64 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 12,000 boxes from eight Scottish trawlers, four Anglo long-liners and one Anglo freezer netter. A handful of Scottish boats are chancing their luck between the storms working at Rockall and the shelf edge. Fishing has been good with haddock and monkfish the target species. The Anglo liners continue […]
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Read More29 Aug – 26 Sep 2023, 55 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 4,900 boxes from three Scottish trawl, one Anglo long-liner and one Anglo freezer netter. The Banff registered Audacious made two landings of mixed fish from Rockall before heading east for a few weeks on the slipway. The Inverness registered Adventurer returned from […]
Read More36 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 3,700 boxes from two Scottish trawl and a single Anglo longline landing. A couple of Scottish boats have returned to Rockall looking to use up the remainder of their monkfish and haddock quotas before the winter. Fishing has been patchy with loads of small haddock evident but not […]
Read More67 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 11,100 boxes from nine Scottish trawl and seven Anglo longline landings. The Scottish effort is all but over at Rockall and only a couple of boats remain fishing for haddocks on the bank. The Anglo fleet continues to fish north and west of the Butt of Lewis for […]
Read More52 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 7,600 boxes from six Scottish trawl and seven Anglo longline landings. The Scottish effort west has dwindled with the boats either returning home for their summer refits or the lack of monkfish quota has forced them to change grounds. As yet there is no sign of squid returning […]
Read More82 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 18,600 boxes from fourteen Scottish trawl and eighteen Anglo longline landings. The Scottish effort is down to six vessels fishing Rockall and landing mixed catches of haddock, cod and monkfish every 8-10 days. Having fully recovered from spring spawning, the haddock are congregating in shallower water (< 200m) […]
Read More69 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 30,050 boxes from twenty-three Scottish trawl and sixteen Anglo longline landings. Rockall haddock remains the target species for many Scottish trawlers who report that the post-spawning fish are fattening up once again. In the coming weeks many of the Scottish boats will head back east for their summer […]
Read More94 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 49,400 boxes from thirty-five Scottish trawl, sixteen Anglo longline and two Anglo freezer netters. Scottish effort continues at Rockall with a fleet of around seventeen vessels concentrating on the seasonal haddock fishery and landing in Ullapool every ten days or so. The fish have now spawned and as […]
Read More82 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 29,800 boxes from seventeen Scottish trawl, six Anglo longline and three Anglo freezer netters. Scottish effort is centred round the seasonal Rockall haddock fishery with a fleet of vessels heading west to try their luck. Early indications are positive with vessels reporting reasonable returns for their efforts. The […]
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