The accelerated expansion of offshore wind and the pace of application of management measures within MPAs pose ‘a potentially huge spatial challenge to the fishing industry’, says the NFFO. It says this is not just the well-known view of the…
The MMO has launched a ‘call for evidence’ on the impacts of fishing activity in 13 MPAs, reports Tim Oliver. It says the evidence call is to progress conservation efforts in the MPAs. It follows new byelaws to prohibit ‘damaging…
The fuel issue is increasingly dominating discussions across the UK and European fishing industries, as prices have escalated in the last few weeks to a point where many classes of vessel are already unprofitable.
NFFO warns of damage to businesses and displacement MPs have introduced a new bill to restrict bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), reports Tim Oliver. Introducing the private members’ bill, which will ‘regulate and limit the practice of bottom…
The MMO has dropped its prosecution of Greenpeace over the illegal dumping of boulders in the English Channel last year, reports Tim Oliver. The move follows a hearing at Newcastle Crown Court in January, where the judge suggested that the…
The NFFO has produced the first of a series of four podcasts, using the Fathom platform, that will be broadcast in the first weeks of 2022. The Fathom podcast is run by the Cornish FPO, but is available online to…
A lifelong Thames fisherman and campaigner has called on George Eustice for more research to find out why sole stocks in the Thames have collapsed. Paul Gilson, newly appointed NFFO chairman and chairman of Leigh and Southend Fishermen’s Association, also…
Paul Gilson, a longstanding member of the NFFO’s executive committee and vice-chairman of its South East committee, who has also been chairman of Leigh and Southend Fishermen’s Association for many years, has been elected as the next chairman of the…
The NFFO has announced the appointment of its former chairman Mike Cohen as the federation’s new deputy chief executive. He will replace previous deputy CE Dale Rodmell, who is leaving the federation after 13 years to take up a new…
Working with other fishers across different fleet segments is challenging – but it offers a better way forward than attempting alliances with environmentalists, argues Newlyn fisherman and NFFO president Andrew Pascoe It is not that difficult to exploit divisions in…
