The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
The MPA Fishing Coalition, the body established to ensure that the fishing industry has a voice as the UK Government establishes a network of marine protected areas, faces a busy year-end.
6 December 2010
29 November 2010
The apparent failure of cod recovery measures applied to the Irish Sea demersal fisheries since 1999 to make headway in rebuilding the cod stocks raises fundamental questions about the approach applied by the Commission and the Council of Ministers.
The International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
26 November 2010
The Commission seems to have lost its way on discards. Although the rhetoric is still there - condemning the waste involved in the many hundreds of thousands of tonnes that are discarded each year
15 November 2010
ICES reviews its stock assessment models
The body set up by the UK fishing industry to ensure that the fishing industry’s voice is heard as a network of marine protected areas is established in UK waters, has seen a surge of membership from other EU member states
19 October 2010
For as long as total allowable catches and days-at-sea restrictions are fixed at the December Council of Ministers, it will remain important for the NFFO to work to ensure that those decisions are the best possible for the fishing industry.
15 October 2010
The Government’s cull of quangos is likely to carry huge implications for the way that Natural England will operate in future.
13 October 2010
The inevitable and understandable fear in the fishing industry at present is that the establishment of an “ecologically coherent network of marine protected areas” will result in the displacement of fishing vessels from their customary fishing grounds
8 October 2010
NFFO President Davy Hill and Assistant Chief Executive Dale Rodmell visited ports in the South East on 6th October covering Selsey, Brighton and Hastings.
7 October 2010
The new Control Regulation was forced through the Council of Ministers in October 2009 to beat the arrival of co-decision making.
Leaders of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation and the NFFO met recently in London to agree joint positions in preparation for the autumn negotiations.
4 October 2010
European Commissioner Maria Damanaki heard recently from a range of marine interests on the need for an approach to marine spatial planning that strikes the right balance between coordinating competing offshore activities, whilst at the same time avoiding adding further complex layers of bureaucracy.
The Dolphin Cafe adjacent to Peterhead fish-market recently provided the venue for informal but important discussions between the UK Fisheries Minister and the two UK national fishing federations, NFFO and SFF, over fish and chips.
28 September 2010
The North Sea Regional Advisory Council is well through its programme of port visits to discuss its draft long-term management plan for nephrops with vessel operators in the prawn fishery.
20 September 2010
Fisheries scientists at the recent seminar on the state of European fish stocks, in Brussels, drew attention to the “strong correlation” between the dramatic fall in KWdays used by the North Sea demersal fleets and a similar downward trend in fishing mortality (F) since 1999.
13 September 2010
At its recent Annual General Meeting in York, the NFFO elected its new President, Kilkeel Skipper Davy Hill
4 September 2010
At a major seminar on European fish stocks held recently in Brussels, organised by the European Commission and opened by Commissioner Damanaki, scientists and officials highlighted a number of positive stock trends that suggest that European stocks are rebuilding rapidly.
27 August 2010
The MPA Fishing Coalition, of which the NFFO is a core member, has continued its important role of holding Government and its statutory advisors, Natural England and JNCC, to account.
26 August 2010
The latest batch of European marine sites includes designation of the controversial site in Lyme Bay.
20 August 2010
The reintegration of under-10 metre vessels into the mainstream quota management system
A ground-breaking meeting involving representatives from all sides of the fishing industry has made significant progress in addressing the quota problems faced by the under 10m fleet.
11 August 2010
The NFFO’s annual general meeting for 2010 will be held, in York, on 6th September.
2 August 2010
The NFFO in collaboration with the North Sea Regional Advisory Council and other Fishermen’s representative bodies are again running the North Sea Stocks Survey that invites fishermen to contribute their knowledge on the status and trends in stocks subject to TACs.
