under-10m

  • NUTFA: Advice and support for U10 fishers

    NUTFA: Advice and support for U10 fishers

    23rd December 2021

    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…

  • Additional quota for capped licence vessels remains open

    Additional quota for capped licence vessels remains open

    25th October 2021

    The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has announced that it will accept new applications by capped licence vessels for additional quota until early December following a positive early response to its initiative. Under this scheme, which is being run in partnership…

  • New Issue: Fishing News 14.05.20

    New Issue: Fishing News 14.05.20

    12th May 2020

      – Catch app legal challenge – Aalskere first box nets £1k for Mission – Loss of experts hits industry hard – Foreign boats move in as Scots tie up – EU, Norway and Faroes sign pelagic agreement – New…

  • Catch app legal challenge

    Catch app legal challenge

    11th May 2020

    Legal ‘warning shot’ on Catch App prosecutions Cases will be challenged in court, say industry groups Two fishing industry groups have fired a legal broadside at DEFRA and the MMO over the controversial under-10m Catch App, reports Tim Oliver. Plymouth…

  • New-look Blueye

    New-look Blueye

    26th September 2019

    Bridlington teamwork delivers large-scale refit of North Shields prawn trawler The under-10m trawler Blueye BH 453 returned to North Shields on completion of a major refurbishment project carried out by two well-known Bridlington companies, electrical specialist SE Marine and JD…

  • NFFO calls for talks on under-10m e-catch reporting

    NFFO calls for talks on under-10m e-catch reporting

    15th April 2019

    Delay plans to allow practical questions to be answered The NFFO says proposed plans to introduce compulsory electronic catch reporting for all under-10m vessels in England and Wales should be delayed to allow discussions with fishermen on the details of…

  • Under-10 e-catch reporting soon

    Under-10 e-catch reporting soon

    4th March 2019

    Consultation on U10 e-catch reporting Start in England and Wales by summer 2019 Mandatory electronic catch recording for the under-10m sector has moved a step closer with the launch of a consultation on the scheme by DEFRA/MMO and the Welsh…

  • Anger at megatrawlers

    Anger at megatrawlers

    8th October 2018

    NUTFA slams Channel pelagic supertrawlers Call for bass catch inspections The New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association (NUTFA) is writing urgently to the UK government to highlight inshore fishermen’s anger over the impact of some of the biggest trawlers in the…

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