Compiled on the quay · 487 suppliers to the UK fleet
Netmakers, rope and wire, hydraulics, ice, engineers, merchants and survival training, listed by port and by whether anyone answers out of hours. A boat alongside earns nothing, so that last part is most of the point.
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Why it exists
Where a firm agrees, the entry carries the number that gets answered at four on a Sunday morning. Roughly one in five will not give it, and their entry says so plainly. Two suppliers have asked to come off the directory rather than have that printed.
When the last ice plant on a stretch of coast shuts, deleting the entry helps nobody. We leave it with the date it closed and the nearest one that is left, which makes this directory look thinner than the ones that quietly tidy up.
If four skippers tell us a firm has stopped travelling past the headland, that goes on the entry even where the firm says otherwise. It is the only way the thing stays true, and it is why some suppliers will not speak to us.
No advertising, no lead fees. A processor offered us £40 an introduction and we said no. It also means that when a subscribing trust runs the slowest ice on the coast we print that too, and one of them has not renewed since.
“Hauler pump packed up on a Saturday with 300 pots still down and a forecast coming. Filtered hydraulics on my own coast with an out-of-hours number, two names came back, and the second one met me on the quay that evening with a pump off his own shelf.”
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Unit 3, Market Buildings, North Quay
Whitby, North Yorkshire YO21 3PU
Whitby · independent, and not owned by a merchant
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The business, the listings and the reviews are invented — this page exists to show what someone could put on fishingindustry.co.uk. The domain itself is genuinely for sale.
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