What's in the issue

Call for bottom trawling ban in all European MPAs; royal visit for Toms yard; Irish parliamentary committee recommends ombudsman for SFPA; and Reform UK sets out fisheries policy principles. Plus: disentanglement training and next steps forward for negatively buoyant rope roll-out in Scotland; reflections on the state of South West pot fisheries in the second year of the octopus boom; and recollections of the North Sea herring fishery in the 1950s.