34 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 […]
Read More51 arrivals for the period Whitefish was once again busy; 12,000 boxes were landed by six Scottish trawlers and eleven Anglo Spanish liners. The Scottish effort continues to concentrate on the Rockall haddock and squid fisheries both of which have exceeded expectations this year. The Anglo fleet are starting to drift away from Ullapool […]
Read More50 arrivals for the period Whitefish was reasonably busy; 8,400 boxes were landed by five Scottish trawlers and six Anglo-Spanish liners and netters. The Scottish effort concentrated on the dwindling seasonal Rockall squid fishery but was bolstered by the reappearance of haddock on the grounds. The Anglo fleet have had a fantastic spring and early […]
Read More48 arrivals for the period Whitefish was once again very busy with 15,000 boxes landed by Scottish and Anglo-Spanish vessels. The Peterhead-registered Atlantic Challenge, the largest trawler in the Scottish fleet, landed a variety of deepwater species from the Wyville Thomson Ridge. The ridge separates the Faroe–Shetland Channel to the north from the Rockall […]
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57 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 11,000 boxes from a variety of methods and areas. The Peterhead- registered trawler Ocean Endeavour continues to hunt for haddocks at Rockall with reasonable success and made two good landings for the period. The Inverness-registered trawler Adventurer spent his days fishing along the deepwater shelf edge for monkfish […]
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31 Arrivals for the Period Whitefish has been extremely busy with 17,250 boxes landed for the period from 11 Scottish trawlers and 8 Anglo Spanish long liners and netters. The seasonal Rockall haddock fishery has been extremely productive this year, with boats filling up in as little as 36 hours fishing. All good things […]
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