ANNONCER
The NFFO’s Executive Committee travelled to Northern Ireland this week, where they were hosted by the Anglo-North Irish Fish Producers Organisation.
The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has unveiled its mini-manifesto for the
Fishing 2010 in Glasgow, which is being staged from 20-22 May, looks set to be one of the best ever UK fishing exhibitions with the new organisers keen to attract as many fishermen as possible from Ireland.
Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group (SSMG) has produce rope grown mussels, first farmed seafood in the UK to get FoS certificate.
UK is said to create the world’s largest marine reserve by banning fishing around the UK owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
Bridlington’s shellfishing fleet is sacrificing more than 30 square miles of prime lobster fishing territory.
Shoreham Port’s Dry Dock is ready to get a new life for the first time in over 75 years, says a report.
Ian Gatt, the president of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, will be joining the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association in early April as its new chief executive. He will replace Derek Duthie, who is moving to the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation to become its new director of administration & finance.
Cefas is running a pilot project investigating the use of catch quotas to reduce discards in the North Sea. Cefas fisheries observers and Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) equipment, including CCTV, will be used to document and quantify the effectiveness of the catch quota system at reducing discards.
The NFFO has written to the Fisheries Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies,