63 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled a staggering 35,000 boxes from nineteen Scottish trawl landings, six Anglo long-line vessels and four Anglo deep-water freezer netters. The Scottish trawl fleet has had a fruitful time fishing for haddocks at Rockall with full boats landing every 8-10 days. The fish are due to spawn soon which […]
Read More40 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 11,000 boxes from nine Scottish trawlers, a Shetland seine netter, six Anglo Spanish long-liners and a single landing from a freezer netter. The Rockall haddock fishery is now in full swing with a fleet of boats working on the bank catching cod, haddock, saithe and monkfish. The Rockall […]
Read More44 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 7,400 boxes from five Scottish trawl and five Anglo Spanish long-line landings. The Scottish trawlers continue to concentrate their efforts at Rockall where they’re fishing for haddock and monkfish with mixed results; mainly caused by the stormy weather. The Anglo fleet remains largely in the north; a few […]
Read More36 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 8,800 boxes from nine Scottish trawl and one Anglo-Spanish long-line landing. The Scottish trawlers are mainly fishing along the shelf edge from St Kilda to north of the Butt of Lewis for monkfish and deepwater species. These boats tend to fish at depths ranging from 200-800 metres catching […]
Read More37 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 8,000 boxes from six Scottish trawl and seven Anglo-Spanish long-line landings. The Scottish fleet has benefited from excellent squid and monk fishing along the shelf edge in recent months with boats landing high value shots of fish weekly. In the last couple of weeks the squid stock has […]
Read More27 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 2,600 boxes from four Scottish trawl landings. The Inverness-registered Adventurer II made three landings of quality monkfish, cod, haddock and squid. The Banff- registered Endeavour IV landed a big shot of quality species from the same grounds. For the past six weeks, boats have been enjoying rich pickings […]
Read More22 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 4,200 from three Scottish trawl and six Anglo Spanish long-line landings. The Inverness registered Adventurer II continues to land very good shots of mixed groundfish weekly with squid and monkfish the main components. The Anglo fleet are still working north and landing into Shetland with a handful of […]
Read More29 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 7,700 boxes from five Scottish trawl landings, one Anglo-Spanish long-liner and a Spanish freezer netter. The Peterhead-registered Atlantic Challenge continues to fish at Rockall landing boat loads of haddock and saithe. Due to the poor forecast, the boat returned to the east coast this week. The Inverness-registered Adventurer […]
Read More19 Arrivals for the Period Whitefish totalled 5000 boxes from one Anglo-Spanish liner and five Scottish trawl landings. The Anglo fleet are still working west of Shetland with only the long-liner Meaban landing here before tying up for a two week break. The Peterhead-registered 40m twin rig trawler Atlantic Challenge has had two very successful […]
Read More25 Arrivals for the Period Whitefish totalled 6100 boxes from one Anglo-Spanish liner and five Scottish trawl landings. The Anglo fleet continues to work north with the occasional vessel working west of the Butt where the fishing remains poor. Despite the weather, the Scottish trawlers Adventurer and Atlantic Challenge are still going west to Rockall […]
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