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Fishermen from all over the UK are being invited to participate in research trials with the SeaWise stability monitor and play their part in improving safety at sea.
The decline of much of the UK under 10m fleet has escaped much attention in the furore of claim and counter-claim around Britain’s departure from the European Union, according to Jerry Percy of the Coastal PO and director of coastal fishing organisation LIFE Platform.
Construction work on Lerwick Harbour’s replacement whitefish market is scheduled to begin this month in a project that will more than double capacity for landings at the UK´s second largest fishing port. Following competitive tendering, Tulloch Developments Ltd A532;has been appointed main contractor by Lerwick Port Authority, with completion set for early 2020.
The Yorkshire town of Filey is battling to keep fishermen on the water as well as to protect fishing history and a local identity first recorded in the Middle Ages.
Fishermen’s organisations and Producers Organisations from all parts of the UK held a meeting in Manchester to take stock of the state of the ongoing EU exit negotiations, and to agree a broad front to hold the UK government to account on its commitments to the fishing industry.
The latest newbuild from Parkol Marine Engineering has sailed from the Whitby yard for Oban in western Scotland, where it will focus on scallping. Summer Rose was christened at the yard with a traditional naming ceremony led by a minister from the Mission to Seafarers.
Following extensive refurbishment of the Newlyn Fish Market by ProjectLink, phase one is now open and trading, with the first sales taking place in the revamped part of the building last week.
A meeting held this week and attended by nine of the ten top king scallop producers and Producers Organisations with significant scalloping interests resulted in decisions that are expected to have far-reaching and beneficial consequences for the future sustainable management of king scallop stocks, which are a species of key importance to the UK fishing industry.
A pioneering, multi-partner international scientific survey to assess the status and composition of herring stocks to the west of Scotland has found that the area to the west of Melvaig, Wester Ross, holds some importance as a winter/spring spawning ground for herring.
Mike Mitchell, managing director of Fair Seas Limited, and Nathan de Rozarieux, managing director of Tegen Mor Fisheries Consultants Limited, have been appointed to the Seafish board and will serve three year terms. These are Ministerial appointments supported by the four fisheries administrations, who jointly sponsor Seafish.