Lindisfarne escapes designation – other boundaries amended Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey announced last Tuesday the final decisions on the five candidate sites for the first HPMAs in English waters, reports Andy Read. The announcement comes after an eight-month consultation period…
Defra will not carry out any further investigations into the cause of shellfish deaths in the North East of England, and there is ‘no question’ of the government offering any financial support or compensation to fishermen in the region, reports…
Defra confirmed last week a new round of funding awards from the UK Seafood Fund to support training initiatives in four institutions in England, from new deckie learners through to degrees for seafood processing managers. The successful completion of new…
Defra has confirmed the latest funding scheme to be financed from the £100m UK Seafood Fund, reports Andy Read. Grants of up to £40,000 are now available for fishing vessel owners to trial greener engine technology – both more efficient…
Fishermen will have bigger quotas for most key North Sea demersal stocks next year after a deal was reached on 9 December between the UK, EU and Norway on shared stocks, reports Tim Oliver. They include a highly welcome 63%…
Defra confirmed last week the latest round of funding awarded from the £100m UK Seafood Fund. Successful bids to the current £20m round include a project building on the growing success of the Cornish sardine fishery, where Falfish has been…
A best-practice code of conduct for sole fishing with gill-nets in Lyme Bay has been agreed by the steering group of the South West Regional Fisheries Group. The steering group was set up by the MMO and Southern IFCA in…
Northern Irish fishermen welcomed an announcement from DAERA last week confirming a ban on landing soft-shell brown crab. The initial moves for new legislation came from the Northern Ireland Fishermen’s Federation in 2020, part of wider requests from the industry…
Defra has appeared to confirm that Mark Spencer (pictured above), the new minister of state at Defra, has taken on formal responsibility for fisheries. In the first press release from the department after the end of the official mourning period…
Research reveals breakdown in relations between fishermen and regulators Max Dixon. Masters student Max Dixon featured earlier this year in the pages of FN (Fishing News, 21 July, ‘Do you trust the institutions that govern UK fisheries?’), when he asked…
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