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Map showing the East Inshore and East Offshore marine plan areas.
Fishing and seafood businesses need to prepare for 1 January 2021, the end of the transition period when there will be some new processes for exporting fish and seafood into the EU.
Updates from the MMO Marine Planning team (Winter 2025).
Offer of additional quota to vessels in the non-sector with over 10 metres: Category B, Category C and no-quota annex licences.
The Southern North Sea demersal non-quota species (NQS) Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) covers ICES divisions 4b and 4c and includes demersal species red, tub and grey gurnards, cuttlefish, squid, octopus, john dory, red mul…
Details of skipper responsibilities, device specification and requirements, VMS+ guidance, and reports.
You can apply to lease extra quota from a producer organisation (PO), to supplement your catch limits or to keep fishing a stock where the 10-metres-and-under or non-sector pool allocation has been used.
These steps must be carried out before you submit your formal application.
Offshore generating stations may require a marine licence and other consent.
There is anticipated to be excess quota in the non-sector pools. In order to make the best use of this quota and to ensure opportunities are available to as many vessels as possible the MMO are taking the following action fo…
The region covers Dungeness to Swanage.
Information about the Seafood Disruption Support Scheme.
Information about the Seafood Response Fund.
UK and foreign vessels landings by UK port and UK vessel landings abroad: provisional data.
Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is asking stakeholders with an interest in demersal fishing in the Celtic Sea or Western Channel to share their views on future management of the species.
Draft fishing gear impacts evidence documents for stage 4 marine protected areas (MPAs). Stage 4 covers impacts of fishing on MPAs with highly mobile species features, including harbour porpoises and marine bird species.
On 10 April 2024 Defra launched a Pollack compensation scheme to provide support to those who have been most impacted by the bycatch-only pollack fishery in the South-West.
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has written to the Office for Statistics Regulation to request a temporary suspension to the accredited official statistics designation of the Sea Fisheries Statistics.
Outlining the consultation process for Harbour Orders
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