Press releases
Skippers, Owners and Auctioneer in Newlyn Black Fish Scam ordered to pay £188,000
(6 Jan) The owners and skippers of six Newlyn fishing vessels who deliberately over-fished protected fish stocks for financial gain and an auctioneer who sold their fish were ordered to pay a total of £188,450 in fines and costs by a judge at Truro Crown Court on January 6th 2009...
Other press releases
2008
- November
- English Fishing Industry Gets £1 million Grants Boost
- Scott Trawlers £25,000 Fine Appeal Dismissed
- September
- UK Sea Fisheries Statistics 2007
- European Fisheries Fund open for applications
- Belgian Fishing with Blinders for Second Time to Pay £43,000 and Forfeit Gear
- July
- 25 July - UK Super Scallopers Who Showed Indifference to the Rules Get Big Penalties
- 22 July - Three Cheating Skippers and a Fish Merchant Face £317,000 Penalty for 'Black' Sole
- May
- 29 May - Changes to 10m and under catch limit for NS Nephrops
- 15 May - Belgian Beamer Hit for £31,000 After Steaming for Zeebrugge
- February
- 22 Feb - TN Trawlers: Black Fish Ringleaders Hit For Almost £1 million
- 15 Feb - Fishermen Urged: Get Skates on for Conservation
- 14 Feb - Increased Monthly Catch Limit Leads to Channel Cod Closure
- 12 Feb - Belgian Owner Fined Maximum After Beamer Tries to Flee
2007
- December
- 19 Dec - Shaw welcomes "fair" deal for UK in EU fisheries talks
- 13 Dec - Surf Reef is Go – after official green light from MFA
- 11 Dec - Kilkeel
- October
- 31 October - French and Dutch Trawlers Pay More than £55,000 after Joint Exercise
- 22 October - Grants awarded under the FIFG grants scheme
- August
- 30 August - Eight South West Beam Trawlers to be Broken Up to Save Stocks of Western Channel Sole
- 24 August - Newlyn Trawler Fined For Log Book Offences
- 22 August - Stand By For Science Students on the Early Morning Fish Markets
- 16 August - Belgian Beam Trawler Fined £38,000 For North Sea Offences
- 16 August - Brixham Scalloper Fined for Black Fish Cheating
- July
- 27 July - Beamer Fined for Concealing Catch
- 27 July - Nine Vessels Win Grants for Decommissioning in the South West
- 24 July - Irishman fined £18,000 for hake recovery zone breaches
- 23 July - Dutch scallop dredger ordered to pay £47,000 in fines and costs
- 02 July - 'Black' fish skippers fined at Newcastle Crown Court
- May
- 25 May - £3M boost for English fishing industry 08/07
- 9 May - Belgian beamer ordered to pay £20,000 for illegal fishing in the North Sea 07/07
- April
- 20 April - Marine and Fisheries Agency opens £5M fishing vessel decommissioning scheme
- 17 April - Company secretary fined £37,500 in Kilkeel black fish case 06/07
- 16 April - Bass poacher ordered to pay £1000 for selling catch without a licence 05/07
- February
- 16 February - Belgian trawler fined after aerial surveillance in closed Celtic sea box 03/07
- 12 February - Skipper and Owners Fined £23,000 for Net and Log Book Offences in Celtic Sea 01/07
- January
- 1 January - Marine and Fisheries Agency wins huge illegal fish case at Liverpool Crown Court 02/07