Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The 2018 built, 82 metre, pelagic vessel Serene, which left Whalsay for the last time in February, and has since been on the herring fishery and a visit to Skagen, has arrived at Fuglafjøður in Faroe, renamed Faghraberg and to be repainted from red to blue. The 85 metre replacement Serene is due at the end of next year.

Meanwhile the pelagic boats Antares and Research have returned from Skagen after landing blue whiting.

In Lerwick, for a fourth April visit since 2023 of a 48 metre by 16 metre Norwegian Navy Skjold-class corvette on military operations, is the Gnist. It was expected to be the Skjold, which is instead in Stavanger.

The 240 metre cruise ship Viking Vela has cancelled its arrival on Saturday because of the forecast. There are now expected to be 145 cruise ship arrivals for Lerwick harbour this year, down from 151, after eight cancellations and two additions.

In response to calls from the fishing industry for a long-term strategy, the UK parliament’s all-party parliamentary group on fisheries has launched a call for evidence to help develop a cross-party action plan on fisheries.

White fish box landings: 4 boats landed over 1100 boxes.

The inquiry into the death, by covid, of 66 year old Donald Singer will be held in September. In April 2020, when he turned ill, Mr Singer was a crane operator working on the Ninian Southern platform, 60 nautical miles east of Unst. He was taken by the coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh directly from Ninian Southern to Aberdeen. He died a month later in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.