The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
The NFFO salutes the UK’s oldest active fisherman, Bill Hocking from Looe in Cornwall, and past member of the NFFO’s Executive Committee.
16 August 2012
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.
Is the fishing industry the victim of double standards? We have become accustomed to offshore projects such as wind farms and aggregate dredging receiving planning consent based upon an official assessment that individual projects have minimal environmental impacts.
The European Commission has made a Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing specific conditions to fishing for deep-water stocks in the North East Atlantic (COM(2012) 371 final).
13 August 2012
The frustrations of dealing with two management bodies was a recurrent theme at the most recent NFFO/MMO meeting, held in the Federation’s offices, in York.
It's not difficult to understand the appeal for journalists on a day trip to the coast from London, of the story that the small -scale fishing fleet has been robbed of its birthright by "quota barons".
9 August 2012
The NFFO is pressing the UK Fisheries Minister taking advantage of an EU exemption from the requirement for vessels between 12m and 15m to fit satellite monitoring equipment.
6 August 2012
The frustrating experience of being told by government officials that their hands are tied by decisions taken years ago, has taught the NFFO a valuable lesson: the importance of being in at the start.
31 July 2012
Displacement Threat to Recovering Stocks in Western Waters
One wonders how long the corporate types at Greenpeace took to settle on the campaign slogan “Be a fishermen’s friend”.
16 July 2012
The Commission has made it clear that it is prepared to propose significant increases in TACs to address the current problems of TAC generated discards.
The European Commission has convinced itself, with the assistance of the European Court of Auditors, that publicly funded decommissioning of fishing vessels does not represent good value for tax payers’ money.
11 July 2012
It has become a commonplace, accepted in all quarters, that the Common Fisheries Policy is a big, unwieldy, unresponsive beast.
2 July 2012
The requirement for a register of quota holdings (FQAs*) in the UK has now become an absolute imperative, if only to quell the waves of almost hysterical speculation in the press and Parliament.
29 June 2012
Signs of a less dogmatic approach to the application of MSY in mixed fisheries may be emerging from the European Commission.
27 June 2012
The NFFO Executive Committee met recently in York to address the main issues currently confronting the fishing industry.
Defra has given the MPA Fishing Coalition a clear assurance that fisheries management measures that would ban fishing outright in so called reference area Marine Conservation Zones (MCZ) must be consistent with the legal requirements that fishing must be deemed to be damaging to the conservation features of an MCZ in order for it to be subject to limitation or a ban.
18 June 2012
The environmental NGOs' disappointing, although not altogether surprising, response to the Council of Ministers' agreement on a 'General Approach' to CFP reform last week in Luxembourg, was that it didn't go far enough, and the timetables were insufficiently demanding.
13 June 2012
The Council of Ministers reached political agreement on a ‘General Approach’ to CFP reform in the early hours of the morning of 13th June.
1 June 2012
Work on a long-term plan for the North Sea Nephrops fishery has reached a critical stage in the North Sea Regional Advisory Council.
29 May 2012
The Black Arts of media distortion are again moving to the fore, as CFP reform reaches an important staging post at the Council of Ministers in Luxemburg on 19th June.
28 May 2012
Regionalisation of the Common Fisheries Policy has moved centre stage since the NFFO (amongst others) advocated it, over a decade ago
25 May 2012
There is much to learn from the experiences of the UK and Scottish Marine Acts in taking account of the needs of fishing communities and the environmental consequences of changing marine use.
