The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
There is a paradox in the way that the present Government is using heavy duty, top-down legislation, inherited from the previous administration to establish a network of marine protected areas in UK waters.
25 February 2011
22 February 2011
The NFFO has written to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with some advice on how to take the Channel 4 Fight for Fish campaign forward and some pitfalls to avoid.
11 February 2011
The North East drift net fishery has come under sustained pressure from the powerful and well connected angling lobby for over 30 years.
7 February 2011
Commissioner Damanaki’s (if not necessarily DG Mare’s) enthusiasm for special treatment for small scale fisheries is well known.
Intense discussions between the NFFO and Defra over the shape of the days-at-sea regime for 2011/12 have yet to reach conclusion.
4 February 2011
One of the guiding principles insisted upon when the NFFO was established in 1977 was that it should maintain its integrity and independence by being financially independent of government or other large bodies which have agendas of their own.
31 January 2011
Regional Task Forces will tackle weak stock assessments
If the CFP fails to find a way to regionalise its decision-making it will drift into a decade of paralysis.
28 January 2011
Approaching the turn of last year the Irish Sea faced an appalling prospect.
21 January 2011
First discussions towards defining management measures for the Dutch sector of the Dogger Bank, the Cleaver Bank and Frisian Front were progressed at the FIMPAS workshop held in Den Helder, Holland, between 24th and 26th January.
17 January 2011
The first marine plan in covering much of UK waters in the southern North Sea will start its two year planning process from April.
Will Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall’s Fight for Fish campaign mark a turning point in the Common Fisheries Policy?
10 January 2011
This week sees the start of a major Channel 4 campaign focused on fish and fishing. In a series of TV programmes over the coming week celebrity chef big guns, Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal and Arthur Potts Dawson, each focus on some aspect of the fishing industry and of fish consumption, mixing campaigning zeal with practical recipes using underutilised species.
5 January 2011
The European Court of Auditors has instigated an investigation into fleet overcapacity within the CFP.
4 January 2011
At a recent meeting with the Lori Evans, Director General of DG Mare, the Commission’s fisheries directorate, the NW Waters RAC spelt out what it would like to see under a regionalised Common Fisheries Policy
It is a bald reality these days that, in making fisheries legislation, ministers will rarely stray far from the scientific recommendations.
2011 will be a crucial year for the fishing industry.
21 December 2010
“The only constant is change”
The fisheries for plaice and sole and other flatfish species are amongst the most valuable to us in terms of revenue, employment and supply of food to consumers in the EU.
The Council of Ministers meeting of December 2010 may come to be seen as the high-water mark of a technocratic approach to EU fisheries.
The body formed to provide the fishing industry with a voice on how marine protected areas are established in UK waters, the MPA Fishing Coalition, recently met with UK fisheries Minister, Richard Benyon.
11 December 2010
A major clash in Brussels over fisheries jurisdiction is looming in Brussels, which could have direct consequences for UK fisheries.
8 December 2010
Agreement with Norway on a reciprocal fisheries agreement for 2011 was reached at the end of a second round of talks in Bergen on the 3rd December.
The diversity of the NFFO’s membership is one of its most noticeable features. Our membership ranges from 60 metre freezer trawlers that operate in distant waters to small, inshore, beach-launched, boats - and every size in between.
