"Fishing Boats" is the 40+FBA's magazine containing everything you would like to know from the past to the present about our islands' fishing boats.

FB24 is due out at the start of 2003 and will include:

Burry Inlet Cockle Fisheries - This cockle fishery gives employment to 55 full-time gathers and in 2001 this fishery gained Marine Stewardship Accreditation.
Decommissioned list 2002 - A list of all the fishing boats which have been destroyed through the latest round of the UK Governments decommissioning scheme.
The Grimsby Football trawlers - History of the Grimsby sidewinders ARSENAL, GY48, and PORT VALE, GY484.
Maine lobster fishery - A look at the way fishermen are diversifying away from catching lobsters on the American east coast of Maine.
The beginning and end to AVOCA - The enthusiasm in her early days, through to her destruction through decommissioning.
Misty Isle and O'l Blue - The latest adventures of two Irvine based historic fishing boats.
New Book - Steam drifters recalled Spey to Shetland and Stornoway, INS, WK, K, LK and SY.
Dog skin fishing floats - The history of dog skin fishing floats mainly used for drift-netting. They took two to three months to make and lasted years.
Museum Corner - Pemaquid Fisherman's Museum, near Maine, America.
Sidewinder SEAFIRE - The Hessle built trawler which ended her days in New Zealand.
Seine-netter STARLIGHT - The 1933 Lossiemouth built seine-netter is now based in the Mediterranean.
40+ boats that worked the North Sea - Memories of members boats which fished out of North Shields and Grimsby.
Boat registration and name changes - Latest boat movements in the British and Irish fleet.
Letters - Thanks to the Dunmore East life-boat following the rescue of COURAGEOUS II; Photographs of STAR OF THE EAST; KY199; In search of ganseys; When is a Rye smack a Rye smack? Kelvin engine built for MARGARET.
Events - IFOS, Leith & Hartlepool, 2003.