A new scallop boat for Islay has just been launched. Built by Parkol Marine Engineering of Whitby, the 20m Atlantic Dawn is the first vessel to be completed at the company’s new Middlesbrough yard.
She will be delivered to Islay Crab Exports, which is a family-run shing business supplying high quality shellfish to European markets.
The company, which was established in 1985, operates a Theet of scallopers and crabbers which fish off the Outer Hebrides, the west coast and sometimes as far out as the Donegal coast in Ireland.