Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Scottish Green Party will stand a, still to be announced, candidate for the Shetland constituency at the Scottish parliament elections in May.

Beatrice Wishart has condemned, as unwelcome, the Scottish government decision to increase its economic-link landing-target for pelagic fish from 55 per cent to 70 per cent of catches which must be landed for Scottish fish processing factories.

This will increase the Scottish economic-link licence policy from a combined 55 percent of 8 pelagic species to the additional measures of 70 per cent for mackerel and 70 percent for herring to be landed for processing in Scotland.

For a fourth year salmon producer Cooke Scotland, which farms and processes salmon in Yell and Unst, has donated toys, games, creative craft kits and books to the Gilbert Bain Hospital for the team in the child health department to distribute to youngsters staying in over the festive period and throughout the new year.

This year, just over 326 thousand boxes were landed at the white fish markets of Lerwick and Scalloway. This year has been the tenth highest white fish landings year of the 23 years of the electronic market, the record year being 2019 with 436 thousand boxes.

Alistair Carmichael, has written to the communications regulator Ofcom to challenge, what he called, the “bizarre” roaming charges applied to some NorthLink ferry customers travelling between Lerwick, Kirkwall and Aberdeen.

A planning application has been submitted to the Shetland Islands Council for 25 temporary accommodation cabins on land in the south end of the Fair Isle. [LDRS]