Marine fisheries
Services
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Fixed quota allocation units
Details and forms for transferring fixed quota allocation units and getting a new holding statement.
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Give prior notification to land fish in the EU
You'll need to give prior notification before you land fish directly from your UK flagged vessel in an EU designated port.
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Commercial fishing vessel licence application form
Use this form to apply for a licence for a British-registered fishing vessel.
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Combine or separate a fishing vessel licence or entitlement (AFL19)
Use this form to combine or separate a vessel licence or entitlement and use the component parts of the licence or entitlement.
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Invitation to Tender Fisheries Science Partnership FSP (52)
FSP (52) ITT Reduce whiting by-catch in the South West otter trawl squid and cuttlefish fisheries
Guidance and regulation
- Create a UK catch certificate
- Fishing vessel licence variations
- Create a UK processing statement
- Minimum fish landing sizes
- Fishing vessel licence requirements
News and communications
- UK Government-led support for the Scottish seafood exports sector
- UK and EU agreement on catch levels for 2021
- UK shellfish exports: Environment Secretary's Commons statement, 8 February 2021
- Changes to demersal trawl selectivity measures in the Celtic Sea
- UK and Greenland strengthen cooperation on fisheries
Research and statistics
- Vessel lists over 10 metres
- Western Channel Cuttlefish report: December 2018–June 2019
- R046 - Predicting Fishing effort and impact
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science – Research at Cefas
- Effort statistics July 2019
Policy papers and consultations
- January 2020 catch limit consultation
- November 2019 catch limit consultation
- October 2019 catch limit consultation
- September 2019 catch limit consultation
- Fisheries: cod, haddock, saithe, whiting, plaice, herring and sprat management in the North Sea
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) implementation reports
- Marine Management Organisation (MMO): gender pay gap report 2020
- UK Government Blue Belt programme: Overseas Territories work plans and project costs
- Marine Management Organisation (MMO): gender pay gap report 2019
- Marine Management Organisation (MMO): gender pay gap report 2018