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A man in a blue suit jacket and light blue shirt smiles outdoors near a harbor with boats, a red building, and cloudy sky in the background.

Food from the Sea – an attempt to overcome ‘fuzzy thinking’

27 May 2025

The NAFC Marine Centre in Scalloway, one of the colleges earmarked to merge into one organisation. Photo: Shetland News

UHI Shetland inaugurates Centre for Sustainable Seafood

29 April 2024

The love and wonders of Scottish sea produce

With the Taste of Shetland festival on this weekend, Erin Rizzato Devlin delves into the pages of a new book that celebrates Scottish seafood

27 October 2023

A small, beige building with a sign in the shape of a fish that reads "Fish Shop." Stacks of yellow crates are outside near the entrance. The sky above is partly cloudy.

Blydoit still on the lookout for new owner

24 October 2023

Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News

Seafood industry and council to strongly object to highly protected marine area proposals

15 March 2023

The NorthLink cargo vessel Hildasay arriving at Lerwick harbour.

Freight service still ‘first priority’ for local seafood industry

10 October 2022

Government agency denies suggesting cutting back seafood exports to alleviate ferry capacity pressure

24 June 2022

NorthLink freight boat Hildasay.

Greater freight capacity urgently needed to support ‘thriving’ economy

Transport group study highlights that many sailings are at or near capacity

28 March 2022

More than 200,000 boxes of fish have been landed in Shetland since the start of the year - Photo: Shetland Seafood Auctions

More funding available for seafood sector

26 July 2021

Harmful algal bloom warning system will be first of its kind in UK

5 July 2021

Salmon farm company in talks with ‘third party’ over sale of Shetland assets

29 June 2021

Funding for seafood businesses, drought hotspot, self-determination questionnaire, GlobalYell festival and Polycrub graduate sought

3 February 2021

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Additional paperwork a massive burden to small companies

7 January 2021

Winners of fishy stories lockdown competition announced

Seafood Scotland online resource was created when schools were shut due to Covid-19

5 October 2020

New electronic auction system trialled at fishmarkets

1 October 2020

Twenty jobs are to be lost in the fish factory while a further five have gone on the sea sites.

Confusion over ‘key workers’ should not be allowed to affect fish industries

24 March 2020

NorthLink freight boat Hildasay arriving in Lerwick. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News

Seafood industry furious with Transport Scotland

Tender will deliver ‘best possible ferry service’, government says

27 February 2019

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