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
๐ฐNEWS: In cod we trust: Industry urges ministers to back Britainโs chippies before the high street loses its national dish.
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๐ข #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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."...from St Helier, this 1973 Nobleโs 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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๐ข #KirkellaArchive: Deck squad left to right: Kevin O'Donnell, Gavin Smith, George Inness and Liam Olssen maintaining the trawls.
*Originally posted 17 September 2023
โจ 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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๐ข #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
โจ Stories of our fishing heritage from @YourFishingNews.
๐ท 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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โจ Stories of our fishing heritage from @YourFishingNews.
๐ฐ Fishingโs first โcelebrityโ โ skipper Albert โHurricane Hutchโ Hutchinson โ 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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