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Create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.
Bluefin (BFT) by-catch rules within the commercial fishery.
How catch limits are set and how to get involved in setting them. This includes current catch limits and closed fishing areas.
Find out the measures the UK and EC are taking to reduce fishing industry threats to marine life, such as overfishing, finning, and bycatch
Video help files for fish export service, catch certificates and processing statements
Use the Fish Export Service to create a UK catch certificate for fish and shellfish caught by UK flagged vessels for export.
Changes to a key section of the catch recording app and website are being planned to enable fishermen to record when retained catch is landed.
Catch quota management is an alternative system of managing fish quotas that counts all catches of fish at sea against a vessel’s quota.
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
How to export or move fish for human consumption from the UK.
Report how many small sea trout, salmon and grilse you've caught if you have a migratory salmon and sea trout rod licence
From 1 October 2017 UK registered vessels must not fish for berried lobsters.
Get a licence to catch certain birds trapped on food premises.
Certain vessels must use an acoustic deterrent device, known as a 'pinger', to reduce the level of dolphin and porpoise (cetacean) by-catch.
New legislation (The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024) will make it a criminal offence for any recreational fishing vessel to target BFT in the UK without a permit.
Vessels that do not have their quota managed by a Producer Organisation are managed by the Marine Management Organisation via catch limits.
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