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Leading European adviser on fisheries to give UHI annual lecture

The title this article almost got was: ‘Big fish to talk on European fisheries at 2010 UHI Annual Lecture’ but a more sober headline seemed in better keeping with the gravity of the occasion.However,...

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EC to use emergency powers to reduce volume of west coast haddock discards

The European Commission has announced its intention to use emergency powers to reduce the amount of haddock being discarded in the West of Scotland.Under the previous catch composition quota rules,...

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Dave Thompson on detrimental impact of Common Fisheries Policy

Next week, Cabinet Secretary Richard Lochhead will travel to Luxembourg to the Council of Ministers’ Fisheries Council meeting.The purpose of the meeting is to negotiate the council agreement on the...

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McGrigor says Scotland’s fishing fleet has done more for conservation than...

Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands MSP and the Scottish Conservative Fisheries Spokesman, has today [13th December] praised the conservation efforts of Scotland’s fishing fleet.The MSP was...

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Fishing: Lochhead wants to see changes in ‘remote control’ from Brussels

Scottish Fisheries Secretary, Richard Lochhead,has just summed up the agreements made at the Fisheries Council in Brussels at the end of 2012 and has switched on the Decca to scan the horizon for the...

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McGrigor: Scots mackerel fishermen should be congratulated not punished

The removal of mackerel from a list of sustainable fish to eat has been branded ‘premature’ by the Scottish Conservatives.The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said today mackerel should only be eaten...

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Of course Jenkins wants to move the independence debate from the ‘hows’ to...

This suggests that the ‘hows’ are all sorted so we’re free to move on to the fantasy fun bit.The reality is that virtually none of the ‘hows’ of independence have been resolved at all – and, as they...

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The future of European Fisheries: Struan Stevenson MEP speaking at SAMS on...

With discussions ongoing on the belated reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, this is a critical moment in the shaping of the future of that policy -  and for the future of EU Funding in...

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Semple says: ‘Europe making a cod of Clyde fisheries’

Campbeltown’s SNP Councillor, John Semple, has sent a clear message to the Scottish Government of his own party – that any economic recovery in Kintyre and the Clyde Coast could be severely affected if...

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Pleas for action on Clyde fisheries

Highlands and Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor, has written to the First Minister, Alex Salmond MSP and twice to the Rural Affairs and Fisheries Secretary, Richard Lochhead MSP, asking for action on the...

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Fisheries Secretary responds to McGrigor on prawn fishing

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Fisheries, Richard Lochhead MSP, has responded to Highlands & Islands Conservative MSP Jamie McGrigor about the cuts faced by west coast based prawn...

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Fisheries Secretary responds to McGrigor on west coast prawn sector

Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs & Fisheries, has responded to a number of written Parliamentary questions tabled by Conservative Highlands & Islands MSP Jamie McGrigor on...

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McGrigor pushes Lochhead for details of EU fishing discard ban in practice

In the Scottish Parliament today, 11th June, Jamie McGrigor MSP, Scottish Conservative Fisheries Spokesman, pressed the interests of west coast artisanal prawn fishermen with Cabinet Secretary for...

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Fishermen’s chief has courage to say he felt Salmond response to be intimidatory

A bit of a spat broke out today, 7th July, between the First Minister, Alex Salmond, and a diplomatic but firm CEO of the Scottish Fishermens’ Federation, Bertie Armstrong.Mr Armstrong had written to...

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