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The MMO, whose remit includes enforcing EU and UK fisheries regulations in English waters, is providing insight into its work in order to give industry as much certainty as possible and to help them prepare for changes. In response to discussions in the media and online, this guidance is being published to clarify that current fisheries laws will continue to apply immediately after the UK leaves the EU.youtube.com The full Landing Obligation (discard ban) will come into force on 1 January 2019.youtube.com This means that for all fisheries, species with catch limits (quota species) will have to be landed and counted against quota. This includes undersize fish.
There are exemptions to this requirement subject to certain conditions. These are based on either the ability of the fish to survive capture and release ("survivability"); or on the difficulty of preventing capture of unwanted fish; or disproportionate cost of handling, (de minimis). For example, it is proposed that from 1 January 2019 plaice will be able to be discarded in certain fisheries due to its ability to survive capture and release. In the new regulations there are also requirements for vessels to use more selective fishing gear. The UK is also working with the European Commission and other Member States to develop other ways of limiting choke for the most high risk fisheries.
These are likely to be agreed at December Council when the annual Total Allowable Catch and Quota Regulation is finalised. The regulations are currently in draft form and may be subject to change. The MMO will issue more detailed guidance once the regulations for 2019 are finalised. However, if you want to view the draft recommendations as they stand currently, they are available here: North Sea, North Western Waters.youtube.com The technical conservation regulation is the legislation that aims to reduce the capture of juvenile fish and minimise environmental harm. The new draft technical conservation regulation is more streamlined that the original regulation.
It aims to simplify the rules. As explained in its compliance and enforcement strategy the MMO will provide guidance and raise awareness of the rules as a first step to achieving compliance. UK fishermen will still need to comply with the changes despite the UK leaving EU. This is because the Government will be bringing EU rules into UK law as ‘retained EU law’ and so existing fisheries arrangements will continue to operate in the period following the UK leaving the EU. Retained EU law will then be replaced in time with domestic legislation but until then the existing rules apply and will be enforced by the MMO and other UK fisheries administrations.
New European Union rules on fishing quotas could have a grave impact on the UK's fishing industry, a House of Lords committee has said - just a day before the new policy is introduced. Under previous rules, crews often discarded, into the sea, fish that took them over their quota for that species. But under the new policy, fishers must bring the full haul back to shore. This change is to stop fish being wasted. The legislation has been called badly designed by UK industry bodies. The House of Lords EU Energy and Environment sub-committee heard evidence that the legislation could mean fishermen hitting their annual quotas much earlier in the year and have to stop fishing. The committee was told this would be particularly problematic in mixed fisheries where it would be hard for boats to avoid catching a fish species for which they have a very low quota.
Once they reached their quota for a particular species, fishers would be forced to choose between halting operations for the rest of the year or breaking the law by continuing to fish for other species and discarding anything over quota. The committee also said it had worries about how the rules - which come into effect in full after a four-year phasing-in period - would be enforced. It said patrol vessels would only be able to cover a small percentage of boats, creating a temptation for fishers to break the rules. Barrie Deas, the chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations, said the rules were badly designed and would result in boats having to stop fishing for long stretches after reaching quotas on specific species.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it was working with the industry to address the challenges posed by the new sustainable fishing policy. The committee is due to publish its report on the implementation and enforcement of the EU landing obligation in February. DemonTree I don't think it's the new rules that are badly designed! It's pretty damn stupid having quotas if it doesn't stop the fish being caught but just means they are wasted. Commenting for this story is now closed. If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!
Describing the trip as "man therapy" Bob and Paul bond over barbel and talk about tench as they help each other through the tough process of coming to terms with heart disease. Across six episodes, fishing fanatic Paul leads novice angler Bob on a hunt for tench in Norfolk, barbel in Hertfordshire, rainbow trout in Derbyshire, pike and even sea trout in Dorset. At 59 Bob is best known as half of Reeves and Mortimer, the comedy act he created with Vic Reeves, while Paul, 60, is the comedy writer and actor at the heart of The Fast Show. He also created the Smashey and Nicey radio DJ characters with Harry Enfield. Bob had a five-hour triple heart bypass operation in 2015 and has stents in his arteries to reduce the likelihood of a heart attack, while Paul also has stents fitted after heart problems.
With a year to go before Brexit, Dean Kirby visits Grimsby to see how the town’s fishing industry is preparing to leave Europe.youtube.com Photographs by Mark Pinder.youtube.com On the windswept dock wall at Grimsby, the crew of the Sweetwaters fishing boat are tending to a stack of lobster pots that were badly knocked about when the Beast from the East came rampaging across the North Sea. But today, as the crew prepares to slip away from the dock and head back out to sea, the boat’s owner Darren Kenyon of Fastline Shellfish is more worried about the Government’s strategy for leaving Europe than the weather.
The lifelong fisherman, whose boat is one of the last floating bastions of what was once a 700-strong Grimsby fishing fleet, was among 70 percent of people in North East Lincolnshire who voted to leave the EU. Thousands of fishermen voted to leave Europe, but I don’t think we’re going to get any help. People talk about the fish being scarce, There are plenty of fish in the sea, but British fishermen are the real endangered species. To them, the Government’s announcement that the UK will remain within the Common Fisheries Policy until 2020, the end of the transition to the post-Brexit era, feels like a betrayal. "I was quite excited about Brexit at first," Mr Kenyon tells i as he stands on the dock surrounded by lobster pots, ropes and tackle.
"People were waving at us from the shore as we sailed up the Humber in 2016. It was nice to see. "But the way the Government is going, I just can’t see them helping fishermen.youtube.com The relationship between Grimsby and the sea is deeply rooted in history.youtube.com The town, which is said to have been named after a Viking fisherman named Grim, was home to the world’s largest fishing fleet by the mid-twentieth century. Grimsby Town football fans event chant the word "fish" repeatedly from the stands in recognition of the importance of fish in their lives. The Common Fisheries Policy and the Government’s management of quotas and grants have also been blamed locally for forcing skippers to scrap their boats. Environmentalists claim fish are also moving farther north due to climate change.
"I’ve worked on the docks since I was 13," says Mr Kenyon who has fished both white fish and shellfish during his long career. "I’m 50 now. The dock used to be full of boats. You could buy anything down here - a new suit, a pair of shoes. We had three banks and a clinic which dealt with our fish filleting wounds. You could get the sack from your job in the morning and get a new job day or night. "The old men were tough. They would give you a heavy hand around the ear. But they were not picking on you.
They were trying to teach you - to keep you safe when you went to sea. I can’t believe where it’s all gone. "EU quotas have been the death of this industry. We can’t fish in our own waters any more and we’re getting by hand-to-mouth. Signs of change can be seen all around Grimsby docks beside the obvious dearth of trawlers. Away from the water in a hidden village of eerie streets, buildings that once employed thousands of men stand empty. On Fish Dock Road, along a row of boarded up shops, stands a solitary chandler’s store selling wellington boots and rigger gloves, which has been in business for five generations.
The owner, Fraser Taylor, says "hundreds" of fish merchants used to have their businesses along the road. Next door stands Solly’s Cafe, which is empty apart from the frilly net curtains in its dusty windows. The distinctive chimneys of former fish curing works can be seen among the surviving businesses. Brexit weighs heavily one the minds of the men who still work in these streets. "I still think voting to leave Europe was the right thing to do," says Steve Parkinson, a fourth generation fish seller in a nearby shop. "We can’t go back. "Fish used to be a cheap meal, but it’s expensive now. People will still eat it, but it will never be cheep again.
Alan Armour, a wholesale fish merchant, tells i that Brexit is "becoming a farce". "We’re going to get nothing," he says. "It’s an absolute joke. What they said we were going to do and are actually doing are different things.youtube.com But figures show that, while fishing has declined in Grimsby, other aspects of the industry have survived and even thrived. They also highlight the huge complexities of Brexit. In 2016, just 31 UK boats landed fish or shellfish at Grimsby. Only one tonne of fish was landed here by UK registered vessels in January this year, along with 163 tonnes of shellfish.
But the large fish market at the dock, where merchants gather around tubs boxes of fish at an early morning auction, remains one of the most important in Europe and handles around 20,000 tonnes of fresh fish a year. Around 90 per cent of that fish comes not from Grimsby boats but from Iceland or Norway, while some of it comes from Peterhead by road.youtube.com The decision to continue with the Common Fisheries Policy will bring cold comfort to coastal fishing communities that were promised a revival of their fortunes. Data from industry body Seafish also shows that the fish processing industry in Humberside is at its biggest in a decade, with 4,900 full-time equivalent jobs. Supermarket giant Morrisons has its fish processing plant here, producing more than 250 tonnes of fish a week, while Grimsby has been home to Young’s seafood for more than 50 years.
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