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An Irish fishing trawler has sunk off the coast of Scotland. The UK Coastguard confirmed that it received a distress call just before 11pm last night from a vessel around 220 nautical miles west of ...

FISHERMEN locked in an increasingly bitter battle with trawlers on the shellfishing grounds of Loch Fyne have accused the Scottish Executive of betrayal after it was called in to end the dispute. It ...

Mackerel fisheries are being closed to many of Scotland's trawlers from next week, it has emerged. The Scottish Executive has taken the decision as a precaution while it investigates overfishing. It ...

Five men on board the 25m Galway-registered Iúda Naofa trawler were saved as the vessel capsized and sank within 40 seconds off the Butt of Lewis, northern Scotland, on January 20, 2015. A Marine ...

RUSSIA is using spy trawlers off Scotland’s coast to fish for British secrets, a former naval commander has warned. The vessels, identified in the North Sea by Nato surveillance aircraft, are said to ...

Fisherman in Peterhead are calling for a concerted campaign to prevent the wholesale "slaughter" of haddock stocks. More than 70 skippers have ordered their boats back to the port amid growing concern ...

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) has come to blows with marine conservationists and creel fishermen campaigning to reinstate a three-mile fishing ban around the coastline. The Our Seas ...

The judge said "great care" was needed to ensure safety on fishing vessels A south of Scotland fishing company and its two directors have been ordered to pay a total of nearly £150,000 after admitting ...