68 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 8700 boxes from 6 Scottish trawlers and 19 Anglo Spanish liner/netters. The Scottish twin rig trawlers Adventurer, Genesis and Endeavour all landed good shots of monk and groundfish from the shelf edge. Despite the poor weather the boats continue to fish well reporting an abundance of fish on […]
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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 and award process. From […]
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13 arrivals for the period Whitefish totalled 300 boxes from one Anglo Spanish long liner Ayr Queen who has recently returned to Scotland after annual holidays. The Scottish fleet has been conspicuous in its absence due largely to the west coast monkfish quota being exhausted for the year. Shellfish landings/effort has also reduced with the […]
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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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