by SPSG | May 8, 2017 | News
Dr Steve Mackinson, the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association’s (SPFA) chief scientist, will be giving a presentation in Fraserburgh on how mackerel tagging is playing a crucial role in the assessment of Scotland’s most commercially valuable fish stock. Every year...
by SPSG | May 1, 2017 | Recipes
Prep time: 4 minutes Cooking time: 5 minutes Serves: 4 Ingredients 4 mackerel fillets 1 tsp sea salt 60ml oil For the Asian salad: 2 red chillies Bunch coriander 1/2 red pepper 1/2 yellow pepper 12 mint leaves 4 shallots 20 mange tout 2 lime leaves Method Prepare the...
by SPSG | Apr 6, 2017 | News
The North Sea herring fishery operated by vessels belonging to the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group and the Pelagic Freezer-trawler Association (England, France, Germany, Lithuania and the Netherlands) has been recertified by the Marine Stewardship Council’s...
by SPSG | Mar 21, 2017 | News
It can be a difficult balance to eat healthily yet stay within a household budget. It can be even trickier to find a foodstuff that meets such criteria but which also tastes great and can be enjoyed by all the family. Well, two fish which most definitely tick all the...
by SPSG | Feb 1, 2017 | News
How the blue whiting fishery sustains vital jobs, by Ian Gatt, secretary of the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group, appeared in The Scotsman newspaper on 1 February 2017 It is a Scottish fishery that is not well known yet is worth around £17m in landings alone and...