Cabinet secretary for rural affairs and the environment, Richard Lochhead will make a series of visits around Orkney this Monday and Tuesday.

Haddock round - £15-20; Haddock gutted £40-50; Whiting round - £15-20; Cod - £60-70; Codling - £00-00; Monk - £120-150; Witches - £50-60; Squid - £00-00; Lemon sole - £70-80; Plaice - £15-20, Ling - £00-00

FINDUS, the owner of Young's Britain's largest fish provider, has announced a key new post to handle the increasingly important issues of sustainability and the environment involved in seafood production.

Minister for Environment Roseanna Cunningham today commented on the findings of the 2008 Scottish Shellfish Farm Production Survey.

LOWESTOFT'S fishing industry has received an important investment and employment boost thanks to a new initiative by the local Waveney District Council and local politicians in helping to secure funding from European and from UK sources.

Welsh Scallop Fishermen have joined forces with their colleagues around the UK and marine biologists to prevent the closure of the Cardigan Bay Scallop fishery, and are calling on the Welsh Assembly Government to undertake rigorous scientific research before attempting to ban scalloping.

Scientists from the Marine Institute in Galway and Newport are playing a key role in 'Prevent Escape' - a major international project aimed at reducing the escape of farmed fish and their impact on wild stocks.

SOME of Britain's best young seafood chefs are to be found, not at the coastal fishing ports, but in the heart of the Midlands.

Students from University College Birmingham picked up top prize at the UK Seafood Championship held in Grimsby.

SPECULATION is growing that Birds Eye Iglo, Europe's major frozen fish producer may be floated on the Stock Market within the next 18 months.

PRESSURE is growing on the authorities to stop invoking the Proceeds of Crime Act on UK fishermen who break EU quota rules with a petition sent to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Na h-Eileanan an Iar SNP MP Angus MacNeil has influenced the UKBA to suspend any action for the time being against the deportation of fishermen from the Phillipines working on Scottish fishing boats.

A NEW European Union strategy on aquaculture for member states has been agreed at a Fisheries Council meeting in Luxembourg.

Annual scientific advice on the status of North Sea fish stocks has

In an unprecedented move a leading fish farming company has paid compensation to wild salmon managers following the escape of juvenile salmon from a freshwater farm.