Fishing News  |  4th June 2026
Call for bottom trawling ban in all European MPAs; royal visit for Toms yard; Irish parliamentary committee recommends ombudsman for SFPA; and Reform UK sets out fisheries policy principles. Plus: disentanglement training and next steps forward for negatively buoyant rope roll-out in Scotland; reflections on the state of South West pot fisheries in the second year of the octopus boom; and recollections of the North Sea herring fishery in the 1950s
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Fishing News 4th June 2026.