Fishing News Magazine

25 January 2023

Pressures on the industry mount, with a threatened bottom-trawling ban in another 13 MPAs, an NGO pushing for ‘compassionate’ shellfish handling, outrage at Irish decommissioning offers and no promises on an exclusive 12-mile limit from the fisheries minister. Plus: an in-depth report on the innovative new Venture IV, and detective work on 1960s Forbes vessels.