Fishing Licences & Quotas

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Mackinnons remain the premier provider of legal advice to the Scottish fishing fleet.

Our commercial marine law team regularly act for fishing vessel owners, fish producer organisations and vessel managers in this specialist area of law, advising our clients throughout the application for and transfer of fishing licences, in the establishment of licence entitlements and the transfer of licence entitlements and in fish quota sale, purchase and leasing arrangements.

In addition, we also represent lenders, dealing with security arrangements relating to fishing licences and quotas.

How can we help you?

Please contact Graham Jones on 01224 632464.

Fishing News Awards and Scottish Skipper Expo 2023

Last week was an eventful one for the Scottish Fishing Industry with the return of the Fishing News Awards and Scottish Skipper Expo.

24 Feb

Latest ASPC Results

The recent publication of the statistics for the fourth quarter of 2022 (produced by the ASPC in conjunction with the University of Aberdeen Business School, Centre for Real Estate Research) provides an interesting insight into market activity during the last quarter of 2022. The main points of note are as follows:

13 Jan

New Year's Resolution?

2022 offered some interesting debate about sole director companies which had chosen to implement the Model Articles and how (or whether) certain provisions of the Model Articles applied (or not).

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