Fish Prices Lands For Scotland
At the start of last week Peterhead Fish Market was busy,after several trawlers had their first trips for a few weeks due to bad weather conditions.
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At the start of last week Peterhead Fish Market was busy,after several trawlers had their first trips for a few weeks due to bad weather conditions.
The Bay fish and chip shop in Stonehaven is, this week, the first UK fish and chip shop to offer its customers MSC certified sustainable Scottish haddock. Although other fish and chips shops have started frying MSC certified South Africa hake, The Bay is the first to use the recently certified Scottish haddock. The certified sustainable haddock and chips are easily identified on the shop’s menus by the blue MSC ecolabel next to each item.
Grimsby fish market is to get a £1.2m upgrade after European grant funding for the improvements was approved.
The Scottish Government is bringing together some key opinion formers in the EU to highlight Scotland’s vision for sustainable fishing, at an event in Brussels tomorrow (March 15).
The NFFO, member of the MPA Fishing Coalition, is calling for an urgent rethink on reference areas, which are intended to form part of the network of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) currently under planning in English waters.
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has decided to extend the deadline for applications to this trial in response to industry feedback and queries. Please note that this revised deadline is final.
Scottish fishermen are hoping that the deadlock over mackerel catching arrangements in the international north-east Atlantic fishery will be finally resolved at a three day Coastal States meeting in Oslo that begins tomorrow (9 March).
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has decided to extend the deadline to sign up for sole discard reduction trial.
The fishing fleet returned to sea last week after an area of high pressure built up after the previous weeks severe south easterly gales that hit Scotland. Peterhead had the biggest opening markets for over four weeks at the start of last week Monday and Tuesday with over 9,000 boxes of whitefish sold.
English fishermen are ready to apply for the European Fisheries Fund innovation Fund scheme.
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