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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.
How catch limits are set and how to get involved in setting them. This includes current catch limits and closed fishing areas.
Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
Report how many small sea trout, salmon and grilse you've caught if you have a migratory salmon and sea trout rod licence
Bluefin (BFT) by-catch rules within the commercial fishery.
Use the Fish Export Service to create a UK catch certificate for fish and shellfish caught by UK flagged vessels for export.
Catch quota management is an alternative system of managing fish quotas that counts all catches of fish at sea against a vessel’s quota.
Animal Welfare Committee opinion on the welfare implications of different methods and systems for the catching, carrying, collecting and loading of poultry.
Certain vessels must use an acoustic deterrent device, known as a 'pinger', to reduce the level of dolphin and porpoise (cetacean) by-catch.
Changes to a key section of the catch recording app and website are being planned to enable fishermen to record when retained catch is landed.
How to manage game birds during a bird flu (avian influenza) outbreak.
Signs that may suggest rabies in bats, what to do if you spot them and measures to prevent exposing yourself to the disease.
From 1 October 2017 UK registered vessels must not fish for berried lobsters.
How to export or move fish for human consumption from the UK.
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
New legislation (The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024) will make it a criminal offence for any recreational fishing vessel to target BFT in the UK without a permit.
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