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Delivering quality to the world
Shetland Catch is the largest pelagic factory of its kind in Europe. Remotely located in the wild, clean waters of the North Atlantic - we are where the fish are. This means that we can guarantee our customers worldwide the freshest frozen mackerel and herring on the market.
The herring arrives.
Our first herring of the season arrived yesterday (12th August) from the MV Christina S. She arrived with a fine shot of 210gms average fish, which was caught west of Orkney. We produced a mix of whole round herring and flaps and generally spent the day fine tuning the machines in our re-designed filleting area.
The Christina S has left for the fishing grounds already and will be joined by more of our Scottish suppliers next week. The Shetland fleet plan to start their herring fishery later this month after the annual Inter Club sailing regatta has finished.
The new Irish pelagic trawler, MV Voyager, is due in Lerwick today to take on nets and other fishing gear before heading to the herring grounds. We’d like to congratulate skipper Mcculloch on his new vessel and wish him good luck at the fishing grounds.
We expect to sell our herring production to regular customers in EU and Africa and do not foresee any problems as the quota for the UK vessels is quite small.
We are also making preperations to start the mackerel season in early September. We expect to attract landings from Scandinavian vessels during September and from UK vessels from October. Part of these preperations is our attendance at the 19th World Food Moscow Show, which is held at the Moscow Expocentre between the 14 - 17 September. If you’ll attend then please visit me, or Alan Leask, on the "Russian Fish Company" stand in Pavilion 3 to discuss your mackerel requirements.
You can contact us at sales@shetlandcatch.com if you have an interest in herring or mackerel and wish to discuss your requirements with a member of our sales team.
John Angus.
13th August 2010.
MV Quantus lands.
Shetland Catch would like to extend a warm welcome to skipper Ian Buchan and the MV Quantus as they make their first landing to us today, 18th August. We hope it will be the first landing of many and look forward to seeing them again in the near future.
Maiden Landing From MV Voyager.
Shetland Catch was pleased to welcome skipper Arnold Mcculloch and his splendid new vessel, MV Voyager, on Friday 20th August with their maiden landing of herring. The herring were averaging 300gms, which is perfect for producing whole round herring for Africa and skinless fillets and flaps for European markets. We hope to see Arnold and the Voyager again in the near future!
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Shetland Catch sponsors Relay for Life
Shetland Catch was proud to sponsor Cancer Research UK's Relay for Life, held at the Clickimin Centre on the 29th May. The Shetland event was the UK's largest with more than 1900 participants, which has raised over £160,000 so far. We congratulate everybody who helped or participated towards this worthwhile cause!
R.N.M.D.S.F. Golf Tournament
Shetland Catch was delighted to continue its sponsorship of the Royal National Mission for Deep Sea Fishermen Golf Tournament, which was held in Whalsay at the end of May. 80 golfers took part and the event raised £4000. The team from the MV Tranquility won the cup this year. Shetland Catch has sponsored this event for the past 14 years, during which time more than £70,000 has been raised for the RNMDSF.
Shetland Catch sponsors The Tall Ships Races 2011 Lerwick.
 Shetland Catch is proud to be a Host Port Sponsor when The Tall Ships Races call to Lerwick, between the 21-24 July 2011. This event will provide us with an excellent opportunity to invite customers & suppliers to sample Shetland hospitality at its best. It is hoped around 70 tall ships of various sizes will participate in 2011, which will add a lot of colour to Lerwick Harbour for 4 days.
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