Fisheries

Labour shortage hits UK fishing

2025-05-19T11:35:00

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Source: Seafish

Access to skilled labour continues to be the leading employment challenge facing the UK fishing fleet, according to a new report by Seafish

The ’2024 Employment in the UK Fishing Fleet’ report, based on data collected during Seafish’s annual fleet survey in summer 2023, reveals that fewer than 25% of skippers and vessel owners rated access to skilled crew as ‘good’ or ‘very good’, while nearly half described it as ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’.

One significant factor highlighted is the ageing workforce.

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