Harbour News Whitefish totalled 2200 boxes from 1 Scottish trawler, 2 landings from a Spanish liner and 1 landing from a Spanish freezer. Once again the fishing has been good with vessels reporting decent hauls from all grounds, no more than one would expect given the massive reduction in Scottish effort in recent years. Currently […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 3500 boxes from 1 Scottish trawler, 2 landings from a Spanish liner and 1 landing from a French gill netter. The fishing over the fortnight has been pretty good although severe weather curtailed effort for 24 hours. The shellfish sector had mixed fortunes with the offshore crabbers making good landings whilst […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 1300 boxes from 3 Scottish and 1 Anglo Spanish liner. The Scottish boats are mainly working waters round the Northern Isles and landing east with only a few stragglers still fishing for squid at Rockall. The Anglo fleet are slowly returning from their summer break and again the fishery seems to […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 1500 boxes from 3 Scottish trawlers and 1 Anglo Spanish liner. The Scottish boats continue to fish for squid at Rockall with catches and quality starting to tail off after a period of concerted effort. The harbour received the terrible news that the BF registered twin rig trawler Audacious sprang a […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 2100 boxes from 3 Scottish trawlers and 1 Anglo Spanish liner. The Scottish boats continue to fish for squid at Rockall with good hauls of decent quality fish being made. The majority of the Anglo Spanish fleet has gone home for annual holidays with only the Port of Ayr landing a […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 1900 boxes from 3 Scottish twin rig trawlers and 1 Anglo Spanish liner. The Scottish boats have been targeting the seasonal squid fishery at Rockall with a few boats finding big shoals of fish close to the Rock. The regular lander Ayr Queen put ashore a decent shot of hake before […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 3300 boxes from 2 Scottish trawlers and 5 Anglo Spanish liner / netters. The offshore twin riggers Endeavour and Audacious landed good shots of mixed fish from the Shelf Edge and Rockall respectively The Anglo fleet are starting to return from time off at home, fishing is still holding up with […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 4600 boxes from 5 Anglo Spanish vessels. The Anglo fleet continue to target hake, ling and monkfish along the shelf edge; a large proportion of the Anglo fleet is currently tied up waiting for markets to improve. The Scottish whitefish fleet is working either in the North Sea or around the […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 5400 boxes from 5 Scottish and 7 Anglo Spanish landings. The Scottish fleet continue to scratch out a living at Rockall whilst the Anglo Spanish vessels fish hake and ling along the shelf edge. With some quotas already under threat and prices falling, a number of the Anglo fleet have returned […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 5000 boxes from 2 Scottish trawlers and 7 Anglo Spanish liners. The Scottish fleet continue to hunt for the seasonal Rockall haddock unfortunately to no avail; early indications would suggest that the adult population is well down on previous years. Shellfish landings have been poor across all sectors with the offshore […]
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