At last year’s Fisheries Management Plan stakeholder engagement events, fishers and seafood businesses worked with regulators to chart the future direction of shellfish management – and key themes emerged to guide the next stage of the process BY AOIFE MARTIN…
Fiona Birch reports on progress towards a stakeholder-led future for UK shellfisheries Fisheries featured prominently in the 2020 Brexit debate before the UK left the EU and the Common Fisheries Policy. Since then, a considerable amount of work has been…
Aoife Martin, director of operations at Seafish and chair of the Whelk Management Group, explains how industry-led science could hold the answers to some of the biggest questions in UK fisheries management Across the country, fishermen and scientists are joining…
FOIF sets out action plan for UK inshore fisheries Active fishermen on steering group Fishermen will be centrally involved in an action plan to fundamentally reform the management of UK inshore fisheries, reports Tim Oliver. The Future of Our Inshore…
