Access to Skilled Labor Still Dominant Issue for UK Fishing Fleet, New Report Finds
Access to skilled labour continues to be the dominant employment issue for the UK fishing fleet, a new report from Seafish has claimed.
The industry body’s 2024 Employment in the UK Fishing Fleet Report revealed less than a quarter of skippers and vessel owners interviewed last year rated access to skilled labour ‘good’ or ‘very good’ while nearly half rated it ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’.
The parts of the fleet most affected by recruitment challenges include scallop dredgers and nephrops and demersal trawlers over 10m in...
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