ANNONCER
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).
The UK Coastguard is co-ordinating a search for a crewman lost overboard from a fishing vessel this morning.
A new inquiry into the sinking of a French trawler off the coast of Cornwall in 2004 is needed to resolve the mystery surrounding the vessel’s unexplained loss and the deaths of the five crew.
Responding to grassroots concerns from the quayside, the NFFO has joined forces with the MMO, IFCAs and the wider stakeholder community to get the message out to restaurants, shops and consumers that the trade in fish caught by unlicensed vessels is not a victimless crime.
A Scottish pelagic vessel is now on its way to Korea to be refitted for crabbing, while retaining its pelagic trawl and purse seine capacity.
An appeal has been launched following the loss of the crabber Louisa off the Western Isles at the weekend in which three crewmen lost their lives and one was rescued after swimming for the shore.
The UK Oil and Gas Authority has released seismic data for the Rockall Trough and mid-North Sea High areas acquired during a £20 million Government-funded seismic survey carried out last year.
The Marine Management Organisation has announced that a series of local events will be held across England as part of public consultation for the next phase of marine planning.