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How to export or move fish for human consumption from the UK.
Guidance on the technical conservation and landing obligation (discard ban) regulations applicable from 2022 onwards. Including how the rules apply, selling undersize fish, reporting requirements and quota management.
The licence sets out where you can fish, what you are not allowed to fish and the limits for the stocks you are allowed to fish and land.
The timeline illustrates how the assessment and approval process works once an application for a marine licence has been validated.
Map showing how England's inshore and offshore waters have been split into 11 marine plan areas.
Details of Minimum Conservation Reference Sizes (MCRS) in UK waters.
Why you need a marine wildlife licence if you are going to disturb a protected species, how to apply and how to report an incident.
Fees information for the different marine licences and associated work.
This guidance outlines the circumstances under which a marine licence may be required from the Marine Management Organisation.
Information on the current rules applicable to Bluefin tuna in UK waters.
Published June 2021 the South West Inshore and South West Offshore Marine Plans provides guidance for sustainable development from the border with Wales to the River Dart in Devon.
Opening times during the 2019 holiday period
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
Find out about funding available through the Infrastructure Scheme.
The Celtic Sea and Western Channel demersal Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) covers English and Welsh waters within ICES areas 7e, 7f, 7g and 7h.
Guidance to assist fishers understand how and when I-VMS will be delivered in English waters, how it may affect them, their responsibilities, and the steps they need to consider.
These are the Marine licence requirements for construction activities taking place within the Marine Management Organisation's jurisdiction.
This guidance outlines the circumstances under which a marine licence may be required from the marine management organisation.
New legislation (The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024) will make it a criminal offence for any recreational fishing vessel to target BFT in…
How to report marine pollution incidents, the response to an incident and how to get approval to use an oil spill treatment product.
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