Fishing Reports News

THE Scottish public would support restrictions on commercial fishing if it was necessary to protect marine ecology, a new survey has revealed.
The poll was commissioned by the Wildlife Trust to examine public attitudes to our coastal waters. It found that a majority of Scots questioned - 87 per cent - placed the […]

THE European Commission today adopted a Commission Regulation which provides for the reduction of certain fishing quotas for the UK and Ireland over the period 2007 to 2012. This is in response to overfishing of herring and mackerel quotas during the period 2001 to 2005 and is expected to have “big […]

A fishing trawler which was seized by the Marine Police caught fire while it was being towed to Old Goa jetty. Three fire brigades were fighting the fire from two ferry-boats  for three hours till 11.30 pm.
Eearlier, a  team of the Goa Marine Police seized a Kerala- registered fishing trawler moving […]

THE Shetland Fishermen’s Association has today written to Asda to challenge their decision to stop stocking UK sourced monkfish and have invited them up to Shetland to meet some of the fishermen who catch the fish and one of the foremost scientific experts on monkfish who works at the North Atlantic […]

Nigerian Trawler Owners Association (NITOA) has re-iterated its call to the Federal Government to save the Nigerian fishing trawlers from pirates that has made them lose above $60million foreign exchange in recent time.
The National President of the Nigerian Trawler Owners Association, Manjit Sadrangani, made this appeal when the body had a […]