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A Norwegian fishing trawler the Storeknut was the first mid water fishing trawler to land a cache of blue whiting at Peterhead Harbour , Scotland’s premier fishing port last week.
European seafood exposition will now have seafood companies from North Wales to show their products.
More than £1.9 million European funding has been approved to boost English fishing industry.
More than £1.9 million European funding has been approved for the English fishing industry during March 2011. A total of 16 projects could benefit from the money, made available through the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) and Marine Management Organisation (MMO).
Moderate fish landings ensured good prices on the first two markets of last week Monday/ Tuesday March 21-22 at Peterhead Scotland’s premier fishing port when 6073 boxes of white fish were landed.
An RAF Rescue Helicopter and a Lifeboat help rescue three trawlermen from a fishing trawler which had caught fire off the Northumberland coast.
The wooden trawler. Green Pastures, BH 156, was 24 miles (39km) from Amble when the coastguard’s received a mayday radio call at 1057GMT today Saturday.
An inquiry into the triple drowning on the Aquila scallop dredger was halted after a claim that MCA has only supplied hearing with ‘edited highlights’ of phone-call recordings.
The crew of the Margate Lifeboat provided assistance to a Belgian fishing trawler that ran aground on a sandbank off the North coast of Kent with fears at one stage its crew would have be taken off.
The European Fisheries Fund programme has selected sixty five fishing industry projects across Scotland to be awarded £4.46 million.
Whitefish landings in Scotland are highest value for 10 years.
Scottish Fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead commented on the 2010 figures.