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Details of moorings, bridge heights, locks and facilities for boaters on Anglian waterways.
Register or license a boat for use on the UK's inland waterways or at sea - which authority to register with, the UK Ship Register and Small Ships Register, penalties and fines
River Medway general boating information.
Courts issue fines for failing to register boats on the River Thames. Environment Agency enforcement officers regularly patrol the river
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Distances between locks on the River Thames and measurements restricting navigation.
How different types of fishing gear must be marked, what you must do if you lose your fishing gear, how to report lost fishing gear.
FCDO travel advice for Barbados. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Codes, best practice guides, standards and classifications that vessel owners, operators, designers and builders should refer to.
What kinds of vessels get expanded inspections by the MCA, what happens during the inspections, notice, and where you can find more advice.
Vessel traffic management, electronic nautical publications and safety information for owners, operators of ships, yachts, fishing vessels.
Environment Agency took boaters to court over illegal occupation of riverbank for several years.
All fishing vessels must carry out regular drills and record these. Drills may differ depending on whether the vessel is single handed or not.
UK and international codes and standards for vessel stability and loadlines, safety advice and regulations for boatmasters, designers or shipbuilders dealing with vessel stability.
FCDO travel advice for Nicaragua. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for Cayman Islands. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for St Kitts and Nevis. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Apply for a boatmasters' licence to run a passenger-carrying or non-passenger carrying commercial vessel - apply, replace, renew or upgrade your licence
All references to Area VII are to Area VII within British Fishery Limits only. Details of the approach to managing the over 15 metre Area VII crab and scallop fishing sector to keep the fishery within UK effort limits.
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