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The NFFO has raised the issue of bass with Fisheries Minister George Eustice. At a meeting this week, the NFFO highlighted the unnecessary rigidity of the rules for gillnetters, as well as spelling out the consequences – the discarding of valuable bycatch.
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (NFFO) has written urgently to UK Fisheries Minister George Eustice calling for an appeals process to be put in place for those vessels excluded from the bass fishery.
NFFO President and Selsey fisherman Tony Delahunty has been appointed to the Board of the Marine Management Organisation.
A new pilot training course for fishermen aimed at preventing man overboard incidents and improving survival and recovery procedures has been completed at the RNLI’s Training College in Poole, Dorset.
The English-based Skipper Expo that started life in Bristol before shifting to Bournemouth is now heading back this year.
Commenting on the claim by WWF Scotland that the discard ban is being inadequately policed, SFF chief executive Bertie Armstrong commented that no-one hates discarding more than fishermen.
The remote south Atlantic island of St Helena is about to establish the UK’s first one-by-one only tuna fishery in a vast marine zone that bans all forms of destructive fishing gear and only permits tuna to be caught one fish at a time.
The Viola Trust, set up to manage the return and restoration of the steam trawler Viola from South Georgia, now has the necessary permissions to remove the abandoned trawler from its position at the former whaling station at Grytviken. The venture is feasible, but this would have to happen soon.
Kingfisher Fish and Chips in Plympton, Plymouth has been crowned the best fish and chip shop in the UK today after frying out on top at the 2017 National Fish & Chip Awards, organised by Seafish.
Three previously unemployed people are now in full-time work thanks to the Passport to Processing initiative that was created to provide a gateway for careers in seafood processing in the north-east of Scotland.