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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.

Fragmented and United

8 December 2010

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.

Coalition Faces Period of Intense Activity

6 December 2010

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.

Irish Sea Recovery

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.

Flexibility and Functional Units

29 November 2010

The International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES)

Commission has Lost its way on Discards

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

Simplify the Science!

15 November 2010

ICES reviews its stock assessment models

French, Belgian and Irish Fishing Organisations join the MPA Coalition

15 November 2010

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

Priorities for the December Council

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.

Natural England Brought to Heel

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.

Displacement from Fishing Grounds

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

South East Ports Visits

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.

Update on the New Control Regulation/Detailed Rules

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.

Joint Approach Agreed Between Two Federations

7 October 2010

Leaders of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation and the NFFO met recently in London to agree joint positions in preparation for the autumn negotiations.

Round Table meeting with Commissioner Damanaki

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.

Dolphin Cafe Dialogue

4 October 2010

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.

Port Meetings Validate Long-term Plan

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.

Cause or Effect in Effort Control: A Fundamental Question for Cod Recovery

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.

NFFO Elects New Team for Challenges Ahead

13 September 2010

At its recent Annual General Meeting in York, the NFFO elected its new President, Kilkeel Skipper Davy Hill

European Fish Stocks: Positive Trends

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.

Holding Natural England to Account

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.

Coalition Responds to New European Marine Sites Announcement

26 August 2010

The latest batch of European marine sites includes designation of the controversial site in Lyme Bay.

The NFFO’s contribution to the discussions on the under 10m quota problem is reproduced below.

20 August 2010

The reintegration of under-10 metre vessels into the mainstream quota management system

Progress on Under-10m Front

20 August 2010

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.

NFFO AGM 2010

11 August 2010

The NFFO’s annual general meeting for 2010 will be held, in York, on 6th September.
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