lows, according to a major new analysis, reports…
The skippers and crew of Guiding Light H 90 quickly started to establish the fishing credentials of the new whitefish vessel by landing a 1,290-box maiden trip at Peterhead last week, after pair-seining with Guiding Star H 360 on the…
Next month will herald the dawn of a new era at Peterhead, when the port’s 10,000-box whitefish market, built as part of the £53m North Harbour development, is used for the first time. David Linkie reports Faithlie is one of…
A completely new design of 34.5m fly-shooter/twin-rig trawler, featuring electric deck machinery, is to be built by Thecla Bodewes Shipyards, Harlingen, for Katwijk owner Maarten van Duijn. Designed in conjunction with Ove Kristensen of Vestværftet ApS to combine high speeds…
John Addison looks back to the end of an era in the 1960s that saw the last of the highly successful dual-purpose boats built in northeast Scotland, that alternated between drift-netting for herring and seine-netting for whitefish. Above: The Fraserburgh boat…
Severe north-westerly gales in the middle of last week skewed whitefish landings at Peterhead, where over half of the weekly total of 26,410 boxes were landed before sea conditions rapidly deteriorated, reports David Linkie. Eight boats, Challenge, Farnella, Tranquility, Carina,…
The extent to which spawning stock biomasses of most whitefish in Scottish waters have increased since the mid-2000s (at the same time as fishing mortality rates have declined), is vividly documented in the new report: ‘Trends in Scottish Fish Stocks…
