Statutory guidance

Variation issued: Saturday 1 January 2022

Updated 23 December 2024

1. Check your licence

It is your responsibility to check your licence documents before going to sea as licences can be changed at any time. The most up to date licences can be accessed on the understand your fishing vessel licence page.

The variations effective from 00:01 hours, Saturday 1January 2022 are as follows:

2. Quota Changes – U10m Licences

Affecting Non- sector Licence Category A 91/99

SPECIES	SEA AREA (AS STATED IN ANNEXE)	QUOTA FROM (TONNES)	QUOTA TO (TONNES)
Cod	North Sea	1.5t	3t
Haddock	North Sea	2t	2.5t
Haddock	VIIa	0.5t	1t
Hake	North Sea	0.5t	2t
Herring	IVab	30t	50t
Herring	VIIa	0.3t	0.5t
Herring	VIIe and VIIf	10t	15t
Nephrops	North Sea	30t	50t (quarterly)
Plaice	VIIf and VIIg	4t	5t
Pollock	VII	10t	30t
Saithe	North Sea	0.1t	0.5t
Saithe	VII, VIII	0.5t	1t
Turbot and brill	North Sea	0.5t	1t
Whiting	North Sea	3t	4t
Whiting	VIIa	0.05t	0.1t
Small-Eyed Ray	VIIf&g	2t	1.5 t and to be included in the total catch for Areas VI & VII excluding VIId
Herring	IVc and VIId	300t	100t
Skates and rays	VIId	2t	1.5t
Mackerel	North Sea	10t	6t
Skates and rays	VI and VII (excluding VIId)	8t	6t
Sole	VIIa	3t	2t
Sole	VIIe	2.5t	1.5t
Sprats	VIId and VIIe	5.5t	1t

• Affecting the following Sector Licence types. Category A 91/1, 91/3, 91/5, 91/14, 91/18 and 91/18

Small-Eyed Ray

VIIf&g

2t

1.5 t and to be included in the total catch for Areas VI & VII excluding VIId

3. Quota Changes – O10m Licences

Affecting Licence Categories A (11/99), Category A Islands (12/99), Category B (31/99) and Category C (41/99).

3.1 NOTE: Quota changes are only applicable to the stocks listed on your licence category-specific annex that you are authorised to fish for.

SPECIES	SEA AREA (AS STATED IN ANNEXE)	QUOTA FROM (TONNES)	QUOTA TO (TONNES)
Angler	North Sea	0.5t	0.8t
Cod	North Sea	1t	1.2t
Haddock	VIIa	0.05t	0.1t
Haddock	VIIb-k	1.75t	2t
Hake	North Sea	0.5t	1.5t
Herring	VIIa	0.05t	0.1t
Herring	North Sea	0t	25t
Horse mackerel	West coast	0.5t	0.1t
Lemons and witches	North Sea	1t	2t
Mackerel	North Sea	1t	4t
Nephrops	VII	5t	6t (quarterly)
Nephrops	North Sea	25t	30t (quarterly)
Plaice	VIIf and VIIg	1t	1.5t
Pollock	VII	2t	3.5t
Sole	VIIa	0.05t	0.1t
Whiting	VIIa	0.05t	0.1t
Angler	VII	8t	6.5t
Hake	Western	15t	10t
Herring	IVc and VIId	100t	75t
Nephrops	West of Scotland	10	5t (quarterly)
Plaice	VIId and VIIe	9t	8t
Plaice	North Sea	6t	5t
Saithe	North Sea	0.2t	0.1t
Skates and rays	VIId	2t	1t
Skates and rays	VI and VII (excluding VIId)	20t	5t
Small-Eyed Ray	VIIf&g	2t	1.5t and to be included in the total catch for Areas VI & VII excluding VIId
Sole	VIIe	1.7t	0.7t
Whiting	VIIb-k	3t	2.5t

Affecting the following Sector Licence types:

• Category A 11/1 11/1, 11/2, 11/3, 11/4, 11/5, 11/7, 11/8, 11/9, 11/10, 11/14, 11/17, 11/18, 11/19, 11/20, 11/25, 11/26 and 11/29.
• Category A Pelagic 17/2, 17/3, 17/25 and 17/26.
• Category B 3/12, 31/9 and 31/22.
• Category C 41/14 and 41/ 2

Small-Eyed Ray

VIIf&g

2t

1.5 t and to be included in the total catch for Areas VI & VII excluding VIId

4. Amendment to Licence Schedules

Affecting Under 10m Licence Category A (91), Category A Producer Organisation (91PO) and Category A Limited (94):

• Updated bass conditions at paragraph 8.

Affecting Over 10m Licence Category A (11), Category A Islands (12), Category A Pelagic (17), Category B (31) and Category C (41):

• Updated bass conditions at paragraph 12.
• Scallop effort days set to 65 for Q1; 00:01hrs 01 January 2022 – 23:59hrs 31 March 2022.
• Crab effort days set to 160; 00:01hrs 1st January 2022 – 23:59hrs 31 December 2022.