For very many years the companies now in membership of the Association had been members of the salesmen’s sections of the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association Ltd and the Scottish Whitefish Producers Association Ltd. For practical purposes the ‘Salesmen’ operated a joint salesmen’s section as a constituent of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation.
In the early 1990’s however a number of companies began to feel that their interests and views would be more distinctly represented by the formation of a new association and this led to the incorporation of Fishsalesmen’s Association (Scotland) Ltd on 13 August 1993. The Association is therefore one of the youngest constituent of the Federation albeit its members have an earlier history of activity within the SFF and in the Scottish fishing industry at large.
The companies in membership of the Association have been part of the fishing industry for many years going back in most cases to before the second World War and indeed the antecedents of some of the members can be traced back over 100 years.