The Peterhead midwater trawler Pathway returned to her home port Saturday morning to land the first shot of blue whiting from the 2014 season for human consumption following a five day trip to grounds west of Ireland.
With a more settled period of weather forecast, more landings of blue whiting into north-east Scotland were expected for later this week.
Although Norwegian midwater trawlers started to fish blue whiting in International waters over 200 miles south-west of Ireland four weeks ago, a number of Russian factory trawlers -- Pathway, together with Kings Cross, Lunar Bow, Challenge and Taits -- were held back until the beginning of March before making the two-day steam to fish alongside Irish vessels.
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