29 arrivals for the period. Whitefish totalled 12,800 boxesfrom four Scottish trawl landings, seventeen Anglo Spanish long liners and three Anglo-Spanish gill netters. The Scottish trawlers have returned to Rockall for haddocks and hopefully before long squid will make an appearance as the water warms up. The Anglo fleet are enjoying very productive fishing of […]
Read More28 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 7,800 boxes from four Scottish trawl landings, four Anglo-Spanish gill net landings and two Anglo-Spanish long liners. The seasonal Rockall haddock fishery has come to an end; the fish are in poor condition having completed their annual spawning. The Scottish boats have returned to their traditional North Sea […]
Read More47 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 23,500 boxes from sixteen Scottish trawlers and thirteen Anglo-Spanish liners/netters. Rockall continues to produce excellent catches of quality haddock and monkfish which are commanding top prices at Scottish markets. The Anglo- fleet fishing for hake, ling and monkfish have started to head south to fish closer to home […]
Read More46 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 14,500 boxes from eleven Scottish trawlers, nine Anglo-Spanish long liners and one Anglo-Spanish netter. The seasonal Rockall haddock fishery is now in full swing with a number of trawlers fishing both on the bank and in deeper water. Boats are reporting reasonably steady fishing of quality haddocks with […]
Read More27 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 2,000 boxes from two Scottish trawl landings and three Anglo-Spanish liners. The Banff-registered Endeavour IV and the Venture III, both owned and run by the Lovie family from Whitehills, landed shots of monkfish, ling and cod from the Shelf Edge. The majority of the Anglo-Spanish fleet continue to […]
Read More34 Arrivals for the Period Whitefish totalled 5,500 boxes from four Scottish trawl landings and eight Anglo-Spanish liner/netters. The Inverness-registered Adventurer returned to work on 27 December and landed three lorryloads of monkfish, ling and haddocks for the New Year trip; they followed this up with two further landings of quality groundfish from the Shelf […]
Read More31 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 7800 boxes from eight Scottish trawlers and seven Anglo-Spanish long liners. The Inverness-registered Adventurer made four landings of mainly monkfish and haddocks from Rockall; the boat then headed northwest to fish the shelf edge for the winter months. The Banff-registered Genesis landed twice from the shelf edge, monkfish […]
Read More14 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 700 boxes from a single Scottish twin rig trawler – the Inverness- registered Adventurer which continues to work at Rockall (pictured) despite occasional appalling weather. Shellfish landings consisted of the regular weekly offshore crabber Our Hazel and several visits from the recently purchased and Kinlochbervie-owned prawn trawler Olivia […]
Read More26 arrivals for the period Whitefish landing totalled 1600 boxes from one Scottish trawler and 2 Anglo Spanish liners, quiet times as the fleet continue to fish further north. Shellfish effort was mainly crab landings from the offshore creeler Our Hazel, plus a couple of prawn landings from local waters and the efforts of the […]
Read More24 arrivals for the period Whitefish landings totalled 1200 boxes from one Scottish trawler and one Spanish liner. As ever at this time of the year the whitefish sector is very quiet with both the Scottish and Anglo- Spanish vessels fishing and landing further to the north and east. Shellfish effort was steady with eight […]
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