UK fishing vessel lists
The monthly published vessel list provides a snapshot of the UK fishing fleet as at the first day of each month. It includes vessel characteristics (such as length, gross tonnage and engine power), vessel administration details, licence information and associated permit details, including shellfish and scallop.
Vessel lists include details of administrative port, home port, port letters and number, vessel name, Registry of Shipping and Seamen number and overall length.
Within the lists there are details of the membership of a Producer Organisation (PO). This relates to those vessels recorded as fishing against the quotas allocated to the PO and are thus managed by the PO. The full membership of a PO can include additional vessels which are associated with a PO for other purposes (e.g. to benefit from local marketing agreements), but whose fishing activity is subject to constraints set by UK fisheries administrations rather than the PO, and thus any PO not involved in directly managing fishing activity is not included.
UK vessel lists from previous years can be found in the archive here.
The spreadsheet below allows the calculation of a vessel’s gross tonnage.