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Create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.
Information for pest controllers about the rules for using glue traps to catch rodents and how to apply for a licence.
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
Find out how you can control pests on your property - help from professionals, methods you can and cannot use, protecting wildlife, getting a wildlife licence
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
How catch limits are set and how to get involved in setting them. This includes current catch limits and closed fishing areas.
Find out how to control wild geese populations using egg oiling or by round-up and culling, if you’re permitted to do so under the terms of your licence.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
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