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...
by SPSG | Jan 30, 2017 | News
With Scottish fishing boats now participating in their traditional early year mackerel fishery, consumers are being urged to include mackerel in their weekly shopping baskets because it is one of the most nutritious and healthy-to-eat types of food around. Available...
by SPSG | Dec 6, 2016 | News
The following article by Dr Steven Mackinson, Chief Scientific Officer of the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association, appeared in The Scotsman newspaper on 6 December. There can surely be few more daunting tasks – how on earth do you estimate the size of our...
by SPSG | Nov 28, 2016 | News
Scottish mackerel fishermen and processors are calling upon the EU to reduce the current access arrangements for Faroese vessels to catch mackerel in Scottish waters. Under the two-part EU-Faroe bilateral deal first negotiated in 2014, a quota exchange agreement and...