by SPSG | May 21, 2019 | News
The Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association and Fisheries Innovation Scotland (FIS) won the Fishing News Sustainability Award last week (16 May) for their study on scientific self-sampling The project, which included the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, Scottish...
by SPSG | May 7, 2019 | News
The Power of Science, by Ian Gatt, chairman of the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group Fisheries science and the calculation of stock sizes of individual species – or Spawning Stock Biomass as it is known – is an incredibly complex process, but absolutely vital in...
by SPSG | Apr 8, 2019 | News
Following the publication last week by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES Report that reviews the methods used in the 2018 Northeast Atlantic mackerel stock assessment, which concludes that there were flaws in the methodology due to issues...
by SPSG | Apr 4, 2019 | News
Ian Gatt, chairman of the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group and Co-ordinator of MINSA (Mackerel Industry Northern Sustainability Alliance) recently gave a presentation on Mackerel Science to the Seafish Common Language group. In his presentation he explores the...
by SPSG | Feb 11, 2019 | News
By Ian Gatt, chief executive Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association When it comes to fishing there is the oft-repeated mantra from many environmentalists that big is bad and small is good. Much more sustainable and better for society, they argue, to have small-scale...