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Key Contact: Leslie Tait

Shetland Seafood Centre,
Stewart Building,
Lerwick,
Shetland.

Tel: (01595) 693197
Fax: (01595) 694429
Email: info@shetlandfishermen.com

 Chairman: Leslie Tait
Email:  ltaitsfa@gmail.com

 

Background:

The SFA acts primarily as a pressure group representing the views of members to all levels of Government. It is actively involved in discussions not only in Shetland, but also at the Edinburgh and Westminster Parliaments and within the European Union. The diversity of membership is reflected by the separate Sub Committees representing pelagic, whitefish and small boats interests. However, the Association policy is determined by an annually-elected Executive Committee. As well as providing political representation, the Association continues to operate a Group Life Assurance Scheme on behalf of its membership.

The SFA is also closely involved in fishing training through the Shetland Fisheries Training Association and the North Atlantic Fisheries College.

Latest News

16 February 2012

Scottish fishermen have condemned Iceland and the Faroes for the breakdown in talks in Reykjavik today (16 February) with the EU and Norway on reaching an international deal for the sustainable management of the North-East Atlantic mackerel fishery.

Ian Gatt, chief executive of the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association (SPFA), branded this final set of talks with Iceland and the Faroes as a “wild goose chase” with neither of the countries showing any intention of seeking realistic compromise in the negotiations.