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Statutory guidance

Manage your fishing effort: Sole Recovery Zone 2026 to 2027

Detailed scheme rules and application forms to fish in the Sole Recovery Zone with regulated gears.

Updates to this page

From:
Marine Management Organisation
Published:
26 June 2014
Last updated:
13 April 2026
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  1. Link to the Introduction - Sole Recovery Zone Days at Sea: Apply to transfer days at Sea added to the Sole Recovery Zone Rules.

  2. Introduction - Sole Recovery Zone Days at Sea: Apply to transfer days at sea form link added.

  3. 2026/27 update

  4. Update 13/02 - SRZ rules

  5. 2025 update

  6. Dates updated to the new year (2024)

  7. Updating dates ahead of the New Year

  8. 2023-2024 update

  9. Form updated: Manage your fishing effort: Sole Recovery Zone 2022 to 2023

  10. page updated to reflect changes going into 2022

  11. Page updated following changes in guidance regarding beam trawlers.

  12. Sole Recovery Zone rules updated for 2021

  13. Updated for 2020

  14. Text updated

  15. Text and form updated

  16. form updated

  17. 2018 to 2019 rules added

  18. Rules updated

  19. Dates updated

  20. Sole Recovery Zone rules for the 2015 to 2016 management year changed

  21. Sole Recovery Scheme Rules for 2015 to 2016 added

  22. First published.

Documents

Sole Recovery Zone rules

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Sole Recovery Zone days at sea application form

PDF, 1.01 MB, 2 pages

Introduction - Sole Recovery Zone Days at Sea: Apply to transfer days at sea

https://submit.forms.service.gov.uk/form/1971/sole-recovery-zone-days-at-sea-apply-to-transfer-days-at-sea/6NBtrLbw

Details

The following rules apply to the carriage and use of regulated gears in the Sole Recovery Zone (SRZ) for the 2026 to 2027 Management Year (which runs from 1 February 2026 to 31 January 2027), The SRZ Scheme applies to vessels of 10 meters and over in length. The rules apply in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Area 7e (Western Channel).

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