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MMO byelaw covering specified areas in the following 13 marine protected areas.
The UKSIA manages UK domestic fishing vessel access to non-UK waters and foreign vessel access to UK waters.
How to understand each part of your fishing vessel licence – vessel details, conditions, schedule, annex and their current copies.
The 2022 report on the UK commercial fishing industry including statistical tables and underlying data sets.
These annual figures provide a broad picture of the UK fishing industry and its operations.
Find out which activities may be exempt from requiring a marine licence and what you need to do in such circumstances.
We recruit people across a wide range of roles at all levels of the organisation.
Information about seafarer working and living rights - working conditions, conditions of employment, safe working practices, living conditions, dangerous cargo, health and medical care, maritime labour convention, human elem…
Create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.
Find out about funding available through the Infrastructure Scheme.
Information and documents on the development of the South West Marine Plans.
This guidance provides definitions for some commonly-used terms on the subject of marine licensing.
Guidance on oil spills
Map showing how England's inshore and offshore waters have been split into 11 marine plan areas.
Published June 2021 the South West Inshore and South West Offshore Marine Plans provides guidance for sustainable development from the border with Wales to the River Dart in Devon.
Collection of documents about fishing vessel licences.
Harbour Orders are a form of delegated legislation made under the Harbours Act 1964 (HA 1964), which either amends existing harbour legislation or introduces new harbour legislation.
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.
How fisheries management plans will be used to create a more vibrant, profitable, and sustainable fishing industry.
The Blue Belt Programme supports the UK Overseas Territories with the protection and sustainable management of their marine environments.
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