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The modern British distant waters fishing fleet has a proud history, catching cod and haddock off Norway and Greenland for the nation's fish & chip shops

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📰NEWS: In cod we trust: Industry urges ministers to back Britain’s chippies before the high street loses its national dish.

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: We get some amazing views from #Kirkella 🌅

*Originally posted 28 February 2022

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: Charlie's last boat drill 🚤

*Originally posted 2 April 2022

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive entering King George dock 🫡

*Originally posted 3 April 2022

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: Visit and routine inspection by the Norwegian Coastguard of our logbooks, nets and fish in the hold, etc. Everything in order!

*Originally posted 18 June 2020

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: Youngster Sean McClean enjoying his first trip aboard #Kirkella.

*Originally posted 13 September 2023

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: 🛑 WET PAINT 🖌

*Originally posted 26th June 2021

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More Fishing Nostalgia ✨ Stories of our fishing heritage from @YourFishingNews.

."...from St Helier, this 1973 Noble’s build, Prospector J 189, has passed through the hands of careful owners in the west of Scotland, Scarborough and Northern Ireland"

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: Passing Bjorn Island or Bear Island, temp at minute -9.5 degrees.

* Originally posted 27 April 2022

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: Deck squad left to right: Kevin O'Donnell, Gavin Smith, George Inness and Liam Olssen maintaining the trawls.

*Originally posted 17 September 2023

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📰 NEWS: Tenby named among the UK's best towns for fish and chips 🍟🐟

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: Trip ashore to get supplies.

*Originally posted 1 October 2024

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: Johnny Buchan working the heading machine.

* Originally posted 13 March 2024.

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Iconic North East fish and chip shop welcomes the Princess Royal for centenary celebrations

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✨ Stories of our fishing heritage from @YourFishingNews.

Until only 20 years ago, Scarborough was one of the leading whitefish landing ports on the East Coast of England.

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📰 NEWS: Fish and chip sales drop in 2025, but new market opportunities emerging, Seafish data finds.

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: Kevin O'Donnell replacing battery in headline sensor so that the bridge receives information on the trawl opening and possible fish entering the trawl.

* Originally posted 31 August 2023

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🚢 #KirkellaArchive: Kane Gayton landing Kirkella's latest catch 📦

*Originally posted 30 September 2023

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✨ Stories of our fishing heritage from @YourFishingNews.

📷 Last of the Girvan-built ring-netters: Photos from the Scottish Fisheries Museum archive offer a window into pair trawling and prawn trawling off Campbeltown in the 1980s.
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✨ Stories of our fishing heritage from @YourFishingNews.

📰 Fishing’s first ‘celebrity’ – skipper Albert ‘Hurricane Hutch’ Hutchinson – and of the adventuring ex-con-turned-writer who made the Grimsby trawlerman a household name more than 80 years ago.

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