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...
by SPSG | Oct 20, 2016 | News
Scottish fishermen will have increased catching opportunities for north-east Atlantic mackerel in 2017 following an agreement reached at coastal state negotiations yesterday (19 October) between the EU, Norway and the Faroe Islands. Under the agreement, which follows...
by SPSG | Oct 18, 2016 | News
Mackerel – Scotland’s marine gold, an article by John Goodlad, chairman of the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group, which appeared in The Scotsman newspaper on 11 October 2016. If you take a look at the new £5 Scottish bank note now coming into circulation, you will...