The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
The new EU Control Regulation is moving rapidly towards adoption by the Council of Ministers in October, raising fears that this hectic timetable will result in a botched job.
10 August 2009
30 July 2009
The NFFO played a full role in a major meeting organised recently by the European Commission to hear the annual scientific advice on the stocks and to prepare for the Commission’s proposals for next year’s TACs and quotas.
27 July 2009
The recent conclusion of the long-running court case about fish landings in Newlyn, has brought the use the Serious Organised Crime Agency, for fisheries offences, into the spotlight.
In an overview given to a major consultative meeting on the Scientific Advice on European fish stocks, held recently in Brussels, a senior ICES scientist stated that most European fish stocks can be categorised as being broadly stable.
22 July 2009
“Overfishing” is a widely used phrase, especially in the media. But it doesn’t always mean the same thing.
13 July 2009
Shifting goal posts and weak assessments cripple ICES advice
3 July 2009
A joint delegation from the NFFO and the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation met recently with the Migration Advisory Committee at the Home Office
The process of establishing Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2010 has begun with the publication of ICES scientific advice and a statement from the Commission which outlines the approach it will be adopting when it comes to make its proposals around November.
26 June 2009
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.
24 June 2009
Real time closures are now established as a significant feature of the Cod Recovery Plan.
An NFFO delegation met recently with Defra officials and the Shellfish Association of Great Britain to discuss shellfish policy.
11 June 2009
The NFFO recently shared a platform with European Fisheries Commissioner, Joe Borg at an event organised by the influential European Policy Centre. The speech is reproduced below.
The new Home Office polices on the entry of non EEA nationals to the UK threatens to cause chaos in those parts of the UK fleet that are now heavily dependent on skilled fishermen from the Philippines.
8 June 2009
The current press excitement over the film The End of the Line raises two fundamental questions.
29 May 2009
The NFFO has written to the UK Fisheries Minister Hugh Irranca-Davies to reaffirm its opposition to effort control - and to reiterate its determination to secure its removal at the earliest opportunity.
26 May 2009
An NFFO delegation recently met the MSC at its London headquarters.
19 May 2009
The two national federations, the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations and the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, met in recently in Glasgow to confer on the case they are jointly building to address the industry’s serious misgivings about where the EU cod recovery plan is taking the fleet.
24 June 1960 – 10 May 2009
15 May 2009
It has been evident for some time now that the Scottish administration’s proposals for a separate quota and licensing system, on terms defined unilaterally in Edinburgh, and based around UK quota self-defined as “Scottish”, were going nowhere.
5 May 2009
One of the prestigious Buckland Lectures will this year be held to coincide with a meeting of the Federation’s Executive Committee.
29 April 2009
There are signs that the arguments put forward by the NFFO, Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation along with our allies in France and Ireland, have persuaded the Commission that it would be a mistake to include the Celtic Sea in the Cod Recovery Plan
27 April 2009
Under the Westminster Marine Bill and the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the government is legally committing itself to delivering a network of marine protected areas.
The recent spate of superficial and sensationalist stories appearing in the media has provoked the Federation into preparing a starter kit for journalists too lazy to make the effort to understand the fishing industry.
At its recent meeting in Paris the North West Waters Regional Council adopted the NFFO’s proposals for a new approach to fisheries science in the Irish Sea.
