by Niall Duffy | May 23, 2023 | News, UK
“£650,000 grant funds wasted due to witch hunt by public body.” – James Glover, Managing Director of Maritime Systems The English inshore commercial fishing boat fleet are facing new concerns over regulation and improper use of public funds...
by Niall Duffy | Apr 16, 2023 | News, UK
Scottish fishermen have welcomed the growing coalition of voices opposed to the introduction of Highly Protected Marine Areas on the eve of the closing date of the Scottish Government consultation on the issue. Scottish Fishermen’s Federation chief executive Elspeth...
by Niall Duffy | Apr 5, 2023 | News, UK
The Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group (SPSG) – a seafood industry organisation dedicated to ensuring stock sustainability for mackerel and herring – has criticised the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) latest update to its ‘Good Fish Guide’, which has downgraded...
by Niall Duffy | Mar 23, 2023 | News, UK
The thorny topic of highly protected marine areas (HMPAs) has reached the campaign to find Scotland’s next first minister – with SNP candidate Kate Forbes saying she would scrap the plans as they stand. The MSP is reported as saying that she would prefer to...
by Niall Duffy | Mar 15, 2023 | News, UK
Shetland’s vital seafood industries will be crippled by the introduction of strict new conservation zones where all fishing and aquaculture activity is set to be banned, with hundreds of jobs and millions of pounds of income lost. That is the stark warning made to...
by Niall Duffy | Jan 20, 2023 | News, UK
The panel of independent experts set up to assess the cause of dead and dying crabs washed up on North East UK shores from October 2021 have published their findings The panel, made up of experts from academia and industry, was chaired by Defra’s Chief Scientific...
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