On 15 February, Wales become the first nation in the UK to require all of its licensed commercial fishing boats to be fitted with a vessel monitoring system (VMS). There are over 350 registered under-12m fishing vessels in Wales, making…
The MMO has rejected calls for boats within the under-10m fleet to be exempted from the requirement for all English under-12m boats to install inshore vessel monitoring systems (IVMS), reports Tim Oliver. NUTFA has been in discussions with the MMO…
The New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association (NUTFA) may have been founded originally by groups of like-minded inshore fishermen from England and Wales seeking a new voice with officialdom and regulators, but its reach now stretches far beyond this. The small…
Initiatives needed to help inshore fleet An inshore fishermen’s leader has spelled out that the Brexit delay will create major problems for the under-10m fleet, reports Tim Oliver But he says the almost three-year wait before the UK can be…
