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New legislation requiring all under-12 metre vessels fishing in English waters to have an operational inshore vessel monitoring system (I-VMS) device, is just months away from being in place

• Updated: 4 April 2024

UK secures over 2,200 tonnes of fishing quota through annual negotiations with the Faroe Islands

• Updated: 4 March 2024

UK fishermen to benefit from continued access to Norwegian North Sea waters to fish for stocks such as cod, haddock and hake.

• Updated: 15 December 2023

UK fishing fleet to have access to 750,000 tonnes of fishing opportunities in 2024 and total value of fishing opportunities increases from £900 million in 2023

• Updated: 8 December 2023

As the roll-out schedule for ordering inshore vessel monitoring system (I-VMS) devices enters its third and final phase, fishers with 6-12m vessels are reminded to take advantage of the grant funding by 30 November.

• Updated: 19 October 2023

UK fishermen will not be permitted to catch or swap any of the UK’s 5,773 tonnes of North Sea sandeel quota in 2023.

• Updated: 14 June 2023

Industry update on the results of I-VMS device testing, as MMO confirms its ongoing commitment to support fishers.

• Updated: 18 May 2023

The projects range from practical courses in seafood preparation or manning fishing boats through to degree level qualifications.

• Updated: 10 February 2023

The UK has reached an agreement with Norway to secure increased opportunities for the UK fishing industry in 2023.

• Updated: 25 November 2022

£20 million awarded to modernise and improve infrastructure across the seafood sector with a further £30 million available from today

• Updated: 25 November 2022

Fisheries Enforcement Officers from the Environment Agency arrested one man on suspicion of poaching sea trout at Newbiggin by the Sea.

• Updated: 5 July 2022

A taskforce instrumental in smoothing seafood exports has met for the final time. Tailored dialogue with the fisheries sector will continue.

• Updated: 15 June 2021

Agreement covers catch limits for 70 shared fish stocks worth approximately £333m in fishing opportunities to the UK fleet

• Updated: 11 June 2021

Environment Secretary George Eustice answered an urgent question in the House of Commons about the EU's restrictions on the trade in live bivalve molluscs.

• Updated: 8 February 2021

In 2012 the Fisheries Administration introduced the requirement for vessels using bottom trawls and seines to use Square Meshed Panels (SMP) to improve selectivity and protect juvenile fish in the Celtic Sea.

• Updated: 31 December 2020

Memorandum of Understanding follows recent agreements with Norway and the Faroe Islands

• Updated: 9 November 2020

Applications are now open for a second round of the £10 million UK Seafood Innovation Fund to transform the future landscape of the seafood industry.

• Updated: 11 February 2020

The UK's Ambassador to the WTO and UN in Geneva, Julian Braithwaite, delivered the statement during the WTO's fisheries subsidies negotiations.

• Updated: 6 February 2020

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) will administer a new fund to drive innovation and take up of new technology, improve port infrastructure and processing fisheries and aquaculture products, and support lifesaving ves…

• Updated: 24 October 2019

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has published its annual UK Sea Fisheries Statistics 2018.

• Updated: 26 September 2019