Kirkella aims to take Flemish Cap quota in one trip
The UK’s last remaining distant waters trawler, the 81-metre Kirkella operated by UK Fisheries, is fishing on Flemish Cap, providing a British presence on these fishing grounds for the first…
The Flemish Cap northern shrimp fishery, closed since 2011, is to be re-opened. Image: NOAA
Flemish Cap northern shrimp fishery re-opens
Following a nine-year moratorium, the condition of the northern shrimp stock on Flemish Cap is judged to have improved with an increase in biomass over the last five years. As…
