We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Information on how to moor your boat along the River Thames.
All references to Area VII are to Area VII within British Fishery Limits only. Details of the approach to managing the over 15 metre Area VII crab and scallop fishing sector to keep the fishery within UK effort limits.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
How wind farms and wave and tidal energy devices can endanger navigation, emergency response operations, marine radar and GPS communications.
Routine resurveys are undertaken in areas where the seabed itself is highly mobile.
South West byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
The recovery of rare, threatened and important habitats and species in English waters is another step closer from today (Friday 22 March 2024).
Check UK customs rules for private individuals who use a pleasure craft (like a yacht or other boat) for recreational use, or temporarily import one as a non-UK resident.
PM Rishi Sunak's press statement on the next stage of the plan to stop the boats.
Check the tariff classification for bones with some meat, fat and tendons (so called soup bones).
Application form to register a boat (to pay harbour dues) in Rye Harbour.
Application form to register an unpowered enclosed boat for an annual registration on the River Thames, Anglian Waterways or Medway Navigation.
Apply for a boatmasters' licence to run a passenger-carrying or non-passenger carrying commercial vessel - apply, replace, renew or upgrade your licence
Codes of Practice detail the regular maintenance requirements of safety equipment and systems to a high standard, as is required to maintain fishing certificates.
Small commercial vessels must be registered, surveyed and inspected to meet UK safety laws - registering a boat, surveys and inspections
How you can manage, allocate, swap, transfer or lease fishing quotas.
A code of practice that's voluntary for boats which are less than 15 metres in length, and required for HMCG declared facilities.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Don’t worry we won’t send you spam or share your email address with anyone.