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A safety message to the fishing industry to highlight safe alternatives to walking on tipping doors and the importance of regular manoverboard drills.
This booklet provides guidance on how to assess the stability of your vessel and is intended to help you understand the principles of stability, the associated risks and hazards and what you can do to minimise them.
Three men from Leicestershire and one from Nottingham have pleaded guilty to fishing without a licence.
Find out the measures the UK and EC are taking to reduce fishing industry threats to marine life, such as overfishing, finning, and bycatch
I-VMS - Frequently asked questions
How to understand each part of your fishing vessel licence – vessel details, conditions, schedule, annex and their current copies.
Safety lessons to the fishing industry on how to embed a culture of effective control measures and practised emergency actions among crew.
Gives a summary of SOLAS chapter 5 regulations, and how they apply to fishing vessels registered in the UK.
Find out how to get to Environment Agency locks and weir fishing sites and when you can fish.
Guidance on funding pages for commercial fishing and fisheries.
MCA advice leaflet for the marking of fishing gear
All notices in relation to the International Labour Organization's Work in Fishing Convention (ILO 188).
Annual reports assessing the economic and sustainability outcomes of the negotiations on total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas.
How to import or move fish for human consumption to the UK.
A safety message to the fishing industry about the importance of reviewing newly introduced risks when plans change and regularly checking all unattended spaces.
Electronic recording system for producing annual accounts of safety inspections and surveys.
The licence sets out where you can fish, what you are not allowed to fish and the limits for the stocks you are allowed to fish and land.
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