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Information on the different types of commercial fishing vessel licences.
How you can manage, allocate, swap, transfer or lease fishing quotas.
The Marine Management Organisation’s (MMO) sought an assessment of methods for confirming where fish sold ashore were originally caught. Four technique classes were identified as promising by the MMO including stable isotopes, lipids, trace elements and genetics.
Create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.
The prohibitions and restrictions on the import of animal furs and skins into the UK and the export of salmon and trout.
Use this service to create a UK processing statement for fish and shellfish that have been imported or landed directly into the UK for processing, ready for export.
Find out what a composite product is, and how to import or move composite products from the EU to Great Britain.
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.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
The Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) offers a range of options which may support pollack fishers impacted by recent fisheries negotiations.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
…This includes current catch limits and closed fishing areas.
Use this service to create a UK storage document for fish and shellfish that have been imported or landed directly into the UK for storage, ready for export.
How to import or move fish for human consumption to the UK.
Information about the Seafood Response Fund.
Find out how to import live fish, molluscs and crustaceans for farming, ornamental, or any other purpose except direct human consumption
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export fish products to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
South East byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
You can apply to lease extra quota from a producer organisation (PO), to supplement your catch limits or to keep fishing a stock where the 10-metres-and-under or non-sector pool allocation has been used.
What you need to do as a fisheries business now the transition period has ended.
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