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Map showing the East Inshore and East Offshore marine plan areas.
Guidance on the technical conservation and landing obligation (discard ban) regulations for 2020. Including how the rules apply, selling undersize fish, reporting requirements and quota management.
Guidance on the technical conservation and landing obligation (discard ban) regulations applicable from 2022 onwards. Including how the rules apply, selling undersize fish, reporting requirements and quota management.
Published June 2021 the North West Inshore and North West Offshore Marine Plans provides guidance for sustainable development from the border with Scotland to the border with Wales.
This page details the requirements for the Marine Mammal Reporting licence condition which has been in all fishing vessel licences since 2021.
Certain vessels must use an acoustic deterrent device, known as a 'pinger', to reduce the level of dolphin and porpoise (cetacean) by-catch.
Information about the Seafood Response Fund.
The use of chemicals to clean algae and other deposits off slipways and marine structures can cause pollution.
European Maritime & Fisheries Fund (EMFF): I-VMS
The byelaw for bottom towed fishing gear, including an impact assessment and charts.
Dogger Bank Special Area of Conservation is in the Southern North Sea, off the east coast of England.
These are the documents that need to be provided for a harbour reorganisation scheme (HRS)
Quota Application Mechanism: Application for the allocation of English quota
UK and foreign vessels landings by UK port and UK vessel landings abroad: provisional data.
Definitions of different fishing gears.
Information on selected marine licence cases, including licensed dredging and disposal activity within the Teesside area.
Draft fishing gear impacts evidence documents for stage 3 marine protected areas (MPAs). Stage 3 will seek to assess and manage impacts of fishing on the 43 remaining MPAs with seabed features not already covered in stage 1 …
Offer of additional quota to vessels in the non-sector with over 10 metres: Category B, Category C and no-quota annex licences.
Guidance for divers who wish to remove abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear (ALDFG).
Published June 2021 the South East Inshore Marine Plan provides guidance for sustainable development from Felixstowe in Suffolk to near Folkestone in Kent.
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