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Guidance on the technical conservation and landing obligation (discard ban) regulations from 2025, including how the rules apply, selling undersize fish, reporting requirements and quota management.
The variation effective from 00:01hrs Saturday 01 August 2026.
Guidance on the environmental benefits of advanced mooring systems over traditional moorings, as well as the consent and marine licencing process.
Contact details for all enquiries relating to marine licences
Guidance for the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme
Information on responding to an oil spill including your options, how to get a product approved and how long it will take.
Applications and guidance for the 2025 Bluefin tuna (BFT) commercial and recreational fisheries is now available.
The timeline illustrates how the assessment and approval process works once an application for a marine licence has been validated.
This is the Marine Management Organisation's Harbour Orders public register page.
Details of how to correctly sample and analyse sediment in support of a marine licence application.
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
New EU Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing (IUU) requirements mean that UK exporters now need to provide additional information on catch certificates and other IUU documents. The changes detailed below had been inco…
How to report marine pollution incidents, the response to an incident and how to get approval to use an oil spill treatment product.
Information and guidance on UK seagrass, the value of this important marine habitat and the Marine Management Organisation's role in supporting its protection and recovery in England.
Find out about the different marine species and how they are protected UK wildlife legislation.
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.
The South Marine Plans were published on 17 July 2018.
Published June 2021 the North East Inshore and North East Offshore Marine Plans provides guidance for sustainable development from the Scottish Border to Flamborough Head in Yorkshire.
MMO byelaw covering specified areas in the following 13 marine protected areas.
This page details the requirements for the Marine Mammal Reporting licence condition which has been in all fishing vessel licences since 2021.
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