by SPSG | Apr 6, 2020 | News
The Scottish fleet has successfully completed its annual blue whiting fishery in the North Atlantic to the West of Ireland and Scotland. About a quarter of the Scots pelagic fleet engages in the fishery each year, with catches landed into Killybegs in Donegal, and...
by SPSG | Apr 2, 2020 | News
Francis Clark of the Scottish Pelagic Processors Association outlines the remarkable innovation behind developing new mackerel products for consumers Imagine if Scotland had a most incredible natural food resource that was sustainable, affordable to buy, highly...
by SPSG | Jan 30, 2020 | News
It was a slow start to the year for the Mackerel fishery for the Scottish mackerel fleet, with stormy weather curtailing their operations. But in the last week or so, conditions have improved, and the fleet is currently working at full swing, with boats following the...
by SPSG | Dec 18, 2019 | News
By Ian Gatt, chairman of the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group The mackerel is a fascinating fish and a real nomadic wanderer, with their huge shoals taking them on vast annual spawning and feeding migrations that stretch from the south-west of Ireland and then...
by SPSG | Nov 21, 2019 | News
The Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group (SPSG) is calling for swift international action to protect the North East Atlantic mackerel stock from the unilateral and unsustainable actions of Iceland, Greenland and Russia in setting their quotas outwith international...