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Shetland Times is Newspaper of the Year, campaigners expect ferry fares reduction and pressure mounts on Charitable Trust, all in this week’s Shetland Times • Businesses to decide on future of Living Lerwick.• Council backs major scheme to give Fair Isle 24hr power.• Tributes paid t... Read more...
Faroese Prime Minister Aksel V Johannesen arrived in Shetland today for a visit with the SIC and various industries, as well as, of course, the intention to see Up-Helly-A’. Mr Johannesen was invited by council convenor Malcolm Bell, who visited Faroe last year. The Faroese leader met committee c... Read more...
The Whalsay fish factory closed in 2012 with ferry cuts cited by locals as a prime cause. Symbister Harbour and Whalsay’s ferries are deteriorating and need upgrading.Skerries is in crisis following a three-year population implosion of more than 50 per cent. The local salmon farm and associate... Read more...
A Danish Navy warship called at Lerwick Harbour yesterday afternoon to take charge of the Sea Shepherd inflatable which was seized by police earlier in the week.The small boat Echo was picked up the HDMS Knud Rasmussen at around 3pm and less than half an hour later the warship was on her way... Read more...
The anti-whalehunting vessel Sam Simon, which arrived in Lerwick yesterday, is today en route to Faroe with the aim of disrupting the mass killing of whales.The vessel is one belonging to the Sea Shepherd organisation and together with two other ships in the fleet will spend the summer, the ... Read more...
Shetland pelagic fishermen have echoed processors’ demands to slash Faroese boats’ access to mackerel in European Union waters. (more…) Read more...
Scottish Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead has hailed the tri-partite deal on mackerel between the EU, Norway and Faroe as potentially worth an extra £83 million to the Scottish pelagic fleet. He said the agreement, reached after a four-year-long dispute with Faroe and Iceland, would “bring w... Read more...
Scottish fishermen will once more have access to Faroese waters following the first EU/Faroe fishing agreement since 2010. From 1st April fishermen will have Faroese fishing opportunities worth an estimated £3 million. According to the Scottish government this will reduce pressure on North Sea... Read more...
The two Shetland fishing crews who were socked with fines of nearly £48,000 by the Faroese are to be compensated by the Scottish government as a gesture of goodwill.The government has repeatedly maintained that it is not to blame for the communication failure which led to the prosecution of the... Read more...
By JOHN ROBERTSONAction has been taken to prevent a repeat of the communication breakdown which led to two Shetland boats being fined nearly £48,000 last week for fishing in an area closed by the Faroese.Shetland Fishermen’s Association chief executive Hansen Black said the process for in... Read more...