Statutory guidance

Variation issued: Thursday 19 July 2018

Updated 20 September 2018

1. Check your licence

It is your responsibility to check your licence documents before going to sea as licences can be changed at any time. The most up to date licences can be accessed on the understand your fishing vessel licence page.

The variations effective from 00:01 hours, Sunday 22 July 2018 are as follows:

2. 15 Meter and Over Increase in Crab Effort Days

2.1 Affecting licences Cat A (11) Cat A Island (12) Cat A Pelagic (17) Cat B (31) and Cat C (41)

  • to increase limits on the number of effort days of CRAB (meaning Edible Crab (Cancer pagurus) and Spider Crabs (Maja squinado)) fishery from 160 to 200 days, as outlined in Paragraph 5.3.1 of Licence Schedule in sea areas: VII, in total over the period 00.01hrs 1st January 2018 – 23.59hrs 31th December 2018