Land: UK

Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has responded to the result of North Sea conference on fisheries management.

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has warned EC Fisheries Commissioner that Scottish whitefish fleet is close to breaking point.

Eight new members have joined the MSC’s Stakeholder Council and preparing for two-day meeting in Washington DC.

North East of Scotland fish producers and processors are warning that a crisis in the white fish industry is about to wreak catastrophic damage on business and jobs.
Peterhead and Fraserburgh Fish Producers Association fears up to 60% of its members could go to the wall by Christmas because of a severe shortage of supplies.

With gales which severely disrupted the fishing for the last week resulted in high prices being paid for reduced quantities of whitefish at Peterhead fish market.

At this Monday’s (27 September) AgriFish Council meeting in Brussels, Scottish fishermen will be pressing the European Commission to give a clear signal of intent that strong action will be taken against Iceland and the Faroes if the two countries fail to reach an acceptable deal on international mackerel quotas next month.

Several trawlers were landing shots of round haddock on Tuesday

A Shetland fishing trawler , with a crew of Three on board, tackled an engine room fire 40 miles North east of Shetland late on Saturday night September 18.

Sea Fisheries Statistics published today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician show the value of landings by Scottish based vessels in 2009 was £443 million. This is the highest value for landings in real terms in the decade.

The figures show that 378 thousand tonnes of fish were landed by Scottish vessels in 2009.

MSC is ready to follow new initiatives to enhance the qualitu and consistency of fishery assessment.