While welcoming the overall commitment of resources for the national Helicopter Search and Rescue (SAR) service from 2012, the Federation of Irish Fishermen today rejected as "scandalous" the reported proposal to downgrade the SAR Helicopter service based at Waterford to a daytime only service.

GRIMSBY Fish Docks played host to an unusual and historic visitor at the weekend - the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.

Scotland’s largest independent salmon farming business has signed an exclusive three-year £3miliion contract for nets with Ayrshire’s W & J Knox.

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LIGHTHOUSE Caledonia, Scotland's largest independent salmon farmer, over 30 sites in Scotland, has announced record profits for the last quarter of 2009, following a restructure of the company last year. The company made £4.2m profit before tax for Q4 2009 against a £768,600 loss for the same period the previous year.

FOUR men were rescued by an RNLI all weather lifeboat on Saturday night after Milford Haven Coastguard received an emergency 999 call from a mobile phone alerting them to four men in a liferaft off Linney Head, Pembrokeshire.

Macduff Shipyards Ltd have just completed a major conversion on a former north east vessel.

TOMMY Rudland, one of the leading figures in the Grimsby fish trade for many years , has died aged 80.

EAT more seafood and boost your health has to be the message for 2008, according to an Australian expert.