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November effort statistics 2024
The 2023 report on the UK commercial fishing industry including statistical tables and underlying data sets.
1. Key Statistics - Fleet In 2023 there were 5,418 UK registered fishing…
1. Key Statistics - Landings In 2023, UK vessels landed 719 thousand…
1. Key Statistics - Effort Since 2005, fishing effort (kW days at sea) by…
1. Key Statistics - Trade The UK is a net importer of fish. The UK’s crude…
Non-Quota species uptake by UK vessels in EU waters - November 2024
Non-Quota species uptake by UK vessels: Provisional dataset
UK and foreign vessels landings by UK port and UK vessel landings abroad: provisional data
This project seeks to understand the existing structures in the UK fishing sector and explores how to support and enable fisher-to-fisher engagement, in order for the MMO to increase participatory capacity and move towards i…
Triennial update on delivery of measures towards the recovery of European eel and 3 yearly stock assessment across UK river basin districts.
This project seeks to explore methods that can be used to improve the MMO’s understanding of the networks within fishing communities to support fair and inclusive collaborative fisheries management and participatory approach…
This project provides a logic framework to support the MMO’s strategic planning for fisheries and to guide improved monitoring and evaluation in achieving the objectives of the Fisheries Act.
This project outlines the importance of facilitation, not only as a crucial step in trialling co-management examples in fisheries management but to improve how the MMO engage with the fishing industry and ultimately work tow…
Non-Quota species uptake by UK vessels in EU waters - October 2024
October effort statistics 2024
This project seeks to improve the way MMO engages with the fishing industry by analysing the barriers to engagement with the government through a behavioural approach.
This is an ad-hoc statistical release of Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) and Landings data.
This project responds to an evidence gap on the lack of high spatial resolution fishing activity data for the under-12 meter (<12m) fleet.
Non-Quota species uptake by UK vessels in EU waters - September 2024
Non-Quota species uptake by UK vessels: Provisional data
This project provided recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of methods MMO use to engage with local planning authorities (LPAs) on using marine plans in their decision-making.
This project is a process evaluation for the development of Lyme Bay fisheries management measures for ICES Area 7.e sole, looking specifically at engagement and how these measures were developed.
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