62 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 11,500 boxes from 5 Scottish trawlers and 20 Anglo Spanish liner/netter landings. The Scottish fleet has spent the past two months unsuccessfully looking for squid at Rockall. With haddock and monkfish quotas now exhausted the fleet has returned to the North Sea for the remainder of the year. […]
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30 June 2015 Ullapool Harbour Trust allocates up to 2% of gross profit to stakeholder initiatives annually. (Historically funding applications were infrequent; more often than not requests were granted, some in full, some part-funded). More recently the number of funding and assistance requests has increased to a level that requires a more structured application […]
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39 Arrivals for the Period Whitefish totalled 6400 boxes from seven Anglo Spanish liners and five Scottish trawlers. The Anglo fleet continue to fish very well with boats landing big hauls of hake and ling weekly. Scottish effort has returned to Rockall with a few vessels looking to exploit the summer squid fishery. As yet […]
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35 Arrivals for the Period Whitefish totalled 4600 boxes from 16 Anglo Spanish liners and 1 Scottish trawler. Quiet times continue with the Scottish fleet continuing to fish east and north. Hopefully now that summer has ‘arrived’ boats will start heading back to Rockall to look for squid and haddocks. Tragic news last week when […]
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36 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 4800 boxes from 13 Anglo Spanish liners and 1 Scottish trawler. Quiet times continue as some of the Spanish fleet return home for a break and the Scottish effort centres on North Sea grounds. The shellfish sector has also been fairly quiet with prawns very scarce as […]
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A capacity crowd of over 300 attended the launch of Feis Rois’s latest CD, The Voyage of the Hector, on Saturday night in the new ferry terminal building. It was a privilege to host such an incredible and moving concert performed by 13 supremely talented musicians (6 fiddlers including the acclaimed Cape Breton fiddler Rachel […]
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Ullapool News readers and our Facebook and Twitter friends might remember reading about the Dutch Tall Ship Tecla docked at the harbour a few weeks ago. Tecla called in to drop off local girl Sara Johnson who had sailed over from Holland as part of the crew. Built in 1915 as a herring lugger the Tecla […]
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52 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 18,500 boxes from 17 Anglo Spanish liners, 2 Anglo Spanish freezers, 9 Scottish trawlers and a very rare landing from a Scottish seine netter. The line fishing vessels continue to profit from a period of very settled weather and excellent fishing along the Shelf Edge. The freezer vessels […]
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83 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 10,000 boxes from 31 Anglo Spanish and 5 Scottish landings. The Anglo fleet are enjoying fantastic fishing with boats landing good shots of quality hake weekly. The Scottish fleet of trawlers are starting to look for haddock at both St Kilda and Rockall. The Peterhead pair team […]
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21 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 2750 from 11 Anglo-Spanish landings. The long-line fishing fleet continue to work away despite the awful weather and make very good weekly landings of top quality high value product. Interestingly the Scottish line fleet became a thing of the past when owners changed to seine net and trawl […]
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