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Thursday, 2 May 2013

Forced to fish out at Rockall - while closer to home there's not a UK fishing boat in sight!


AIS from VesselTracker


This screen grab shows an entirely foreign fleet of big fishing boats working the same ground around 100 miles north west of the Orkneys. The boats are Russian, Icelandic and Norwegian - targeting blue whiting for the Asian market?

At the same time some of our boats are making the long steam out to fish at Rockall so that they can avoid catching cod and try to catch haddock, monk and squid.