Serene a milestone for Danish yard
The order for Serene Fishing Co, placed at the Skipper Expo Aberdeen, marks a milestone for Karstensen Shipyard, as this represents the yard’s first newbuilding for Shetland owners.
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The order for Serene Fishing Co, placed at the Skipper Expo Aberdeen, marks a milestone for Karstensen Shipyard, as this represents the yard’s first newbuilding for Shetland owners.
Bobby Polson and the owners of the Shetland pelagic vessel Serene have placed an order for a new vessel.
The Skipper Expo in Aberdeen got off to a flying start yesterday, the largest Skipper exhibition in Aberdeen to date. The Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre buzzed with activity, buoyed up by a vocal Fishing for Leave and a meeting attended by Fisheries Minister George Eustice.
A record-breaking number of exhibitors are taking part in this year’s Skipper Expo in Aberdeen, which opens tomorrow and takes place over Friday and Saturday.
IFCAs, the bodies responsible for administering inshore fisheries in England are increasingly risking becoming hamstrung, warns the National Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. According to the findings of a meeting of the NFFO West Coast Committee meeting held in Carnforth, the IFCAs increasingly lack of fishing industry representatives on their committees and the appointments process is in need of overhaul in order to be more conducive to fostering positive industry engagement in the management of local fisheries.
A pioneering ethical fishmonger business helping to support local fishermen has opened its first hub in Plymouth. Sole of Discretion is launched at Plymouth Fisheries, the second largest fresh fish market in England based within a large, purpose-built complex in Sutton Harbour.
Icelandic seafood company Icelandic Group has come under the spotlight for its alleged attempts to circumvent new UK minimum wage requirements by reducing overtime rates.
The gulf between commercial and leisure fishing has never been wider. The angling lobby in the UK was deeply involved in pushing for strict regulation of the bass fishery in particular and now finds itself under the same regulatory spotlight as the commercial fishermen.
It’s red and it’s steel, breaking with the Stevens family tradition of wooden boats and black paint. But David Stevens senior agreed that times are changing and steel is the way to go now that the skills needed to maintain a wooden boat are becoming increasingly rare, and they decided to stick with the boat’s original red.
Dutch based global certification services provider Control Union has acquired a minority shareholding in MacAlister Elliott & Partners Ltd (MEP) and ME Certification Ltd (MEC).
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