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UK Ministers Urged To Resist Campaign For Quota For Foreign Vessel
UK Ministers were today warned against caving in to a concerted campaign to deprive Scottish fishermen of quota in favour of a huge foreign-owned vessel that operates out of a British port. Chief executive of the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association Ian Gatt, and...
Gillnetting Protest Steps Up A Gear With March Through Lerwick
By: Chris Cope/Shetland News CAMPAIGNERS who want to see a ban on the controversial fishing practice of industrial gillnetting took to the streets in Shetland on Saturday in what was their second public protest. The march through Lerwick’s Commercial Street kicked off...
Time For Action On International Mackerel Management
By Ian Gatt, chairman of the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group In the north-east Atlantic, mackerel management is in a state of hiatus with the Faroes, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Russia having all unilaterally increased their mackerel quotas outside any...
Scotland to amend the economic link licence conditions
The Scottish Government has announced amendments to the economic link license condition contained in all Scottish over 10 metre vessel sea fisheries licences. Currently, Scottish vessels landing more than 2 tonnes of species subject to total allowable catch (TACs) are...
Dates announced for further Man Overboard Awareness events
Seafish and the RNLI have announced dates for 10 further Man Overboard (MOB) Awareness events for UK commercial fishermen. The events are taking place at venues across the UK in October, November, and December, with the final sessions taking place in February 2023....
ENDEAVOUR V & VENTURE IV Named At Macduff
On the afternoon of the 9th of September, a special naming ceremony took place on the quays of Macduff harbour celebrating the building of two large new fishing trawlers by the yard, the ENDEAVOUR V and VENTURE IV, for the Scottish fishing fleet. Owned and operated by...
Cornish Fishing Industry Lead The Way For Sustainable Crawfish Fishery
Cornish Fish Producers' Organisation increase the minimum landing size for crawfish to protect stock for future generations The Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation (CFPO) announce the rollout of a new, industry-led, voluntary management measure for the Cornish...
UK Seafood Innovation Fund awards £1.29 million to projects
The UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF) has awarded a further £1.29 million to 28 new projects in its most recent round of funding. The fund, which has supported a total of 94 projects since its inception, supports innovative proposals designed to advance resilience and...
Seafish launches 2022 UK Fishing Fleet Survey
Seafish calls on the UK’s fishing vessel owners and skippers to take part in their annual survey of the UK fishing fleet which will begin in Peterhead, Scotland on Monday 11 July Seafish researchers will be heading to fishing ports around the UK this summer as...
Crowded seas a serious threat to UK fishing industry, warns major new report
More than half of Scottish waters could be closed to fishing fleets by 2050 if the industry continues to be marginalised by the development of offshore renewables and expansion of enhanced marine protected areas. That is the stark warning contained in a major new...
Young Shetland Fishing Crews Hold Out Hope For Government Support
As the cost of marine fuel in Shetland reaches nearly three times the price of last year, young fishing crews in the isles have spoken out about the desperate need for government assistance. The risk of fishing businesses failing is particularly prevalent in the...
Joanna C Sinking – MAIB Report released
Summary Early in the morning on 21 November 2020, the scallop dredger Joanna C capsized south of Newhaven, England; only one of the three crew survived. Joanna C’s crew was hauling the gear when they noticed that the starboard dredge bar had become snagged on a line...
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