Statutory guidance

Manage your fishing effort: Sole Recovery Zone 2025 to 2026

Detailed scheme rules and application forms to fish in the Sole Recovery Zone with regulated gears.

• From: Marine Management Organisation
• Published: 26 June 2014
• Last updated: 5 December 2024 — See all updates

Documents

Sole Recovery Zone rules

HTML

Sole Recovery Zone days at sea application form

PDF, 651 KB, 2 pages

Sole Recovery Zone Days at Sea: Apply to transfer days at sea

PDF, 131 KB, 3 pages

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Details

The following rules apply to the carriage and use of regulated gears in the Sole Recovery Zone (SRZ) for the 2025 to 2026 Management Year (which runs from 1 February 2025 to 31 January 2026), The SRZ Scheme applies to vessels of 10 meters and over in length. The rules apply in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Area VIIe (Western Channel).

Published 26 June 2014
Last updated 5 December 2024 + show all updates

1. 5 December 2024

   2025 update

2. 4 December 2023

   Dates updated to the new year (2024)

3. 1 December 2023

   Updating dates ahead of the New Year

4. 15 December 2022

   2023-2024 update

5. 16 December 2021

   Form updated: Manage your fishing effort: Sole Recovery Zone 2022 to 2023

6. 15 December 2021

   page updated to reflect changes going into 2022

7. 30 September 2021

   Page updated following changes in guidance regarding beam trawlers.

8. 31 December 2020

   Sole Recovery Zone rules updated for 2021

9. 10 December 2019

   Updated for 2020

10. 11 February 2019

    Text updated

11. 13 December 2018

    Text and form updated

12. 20 December 2017

    form updated

13. 20 December 2017

    2018 to 2019 rules added

14. 16 December 2016

    Rules updated

15. 17 December 2015

    Dates updated

16. 27 January 2015

    Sole Recovery Zone rules for the 2015 to 2016 management year changed

17. 17 December 2014

    Sole Recovery Scheme Rules for 2015 to 2016 added

18. 26 June 2014

    First published.