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• Record your catch

  Create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.

  • Updated: 9 October 2025
• Birds: licence to catch them on food premises (CL03)

  Get a licence to catch certain birds trapped on food premises.
• Lamprey and smelt: apply for permission to catch by net or trap

  When you can get permission to catch lamprey or smelt by trap or net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.

  • Updated: 22 December 2025
• Eel and elver: apply for permission to catch by net or trap

  When you can get permission to catch eel or elver by trap or net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.

  • Updated: 22 December 2025
• Check if you can get a glue trap licence

  Information for pest controllers about the rules for using glue traps to catch rodents and how to apply for a licence.

  • Updated: 4 February 2025
• Bluefin tuna (BFT) catch and release recreational fishery (CRRF) within English waters

  The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) will open a bluefin tuna (BFT) catch and release recreational fishery (CRRF) in English waters in 2026. The MMO will run the application process and will issue permits only for vessels fishing in English waters,...

  • Updated: 15 July 2026
• Exporting or moving fish from the UK

  How to export or move fish for human consumption from the UK.

  • Updated: 10 March 2026
• Bluefin (BFT) by-catch rules within the commercial fishery

  Bluefin (BFT) by-catch rules within the commercial fishery.

  • Updated: 28 March 2024
• Foxes, moles and mink: how to protect your property from damage

  How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.

  • Updated: 19 April 2023
• Freshwater rod fishing rules

  Follow national and local rules (byelaws) when freshwater fishing with a rod and line in England and Wales