PFD scheme deadline extended
Welsh vessel owners have an extra month to apply for discounted Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs).
Welsh vessel owners have an extra month to apply for discounted Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs).
Life Cell Marine Safety is proud to announce that boating industry in the United States has chosen Life Cell as a 2018 Top Product.
Dutch company Pronomar, which specialises in supplying drying systems for work gear, such as oilskins, boots, gloves and other PPE, has seen interest growing in the company’s systems and has been increasingly supplying fishing vessels.
Fishermen from all over the UK are being invited to participate in research trials with the SeaWise stability monitor and play their part in improving safety at sea.
Contrary to the claims of numerous reports that working unsocial hours can result in illness, a new report shows that this doesn’t apply to Faroese fishermen – even though they routinely work 84-hour weeks for three months at a stretch.
During the Seafood Expo Global 2018 taking place from 24-26th of April in Brussels, gathering stakeholders from every corner of the globe, the European Commission will hold an event featuring the importance of food security and the social dimension of fisheries. According to industry body Europêche, with thousands of seafood professionals all together the event provides an ideal platform to get Europe’s message on the three sustainability dimensions of fisheries management across with thousands of seafood professionals all together.
Owners of active, Welsh-registered commercial fishing vessels are urged to take advantage of an opportunity to access grant aid to purchase Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs) with integrated Personal Location Beacons (PLBs) for their crew at a heavily discounted price of £15, saving over £350 per PFD.
Man Overboard Prevention & Recovery Workshop aims to reduce the risk caused by people falling in the water on fishing vessels of all sizes. Fast moving sessions highlight the hard lessons learned from recent fatalities. Viable solutions are simple and effective. All sectors are invited to participate in this unique one day event that is being held at the Grand Harbour, Southampton UK on 17 April 2018.
Fishing into the Future, the South West-based UK charity for sustainable fishing, invites the fishermen of the future to attend its ground-breaking training programme, an Introduction to Sustainable Fishing. This is an all-expenses paid training opportunity for the fishing industry leaders of the future.
George West’s QUIKSLING goes back to his time on the Peterhead pilot boat and an incident when a number of men needed to be rescued quickly from the sea. As a result of that, he developed it as a device for safe recovery of casualties in the water, and this is now in increasingly widespread use with both fishing and oil industry vessels.