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
Guidance on listed diseases of fish and shellfish and their status in England and Wales, including what happens if a disease is suspected or confirmed.
Information about the Seafood Disruption Support Scheme.
How to spot infectious salmon anaemia (ISA), what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
Check the tariff classification for saltwater fish.
Find out how to import live fish, molluscs and crustaceans for farming, ornamental, or any other purpose except direct human consumption
North West and Border Esk byelaws are statutory rules (regulated by law) and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
Apply for a licence to introduce, keep or farm non-native fish, lobsters and crayfish.
Information about the Seafood Response Fund.
When fishery owners and suppliers of live fish must get a fish health check. How to arrange the check and how to report the results.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
Information about the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme
Report from the Environment Agency describes a method that means we can directly measure the effect of exposure to sewage effluent on fish reproduction.
The region covers Worth Matravers/Saint Alban's Head around coast of Cornwall, to Bristol. This includes the Isles of Scilly.
Seafish (formally the Sea Fish Industry Authority) supports the seafood industry to work for a sustainable, profitable future. It offers regulatory guidance and services to all parts of the seafood industry, including catching and aquaculture, processors, importers, exporters and distributors...
South West byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
How to return tagged fish and shellfish, how much you get paid and what information to include.
A faulty pipe leaked deadly fertiliser into River Witham, stretching 46km in ‘one of the largest environmental incidents ever recorded in Lincolnshire’.
2,000 fish die as double pump failure diverts sewage across fields into watercourse.
Rod fishing byelaws are rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take in England.
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. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).