Fishing News Magazine

27 August, 2025

Scottish industry condemns new immigration rules that will make employment of migrant crew ‘uneconomic’; MP asks National Audit Office to review IVMS – ‘a substantial waste of public funds’; and major collaborative study of octopus bloom gets underway. Plus: expansion at C Toms & Son with £1m development; a West Wales family fishing enterprise, from sea to plate; and what might large new oyster reefs around wind farms mean for fishermen?