Whitefish totalled 4200 boxes from 10 Anglo Spanish vessels, 9 long-liners and 1 gill netter. Fishing remains steady for the Anglo fleet with all vessels reporting good returns for their efforts. Our top landers, The Ayr Queen and Sylvanna, have returned home for their annual spring break. The Scottish fleet continue to fish for monks […]
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Whitefish totalled 6000 boxes from 12 Anglo Spanish liners, 1 gill-netter and a Scottish twin rigger. Fishing continues to exceed demand with all sectors reporting excellent catches but poor market prices. The shellfish sector continues to be busy with 23 vessels landing prawns and crabs from the N Minch and Butt of Lewis; once again […]
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Whitefish totalled 4000 boxes from 6 Anglo Spanish liners and 1 gill-netter. Fishing has been very good of late with plenty fish on the grounds; already skippers are concerned that quotas will be quickly exhausted if catch rates continue as they are. Market prices for all species are unusually low due to the continuing financial […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 4900 boxes from 2 Scottish twin-rig trawlers and 10 Anglo Spanish liner/netters. The Scottish boats continue to target monkfish and ling on the shelf edge despite the stormy weather; unfortunately prices for prime fish have dropped dramatically, as have catch rates, making for difficult times ahead. The Anglo vessels land very […]
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Harbour news Whitefish totalled 1840 boxes from 1 Scottish twin rigger and 3 Anglo Spanish liners. The Inverness registered Adventurer sailed on the 28th December and worked over Hogmanay landing a very good shot of groundfish on 7th January despite enduring some terrible weather. The Spanish liner Arrigorri made 2 good landings over the festive […]
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Harbour news This week, whitefish totalled 1000 boxes from the two Anglo-Spanish liners Ayr Queen and Sylvanna. The offshore crabbers Our Hazel and Heather K and the Gairloch prawner Ocean Trust made their regular weekly landings and the Oban prawn trawler Maryeared called in for ice. 2012 has been a very challenging year for all […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 5000 boxes from 8 Anglo-Spanish liners and 3 Scottish trawlers. The Anglo fleet continue to land top quality line caught ling and hake whilst Scots lads concentrate on monkfish and haddock from the Shelf Edge and Rockall. The BF registered Endeavour made an unscheduled appearance when they towed in the INS […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 5200 boxes from a variety of vessels. The Scottish pair team Boy John and Rose Bloom landed a full load of bonnie haddocks from local waters, normally these boats work the North Sea and northern isles but as ever quota restrictions necessitated a change of grounds. The twin rigger Adventurer put […]
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Harbour News Whitefish totalled 2250 boxes from 2 vessels; the Scottish twin rigger Adventurer made 2 landings of mixed fish and the Spanish liner Ayr Queen 3 landings of hake and ling all from the Shelf Edge. Once again figures are well down due mainly to the lack of effort / vessels left fishing west. […]
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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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