The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
What are we to make of the astounding sums of money put at the disposal of environmental lobby groups working on European fisheries issues by the charity Oak Foundation?
26 November 2012
As EU and Norway and then next month the EU Council of Ministers, stand poised to depart from central pillars of the Cod Plan it is timely and perhaps instructive to take a look at the past decades’ efforts to rebuild the cod stocks in European waters.
23 November 2012
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations has expressed its strong opposition to suggestions emanating from large Scottish pelagic ship owners that mackerel quota should be redistributed away from the hand-line fishery in the South West.
20 November 2012
There is something frequently missing in the media coverage of fishing’s environmental impact. The absence of an adequate balancing appreciation of fishing’s contribution to the nation’s food security is a glaring omission.
15 November 2012
MPA Fishing Coalition Calls for Agreed Protocols
13 November 2012
Fish, Fishermen and General Public Let Down by the Political Process
7 November 2012
The NFFO Executive Committee met recently in Newlyn to review the Federation’s policies in the run up to the December Council and beyond.
23 October 2012
In the sometimes fractious exchanges within the fishing industry about quota shares, sight is sometimes lost of the big picture: the Total Allowable Catches.
20 October 2012
The fishing industry is more reliant than ever before on fisheries scientists to defend it from policies influenced by the exaggerations, superficiality and sheer nonsense of some of the more extreme green NGOs and their allies in the sensationalist media.
8 October 2012
Progress by the North Sea RAC in developing a long term management plan for the nephrops fishery in the North Sea has been recognised by the Commission’s Director General in a letter to the RAC.
5 October 2012
The future of the regional advisory councils was discussed recently in Brussels at an landmark meeting attended by the Director General for EU fisheries.
2 October 2012
The annual seminar organised by the Commission which marks the beginning of the autumn negotiations on TACs and quotas for the coming year was held recently in Brussels.
1 October 2012
The BBC has suggested that the Sunday Times front page headline Only 100 Adult Cod Left in the North Sea, when the correct answer is something like 21 million, may be the most inaccurate headline in history?
The NFFO’s Executive Committee met recently in York and high on the agenda were preparations for the crucial autumn negotiations which lead to decisions will shape the industry’s fishing opportunities for next year.
24 September 2012
The network of MPAs in UK waters is to include sites selected for the protection of birds.
The NFFO has played its part in successfully fighting off Council redevelopment plans for Bridlington harbour. The poorly drafted plans posed a threat to Bridlington's position as the premier shellfish port in England.
21 September 2012
The Lisbon Treaty has given the European Parliament a central role in agreeing legislation under the Common Fisheries Policy. As a result, the European fishing organisations, including the NFFO, are adapting to the new political realities
19 September 2012
The Sunday Times announced on its front page that there are only 100 adult cod left in the North Sea.....
18 September 2012
The Sunday Times has been running a hostile campaign which systematically presents a distorted, inaccurate, and one-sided view of fishing.
11 September 2012
A delegation of NFFO shellfish interests met recently with senior Defra officials to discuss the apparent logjam on shellfish policy.
5 September 2012
The NFFO joined ANIFPO in welcoming representatives of the Northern Ireland Assembly on 3rd September to visit the fishing industry in Kilkeel and explore the issues affecting it as the Northern Ireland Marine Bill progresses through the assembly.
16 August 2012
The NFFO salutes the UK’s oldest active fisherman, Bill Hocking from Looe in Cornwall, and past member of the NFFO’s Executive Committee.
In pandering to a noisy angling lobby in South Wales, the Welsh Assembly has abandoned any pretensions it may have has to a rational, proportionate, or science based approach to fisheries policy.
14 August 2012
We are wholly opposed to the suggestion that bass should be incorporated into the system of TACs.
