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Report On Future OF Northern Ireland’s Fishing Industry Published
Northern Ireland's Fisheries Minister Edwin Poots MLA has today published the first stage of a report examining the opportunities to develop the fishing and seafood sector in NI. The Fishing and Seafood Development Programme is a strategic programme of work...
Fishermen’s lives placed in danger by Greenpeace stunt
Greenpeace is dropping granite boulders into the North Sea, in a stunt designed to prevent fishing vessels trawling . The environmental charity says it wants to stop the practice of “bottom trawling” in the marine protected area...
Processors call for review of Seafish and Seafood Scotland remits
Scotland’s seafood processors are demanding an urgent review into the role of the government-supported industry bodies Seafish and Seafood Scotland. According to the Scottish Seafood Association (SSA), which represents processors, Seafish has become remote to many in...
UK: COVID-19 Impacts Across Whole Seafood Supply Chain
The first in a series of regular COVID-19 impact assessments, Seafish has published a review showing how the impacts of COVID-19 have been felt across the whole of the seafood supply chain in the UK. With the objective at helping seafood businesses, organisations and...
First Yorkshire Marine Research Centre Opens in Bridlington
This week, Holderness Fishing Industry Group (HFIG) has opened a state-of-the-art community laboratory and research hatchery in Bridlington to conduct vital research on fishing grounds in the North Sea. The Yorkshire Marine Research Centre’s build was implemented by...
UK: Vessel owners asked to share impacts of COVID-19
Fishing vessel owners across UK are being asked to take part in a major survey of the fishing fleet, and as part of that they are being asked to share the impacts COVID-19 has had on their operations. Seafish will contact all owners of UK registered vessels to invite...
‘Calm before the storm’ for UK fleet: Economic estimates 2019
Providing a picture of how the fleet was positioned just before the global pandemic hit, the first economic performance estimates for the UK fishing fleet in 2019 have been published today by Seafish. Based on preliminary landings data for 2019 world and the results...
First fish landed at new state-of-the-art Lerwick fish market
by Hans Marter, Shetland News AS THE first fish was landed at Lerwick’s new fish market this morning (Wednesday, August 5), an industry leader hailed the new market at Mair’s Quay as a “tangible sign” of where the sector is heading after Brexit. Local trawler Sedulous...
Marliona incident a ‘dangerous disregard for Irish sovereignty’
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence John Brady has expressed his anger at the revelation that a Killybegs-registered trawler, the Marliona, was confronted by a British Navy vessel last week and ordered away from a fishing area off the Donegal coast....
Scotland: New App to helps skippers avoid chokes now available
The latest version of an app co-designed by Scottish skippers to assist them in avoiding high catches of unwanted “choke” species is now available online. A demo version of the app, along with details about the pilot project underway on the west coast of Scotland, is...
Suspension of scallop fishing in parts of the North Sea
Scallop fishing in the North Sea around Dogger Bank will be suspended for four weeks from Sunday 12 July to Saturday 8 August to enable data gathering about the state of the shellfish stock. Following a call for evidence, and engaging with the scallop industry, the...
New UK Fishing Vessel Certifying Authority appointed by MCA
The Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) has appointed a new Fishing Vessel Certifying Authority for commercially registered fishing vessels in the UK. The Society of Consulting Marine Engineers and Ship Surveyors (SCMS) will launch the new service in July and is excited...
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