The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is accepting applications for projects that support domestic sales of locally-caught fish and shellfish from now to Monday 11th May under a a new grant…
The controversy over the Catch App rolled out by the UK authorities for small-scale fishermen to declare landing figures continues. According to the MMO, improvements have been made to the…
The Coastal PO is calling all UK under 10 metre fishermen to register their experience of using the new CatchApp for logging catches. ‘We have received only complaints and have…
The skipper and owner of Irish trawler Ocean Venture II S-121 have been fined a total of £55,842.47 at Exeter Magistrates Court for fisheries offences in a prosecution brought by…
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has announced the appointment of Tom McCormack CBE as its new Chief Executive Officer. He joins the MMO from the Department of Work and Pensions,…
A phased introduction of catch recording for the English and Welsh under 10 metre fleets begins next month, and the decision to implement this in stages is one of the…