A decade-long catch and launch scheme across the British coast exhibits shares from the Atlantic coast of Harris all the way down to the Bay of Biscay and out to the Azores.
The rod and line fishery off the Western Isles is nice, the catches are selective, of excellent high quality, and of the identical inventory as these caught in different areas of the UK.
Torcuil Crichton aboard for a touchdown by an area vessel simply again from a visit to distant St Kilda, 25 miles northwest of North Uist. “I attempt to see as a lot as I can of the native fleet exercise – this journey to St Kilda resulted in probably the greatest crab and lobster landings that I’ve ever seen!”
The wandering tuna has the potential to e an ideal residence and export market, and in 2023 one native operator in Harris, Angus Campbell, was granted a business licence to land fish, having labored a rod and line operation over a few years.