
Need Should be Basis For Additional Quota
The NFFO has written to the Secretary of State, George Eustice, arguing that additional quota…
The National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations
The NFFO has written to the Secretary of State, George Eustice, arguing that additional quota…
The NFFO has written in strong terms to the Prime Minister about the Government's portrayal of…
With exports of fish and shellfish into the EU impeded by a range of border issues, Defra has…
Annual Fisheries Agreements for 2021: Trilateral and bilateral negotiations have now…
Calais and Boulogne: despite the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the UK and the EU…
As the old year faded away, and the new year dawns, we lick our wounds and take stock of the tasks…
Some of the adjectives that will be in circulation within the UK fishing industry today, to…
The NFFO weighs up the deal agreed between the UK and the EU on Christmas Eve How, when on…
The NFFO will be publishing its reaction shortly to the deal concluded in Brussels this…
The NFFO reiterates what is at stake as negotiations with the EU reach the inevitable endgame
Negotiations remain on knife-edge
A huge miscalculation lies at the heart of the EU’s negotiating strategy as we now head,…
The weekly Fathom Podcast, hosted by NFFO member organisation, the Cornish Fish Producers…
The NFFO takes stock of the negotiations for a UK/EU fisheries deal, after the remaining issues…
We are sad to learn that our friend and colleague, and General Manager of NFFO Services Limited,…
Volunteer skippers fishing out of England and Wales are needed to contribute to fisheries data…
The top team at the Marine Management Organisation use the Fathom broadcast to discuss…
The NFFO responds to an article in the Irish Times that asserts the UK position in negotiations…
The Fisheries Bill, after a long and at times tortuous journey, has successfully completed its…
As negotiations between the UK and the EU on a future partnership agreement move into their…
The legal and political realities confronting the EU on fishing have been finally…
By creating an artificial linkage between fisheries and a trade agreement, the EU has ensured…
Andrew Locker has moved into the NFFO hotseat as Chairman of the NFFO, and Andrew Pascoe has been…
We live in momentous times. 2020 will be remembered as the year of the pandemic. It will also…
Barrie Deas Chief Executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s…
The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation and the National Federation of…
The ninth round of negotiations with the EU has now concluded. It was followed by a weekend call…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisation has welcomed the signature of a…
Mature and responsible fisheries management frequently requires necessary trade-offs…
Negotiations with the EU have bounced back centre stage, as time to reach an agreement of the…
Elspeth Macdonald and Barrie Deas, chief executives of the Scottish Fishermen’s…
It is difficult to glean much from the official statements made by the EU and the UK after each…
The Shellfish Industry Advisory Group established in November last year has made substantial…
A recent teleconference organised by Defra, was held to discuss the contents of the Benyon…
Of the eight objectives included in the Fisheries Bill, five of them relate to fishing…
Government, the national fishing federations and the Fishermen’s…
A small delegation from the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations met…
The latest version of the FishSAFE unit, the essential safety information tool for fishermen…
As the Fisheries Bill passes through the House of Lords, amendments have been laid down that…
One of the benefits of leaving the Common Fisheries Policy will be the potential to rethink and…
The government-sponsored Benyon Review, and its all-out advocacy for banning fishing in a new…
The delayed report from the Conference on the Future of Inshore Fisheries has been published…
The NFFO, with the support of Nathan de Rozarieux and the Fishmongers Company, has produced…
Some parts of the UK fleet have been able to fish on through the coronavirus emergency, bringing…
Successfully involving the fishing sector and stakeholders in decision-making over the…
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on merchant seafarers, fishers and their…
After last week’s round of negotiations, Michel Barnier singled out fisheries as one of…
Detailed advice has been provided by the MMO on accessing the Government’s financial…
Statement by the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
£10 million fund for England’s fishing and aquaculture sectors announced. More…
After intense political activity, and in some quarters mounting despair, the Government has…
The NFFO has continued to ratchet up political pressure on the Government for a financial…
COVID-19 has resulted in the closure of fish markets and the UK restaurant trade is now at a…
We are very sad to hear that Bill Hocking, fisherman from Looe in Cornwall, has died. Mixed…
Frustration is mounting across those parts of the fishing industry impacted by the…
National Federation of Fishermen's Organisanisations Covid-19 support package for the…
Pressure is mounting on the UK Government for a support package for the fishing industry in…
We have been informed that the process of compensating salmon fishermen for the early closure…
Follow the link below to a summary of the support that is available to the fishing industry as at…
The findings of acoustic seal deterrent trials undertaken in an inshore gill net fishery have…
Use this scheme if you're self-employed or a member of a partnership and have lost income due to…
The immediate issue confronting the fishing industry, as the covid-19 virus crisis takes grip…
It is widely acknowledged that the UK Government’s package of financial support to…
Until yesterday, provision for the self-employed was the biggest gap in the UK…
An announcement is expected within the next 24/48 hours on package of support that will help…
In compliance with the Government’s instructions to limit attendance at workplaces,…
The Government has reacted to the potential health and economic damage caused by the pandemic,…
A joint fishing sector/government action group has been formed to work on urgent measures to…
Dialogue has begun between the NFFO and the Government on how best to mitigate the impact of the…
The recently formed Shellfish Industry Advisory Group met recently in London for its second…
The UK’s new status as an independent coastal state was widely recognised at a recent…
The tectonic plates of European and internal UK politics are shifting. One consequence of this…
The EU’s negotiating mandate for the future relationship with the UK has been…
The MMO is introducing a mobile phone-based catch app for recording catches from the under 10…
The fishing industry, and the public generally, are much more conscious than earlier…
The Independent has published an article on what the NFFO would consider a good outcome from the…
It may be a coincidence of timing but the day after the NFFO/SFF piled on the pressure with a major…
An “incredible level of support” for the fishing industry, was expressed at an…
In an industry that has experienced many momentous years and critical turning points, 2020…
The NFFO Team attend the the UK's Last December Council
After three rounds of talks with Norway, probably two more than necessary, during which the…
The election of a Conservative government, with a solid majority, means that the passage of the…
A final meeting with senior Defra officials, before government and industry delegations head…
North Sea cod is regarded by many as an iconic stock. After the gadoid outburst* in the 1960s and…
Shellfish interests from across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands met…
The NFFO has today, launched its fishing manifesto which consists of three key themes;…
One of the few bright spots in the depressing downturn of the North Sea cod stock has been the way…
Leaving aside the possibility of a hiccup in these politically turbulent times, it is now…
A report, recently published by ICES, marks an important milestone in the incorporation of…
HM Government has published a checklist for fishing vessels in the event that the UK leaves the…
An industry-led initiative to focus attention on the future management of our inshore…
Defra have consulted on how any additional quota, obtained as the UK renegotiates its…
The Future of Our Inshore Fisheries Conference will be held in London on 8th/9th October. Your…
A new £10 million fund designed to stimulate innovation in the seafood sector to help…
Disappointment is almost inadequate as a term to describe the news that once again the iconic…
A seminar in Brussels, organised recently by the European Commission, was held to take stock of…
A series of meetings between regulators and the fishing industry, to discuss the…
The political profile of the fishing industry stands at its highest point since the Cod Wars in…
The NFFO’s members span all sizes of vessel and so must be scrupulously fair when it comes…
An evidence-based approach and good location choice continues to be critical to the success of…
It’s early days for the landing obligation, given the magnitude of the changes…
We liked this antidote by Sustainable Fisheries UB to George Monbiot’s “wilful…
Fisheries Minister, Robert Goodwill, will address the industry at the NFFO’s annual…
The NFFO backs the need for improved catch reporting but says the Government’s proposed…
At a critical juncture in the Brexit process, around 70 parliamentarians gathered yesterday…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations has elected its next Chairman.
As the Government is poised to extend the use of vessel monitoring systems (VMS) across the…
Advice on preparing for the introduction of International Maritime Organisation (IMO)…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations and Dutch fishing associations…
The dangers of one-dimensional fisheries management.
Both sides of the Christmas break have seen intense activity at Westminster as the Fisheries…
The last Fisheries Council in which the UK will participate as an EU member state concluded in…
December Council. Despite a four-year phase-in, it seems highly unlikely that the…
The December Council of Ministers will not only be the last in which the UK participates but one…
The EU landings obligation comes fully into force on 1st January 2019 and will then apply to all…
The Government is pulling out all the stops on fishing ahead of Tuesday’s critical vote…
The Withdrawal Agreement and Political Statement on the UK’s future relationship with…
Like many others, we are studying the text of the draft EU/UK withdrawal agreement to…
Defra is consulting on a proposal to require all vessels below 12 metres in length to fit and…
Risk & Policy Analysts (RPA) Ltd have been commissioned by Defra to carry out work on the…
and a discussion of fishing post-Brexit, featured heavily on BBC Farming Today recently.
As the UK leaves the EU and therefore the Common Fisheries Policy, this Bill is an important…
The NFFO and the Scottish Fishermen’s Federations, recently joined forces for a lobby…
A consensus seems to be emerging that bass could be excluded from the landings obligation when…
The recent clashes in the Channel between UK and French fishing vessels over scallop grounds…
Thousands of flags and wheelhouse stickers in fishing ports across the country are delivering…
A new project is underway to help improve advice on ways to prevent seals from taking fish…
The Government has published its long-awaited White Paper on Fisheries. Sustainable…
The NFFO’s new Chairman, Cornish fisherman, Andrew Pascoe, has said that he is…
At a recent meeting of the North Sea Advisory Council, the European Commission made the…
The Federation recently held a lobby day in Parliament to ensure that fishing remains a…
The appointment of Andrew Pascoe, as the new Chairman of the NFFO, was confirmed at a meeting of…
In just a few minutes I cease not only to be the Chairman of the NFFO, but also - for the time being,…
The NFFO’s AGM was this year held in Fishmongers Hall and was attended by UK Fisheries…
The NFFO’s East Anglian Committee has highlighted the need for a concerted effort to…
In a joint statement, Bertie Armstrong of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF)…
“We intend to Hold Government to Account on Brexit Commitments” A broad…
The fishing industry should not underestimate the threat from a new celebrity-led threat to…
JNCC and partners the Marine Management Organisation, Natural England, the National…
At its most recent meeting, the NFFO Executive Committee unanimously elected Newlyn…
The NFFO comments on where we are after the EU and UK have agreed arrangements for the 21 month…
The NFFO assesses the recent developments in Brussels
The full implementation of the landing obligation – the requirement to land all quota…
An NFFO delegation met recently with Secretary of State, Michael Gove, as the UK and the EU move…
Against the background of high level discussions on where fisheries powers should be located…
On the cusp of the next and crucial round of negotiations on the UK’s departure from the…
As the cabinet debates the UK’s detailed positions on Brexit, the NFFO spells out why…
The European Commission has recently presented its positions on fisheries to the EU 27 member…
Following a meeting between Dutch pulse fishermen and English inshore fishermen, just before…
We are very sad to hear the news that former NFFO Chairman and President, David Scott, has died.
NFFO President, Tony Delahunty, has been honoured in the Queen’s New Year List for his…
Over the next ten months, the shape of the UK’s future outside the EU should become…
This was a different kind of December Council in a number of important ways. Many delegations…
A strong NFFO team is present in Brussels for the December Council, which begins today in…
During the annual EU/Norway negotiations, this year in Bergen, the Norwegian delegation gave…
The EU and Norway delegations paused in their negotiations in Bergen for an annual reciprocal…
There are deep concerns within the fishing industry that an impasse between the European…
Whilst the Exit talks in Brussels judder forward, on both sides there is a great deal of activity…
The MMO has initiated a series of roadshows to increase the industry’s awareness of the…
Salmon fishermen on the Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire coast again face a period of…
The NFFO has welcomed new funding for projects to support Irish Sea fishing communities. The…
It is fair to say that impact on safety of fishing vessels at sea has not generally been to the…
A group of international scientists is currently looking into whether the fisheries in our…
Intense behind-the-scenes work is continuing both in preparation for the exit negotiations…
An NFFO delegation of 11 has recently returned from a study tour to Oslo and Bergen to learn in…
Sleeves were rolled up in London recently, as large teams from NFFO and DEFRA/Cefas got to grips…
Fisheries Minister, George Eustice, and a team of senior DEFRA officials used the Cornish…
As part of the preparation for the implementation of ILO C188, the first meeting of a special…
The latest scientific advice on spurdog points to the reintroduction of a bycatch allowance as…
“I told you so” is rarely an attractive phrase. But it is difficult to avoid a…
The Labour Party intends to engage much more closely with the fishing industry than it has done…
The top DEFRA ministerial team, led by Secretary of State, Michael Gove, met recently with key…
The Federation has today received the following letter from the Secretary of State, Michael…
Fishing will be a sort of litmus test for Brexit. As the UK begins the process of leaving the EU, we…
The Fisheries Bill contained in the Queen’s speech, along with the Government’s…
Over the summer maritime charities Seafarers UK and Cornwall Rural Community Charity (CRCC)…
The bewildering change of political fortunes over the last few weeks prompts the fair…
The Management of Fisheries within the UK Zone Post-Brexit
In a letter received before the announcement of the General Election, Fisheries Minister,…
A meeting of stakeholders, scientists and policy officials organised by the Commission to…
Relative Stability is the name given to the quota allocation keys adopted as part of the CFP in…
The Prime Minister’s announcement of a General Election on the 8th June may have caught…
The NFFO AGM was due to be held in Fishmongers Hall in London on 9th May, with Fisheries Minister…
The NFFO looks at claims that, post-Brexit, we could ditch quotas.
Each week, the NFFO shines a spotlight on a different aspect of its policy towards the…
The Financial Times has reported on manoeuvrings by European fishing groups in France,…
Each week, the NFFO shines a spotlight on a different aspect of its policy towards the…
ICES has replied to a special request from the European Commission asking its opinion on…
The Federation has written to Chancellor Philip Hammond, urging a rethink on his proposal,…
Notwithstanding the referendum result in 2014, in which the Scottish electorate rejected…
Following the NFFO’s meeting with Fisheries Minister, George Eustice, when the…
The UK media reported this week on a leaked document from the EU Parliament, explaining why…
The NFFO is encouraging fishing vessel owners to make use of the EMFF funds not only to gain early…
An NFFO delegation met with Fisheries Minister George Eustice, on Thursday 9th February to…
The NFFO has raised the issue of bass with Fisheries Minister George Eustice. At a meeting…
The Federation has written urgently to Fisheries Minister George Eustice calling for an…
We have been deeply troubled about the way that the fisheries concordat between the four…
The NFFO’s President, Tony Delahunty, has been appointed to sit on the Board of the…
Through its work with the North Sea Advisory Council, the NFFO has been centrally involved in…
The beginning of 2017 and the second year of the progressive implementation of the EU landings…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations, which represents fishermen in…
The December Council, as usual, generated a mixed bag of winners and losers. The underlying…
The NFFO is warning that the completion of the Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) network in…
The December Council remains (for the time being) an important date in the fishing calendar.
The NFFO has made it clear to Fisheries Minister, George Eustice, that the Commission’s…
The NFFO met recently with a large delegation from the Norwegian Seafood Alliance, which is…
The UK’s two main representative organisations for commercial fishermen – the…
The Common Fisheries Policy has been one of the least successful European policies. At its…
Star of Trawlermen Tales to answer questions about life on the waves during National Seafood…
The referendum on 23rd June, which decided that UK should leave the EU, represents a seismic…
Brexit Takes Centre Stage at Fishing Industry Debate
Royal Overseas League, 3 Park Place, St James, London, SW1A 1LR
Brexit will dominate the NFFO’s work this summer and for the foreseeable future. But…
Since the referendum on leaving the EU took place on 23rd June, the Federation has been actively…
The NFFO Executive Committee met on 12th July 2016 to discuss the implications of Brexit.
From any perspective, it is clear that the outcome of the EU referendum marks a seismic change…
North Sea Member States have now submitted their Joint Recommendation for the Discard Plan for…
The North West Waters member states have now submitted their Joint Recommendations to the…
IFCAs, the bodies responsible for managing inshore fisheries in England, are at risk of…
Responding to grassroots concerns from the quayside, the NFFO has joined forces with the MMO,…
For 37 years the Mid-Channel Conference has provided an international forum for Channel…
The log-jam caused by the long running, bad-tempered, jurisdictional dispute between the…
The Commission has recently adopted its long-awaited proposal for a new Technical…
The NFFO will not take a formal position on the forthcoming referendum on membership of the EU.…
The North Sea and North West Waters advisory councils have both published their advice on the…
The NFFO has offered to help those fisherman who have they been told that their licences will be…
The Common Fisheries Policy has to date been driven almost exclusively by conservation…
Scientists are doing a fantastic job in rubbishing the damaging exaggerations, distortions…
A briefing note for Co-legislators
Scientists now have a better understanding of the level of fishing activity that can be carried…
The NFFO has welcomed Defra’s continued measured approach to the designation of new…
In a letter to UK fisheries Minister George Eustice, NFFO President Paul Trebilcock, has…
The MPA Coalition which was formed to protect fishermen’s livelihoods to during the…
The EU landings obligation will come into force on 1st January 2016.
We are now in receipt of the definitive TAC and quota changes agreed at the December…
The Council of European fisheries ministers which decided the quota levels for 2016 was held in…
An NFFO team has arrived in Brussels for the Fisheries Council on 14th /15th December, where…
Many have predicted that the EU landings obligation - because of the top-down way it has been…
Everyone makes mistakes. A measure of intelligence is how quickly we learn from those…
In an open letter to the New Economics Foundation, the NFFO has challenged its misguided…
In advance of the annual round of quota negotiations, the National Federation of…
The main EU instrument governing the rules on technical conservation is a regulation dating…
Peter Caunter operates an under-10m vessel, netting off the south east coast. In this short…
The Commission’s proposal on bass – effectively a moratorium on catches –…
The Federation writes to the Minister on the need for a proportionate response to bass…
It is disappointing that your response fails to address the issues that we have raised. We drew…
A rather bureaucratic exchange of letters between Commissioner Vella and the Chairman of the…
The recently formed NFFO East Anglia Committee elected Steve Wightman, Lowestoft…
In March of this year Pew Charitable Trusts published a report Turning the Tide: Ending…
Jockeying for position in the run up to decisions on quotas for 2016 has already begun. The…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations has elected the leader of an east…
The National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations (NFFO) has contracted leading marine…
Following the release of new scientific research that shows the stocks of many commercial fish…
There is no sign that Guernsey authorities are minded to accept that they have a responsibility…
An NFFO team met recently with the Chief Executive of the Marine Management Organisation to…
Fisheries Minister, George Eustice, met recently in London with the NFFO’s Executive…
European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Praises Fishermen’s Role in…
Brixham fisherman, Steve Parker, has been elected as the Chairman of the NFFO’s South…
The NFFO recently participated in a major seminar in Roskilde, Denmark, organised by the…
The MMO has reported that a small number of fishermen on the Sussex coast are reporting catches…
The NFFO has prepared the following position paper on a sea bass conservation strategy. A…
We have been advised by the Minister's private office that DEFRA Oral questions have been set…
The EU landings obligation, enshrined in the CFP reform of June 2013, was the result of a toxic…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) is offering fishermen…
The ill-conceived European Commission proposal for a ban on small-scale drift nets is badly…
The NFFO’s annual general meeting will be held this year in York on Thursday 18th June.…
NFFO West Coast Committee Chairman, Ron Graham, has reaffirmed that what is needed for under 10…
The continuing fiasco through which vessels registered in Guernsey, with the collusion of the…
The SNP has made no secret of its ambition to take the lead in representing the UK in the Council of…
Normally the NFFO would not be overly concerned with management measures for the Baltic. Our…
A new regional committee, established to reflect the views of fishermen in East Anglia, came…
Earlier this year, the Commission introduced emergency measures for the bass fishery…
A workshop on efforts to reduce the seabed contact from trawl gears demonstrates the huge…
Two perfectly reasonable questions are being asked across the industry, as the deadline for…
It is almost two years since it was decided to introduce a degree of regionalisation into…
The NFFO recently held a dinner in a London fish restaurant to honour Austin Mitchell MP in…
Members of the UK fishing industry are being encouraged to get on board with a forthcoming…
Fishing Industry Takes To Twitter To Celebrate The Diversity and Sustainability Of The UK…
Europêche, the body representing 80,000 European fishermen, has teamed up with…
Industry calls for collaboration to protect valuable industry and livelihoods as new wind…
“The UK public are being misinformed - by certain core national media organisations,…
Defra has launched its second tranche consultation on 23 Marine Conservation Zones which is…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) has warned of…
The Executive Committee of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations…
We are sad to convey the news that Mervyn Mountjoy, who played a very significant role in…
With just 12 months to go before the introduction of a landing obligation, which will be the most…
The Federation looks forward to its work programme for 2015.
The 2015 deadline for quotas to be set in relation to maximum sustainable yield, where…
The MMO has published the rules for vessels operating in the cod recovery zone in 2015
Quota allocations for 2015 reflect stock recovery and acknowledge importance of local…
Ahead of the December Council of Fisheries Ministers, which begins today in Brussels, the NFFO…
The NFFO was recently part of a Europeche/EAPO delegation which met with the new…
The NFFO releases a statement saying an 'ad hoc' approach to a review is no longer satisfactory.
Ex-England Rugby star and TV personality, Matt Dawson, kick-starts the blog with his entry, in…
The NFFO has responded to a call to re-launch a government campaign to designate 127 marine…
The drive to reach maximum sustainable yield by 2015, the centrepiece of the new CFP, poses a…
The publication of the Commission’s proposals for TACs and quotas in 2015 opens a period…
Spurdog presents a particular challenge to fishermen, fisheries managers, scientists and…
Fishermen in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have expressed their mounting alarm that…
The commercial fisheries in the Bristol face imminent closure. This is not because of any…
NFFO Supports Marine Accident Investigation Branch’s Latest Safety Digest
A summit of fishermen, regulators, scientists and other stakeholders was held recently in the…
The early exhaustion of the skates and rays quota for the eastern channel (VIId) has raised the…
The NFFO has said that an obscure Brussels Committee which has expressed support for a blanket…
The NFFO has already expressed, as part of its response to a recent Defra consultation, its…
An important workshop was held recently in Dublin to make progress on the design and…
There is growing concern among the inshore fishing sector that some of the English IFCAs are…
An NFFO delegation took part in a recent meeting in Brussels, between European Commission…
The NFFO is to hold a major summit focused on the future direction of shellfish policy. The…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) is to sponsor Skipper…
As she approaches the end of her period of tenure as Fisheries Commissioner, Maria Damanaki is…
The NFFO has members right around the Norfolk coast with the biggest concentrations in Cromer,…
The National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations has expressed regret that offshore…
A very successful meeting of the ACRUNET (Atlantic Crab Resource Users Network) was held at the…
One of the many mysterious aspects of the Commission’s proposal for blanket ban on drift…
NFFO Response to Greenpeace/NUTFA Report "Championing coastal waters".
There are many reasons to be concerned about the way that the EU landings obligation is…
The President and Chairman of the NFFO have written a joint letter to Fisheries Minister George…
The last couple of weeks have been busy but not untypical for the NFFO.
The NFFO's West Coast Committee agreed at its meeting in Barrow on the 4th July to explore the…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations Strongly Supports Measures to…
Effort control (days at sea restrictions) as part of the EU Cod Management Plan, was dealt a…
The Executive Committee of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations met…
The reasons why the NFFO will use everything at its disposal to resist the blanket ban on drift…
The UK has made clear that it will throw its weight behind opposition to the proposed EU ban on…
A meeting in Dublin recently attended by the NFFO saw progress on a project at the cutting edge of…
Reference points: Dover (Kent) to Yarmouth ( Suffolk) For hundreds of years traditional…
The Commission’s hard-nosed response to concerns, expressed by the NFFO and others,…
The main challenge that I see at the moment is to keep the fishing industry onboard when the…
As the European institutions struggle to absorb the implications of last week’s…
Cut this crazy EU dragnet or our herring fishermen are lost
Coalition of fishermen, scientists and conservationists preparing to resist Commission…
National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations Announces New Chairman
The NFFO is delighted to have received words of appreciation for its recently published…
It is perhaps not surprising that Hugh’s Fish Fight is now mounting a rather desperate…
The incoming ban on the practice of discarding fish is high on the media agenda at the moment,…
The NFFO’s AGM was held in London on 7th May. As his final duty as Chairman, before being…
The NFFO Training Trust has announced that it will make £50,000 available for…
The NFFO considers that a breakthrough has been made in dealing with the mountain of issues…
The winners of a national limerick competition to find the best poems in celebration of life at…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) has reinforced its…
Confirmation of fishing’s relatively low ecological footprint was provided recently…
The Norwegian Fishermen's Association, Norge Fiskarlag, joined the Demersal Working Group…
The latest of several regional and port meetings organised by the MMO and NFFO to address…
To be held in the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, London on Wednesday 7th May, 2014.
Kayleigh Wyles – Researcher from Plymouth University
The MPA Fishing Coalition has flagged up its concerns about the sequence of designating marine…
Leading Chef and UK Fishing Industry Unite To Champion Hake as UK’s Current Most…
Say what you like about the EU Fisheries Council each December with its all-night circus. At…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) has welcomed last…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) is supporting one of the…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) has welcomed the…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) has welcomed…
A National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) delegation is scheduled to…
Midnight January 1st 2016 marks the embarkation date for the EU discards ban for our demersal…
The NFFO’s Executive Committee has given its full backing to the MPA Fishing Coalition.…
Analysis of potential chokes issues The available studies of the potential impacts of…
The much postponed EU Norway talks for a fisheries agreement for 2014 began in Bergen on Monday…
Inshore Fisherman, Tony Delahunty, writes to his local PM asking him to support the fishing…
Estimates Predict 4,000 Fishermen Affected by Storms, With Losses Running into Millions
It is not exactly unknown for the weather in January to disrupt fishing operations, even for the…
During a brief lull in the gales battering Cornwall last week, an important meeting was…
A debt of gratitude is owed by every single fisherman in the UK to George Traves, who has died…
The long awaited register of UK quota holdings has now been published jointly by the four UK…
The “short and brutal” Council which delivered TAC decisions for next year on…
Council Outcomes on Quota Allocations for 2014 Reflect Stock Recovery But More Needs to Be Done…
The enhanced role of the European Parliament in fisheries decisions and the new emphasis given…
Industry Calls for Cooperation to Avoid Fishing Displacement In the week the Government…
The North Sea RAC has suggested that the TAC for North Sea cod should be increased in order to…
Last week, George Monbiot, renowned environmental journalist for the Guardian, launched a…
Members of Clovelly Shellfishermen's Association making use of NFFO lifejackets. (PFDs)
The Government has announced details of the 27 marine conservation zones (MCZs) which will be…
All the signs are that George Eustice will be a competent and hardworking fisheries minister.…
A pilot project, which has provided 26 percent more quota to small boat fishermen as well as…
As Jonathan Leak, the Sunday Times’ Environment Editor, was the journalist who last…
The 4th ACRUNET (Atlantic Crab Resource Users Network) partner meeting was hosted by Centro…
A discards research project “Utilisation of discards in bait”, funded by…
Cooperation between the Fish Producers Organisation and the Ramsgate under-10metre Pilot…
The NFFO Executive Committee met recently to plan the Federation’s work programme for…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations has announced that…
Charlie Dawson was Chairman and then President of the National Federation of…
The West of Morecambe Fisheries Fund, established to support fishing communities operating…
Tweeting Trawlerman Tweets From The Deep to Show Reality of Life as a Fisherman
A blog written by fisherman David Warwick
Behind the current stand-off in the media between conservation lobbyists and Fisheries…
An exciting new commercial fishing show focusing on the industry in England and Wales is being…
David Warwick has been a fisherman since the day he left school more than 25 years ago.…
The Marine Management Organisation is taking a critical look at its own performance in a number…
Trawlerman to Show Harsh Reality of Life at Sea To Help Tackle Industry’s Negative…
The political decision by the Council of Ministers and European Parliament to place an…
Now that the shape of the reformed CFP is known in broad terms, and the UKAFPO legal challenge to…
Leading UK Fishing Body Says Dramatic Species Recovery Across North East Atlantic Is…
The diversity of the NFFO’s membership was reflected in the wide range of policy…
"The NFFO represents all sizes of vessel and regrets that the issue of quota distribution ended…
UK fishermen spanning large, offshore vessels as well as the small-scale fleet challenged the…
A row has broken out in recent weeks as Greenpeace criticized Fishing News’ editorial…
We are all aware, I think, that the fishing industry is approaching an important fork in the…
At our recent meeting on 11th June, MPAC raised a number of concerns with regard to the sequence…
The experience of NFFO members, not just the NFFO, would seem to suggest that the MMO team…
Annual General Meeting of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations to be…
It's more than a little strange for Greenpeace, in its attempts to demonise the NFFO, to claim…
The inshore fisheries in the South and South East of England are facing an unprecedented set of…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations response to…
A clearer idea of the substance of the reformed CFP emerging from the final stages of agreement…
A letter from Chief Executive of the NFFO, Barrie Deas, in response to the Observer’s…
Even before the ink is dry on the CFP reform, the first tentative steps towards regional…
At the request of the Norwegian Government, the NFFO has presented the fishing…
The NFFO is warning that industry must be given sufficient time to engage and present evidence…
There are few places in the UK that can equal the Yorkshire coast for the diversity of its fishing…
The agreement reached by the Council of Ministers in Brussels in the early hours of 15th May…
Leading names within the UK fishing industry have united to promote greater safety at sea by…
The Demersal Working Group of the North Sea Regional Advisory Council (NSRAC) travelled…
The Council of Ministers meeting in Brussels on 13th and 14th June could turn out to be a pivotal…
The NFFO West Coast Committee met in Morecambe on 9th May to address the wide range of issues it is…
The initiatives undertaken by the Anglo-North Irish Fish Producer Organisation, supported…
The NFFO has brokered an agreement between a number of producer organisations and under-10m…
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is apparently considering withdrawing from the Regional…
The Council of Ministers held in Luxembourg on 22nd April will not go down as one of the decisive…
An NFFO delegation has travelled to Luxembourg where EU fisheries ministers are discussing…
The International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES)’s most recent advice has…
The National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations (NFFO) has slammed claims by…
The MMO and NFFO have agreed to work together on safety, cost issues and the significantly…
Progress towards a broadly acceptable solution to the quota shortage problems facing parts of…
The unintended environmental consequences of fisheries displacement have been a central…
The NFFO Shellfish Committee met recently. NFFO representatives from Cornwall and Devon,…
We anticipated that having spent a significant amount of money on a media attack on the NFFO…
The National Federation of Fisherman’s Organisations (NFFO), the body representing…
Scientists from the Danish National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua) are conducting…
The MPA Fishing Coalition (MPAC) is warning that the time to respond to Defra’s Marine…
The NFFO continued its work at a recent meeting in Whitby.
Sustainable Fishing Plan for the Fladen Nephrops Fishery for the Scottish Whitefish…
On the day that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall led a march on Parliament, The National…
The NFFO’s South East Committee recently met in Shoreham to discuss a range of issues…
A packed meeting of fishermen from Rye, Sussex and Dungeness met on Friday with the NFFO Chief…
The National Federation of Fisherman's Organisations (NFFO), the body representing…
Marine Protected Areas will be the main focus of the next meeting of the NFFO South West…
“The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisation has welcomed the vote…
The National Federation of Fisherman’s Organisations (NFFO), the body representing…
Greenpeace poised to launch major attack on U.K. fishing organization, writes Cormac Burke,…
UK Fishing Body Says Inaccurate and Propaganda-based Research Runs Risk of Harming…
I write further to your confirmation, at the recent meeting of ACFA, that the Commission is…
The NFFO Executive Committee met recently in York to plan the Federation’s work…
The recent workshop held in York, organised by the NFFO and Cefas, on different ways of…
Something of a revolution in thinking about the CFP has taken place over the last decade. Ten…
There is something uniquely mean-spirited and vindictive about the campaign by one of the…
The Federation faces a busy year ahead. It is always difficult to quickly summarise all the…
The NFFO and Cefas are co-hosting a workshop for fishermen, scientists, managers and policy…
The NFFO and Subsea Cables UK, the umbrella body for the companies which lay subsea…
The year-end is often a time for self-reflection. In this vein, it could be said that the NFFO is…
President of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
The noticeable feature of the NFFO team in Brussels at the December Council is that reflects and…
For those of us who have attended too many December Councils, the meeting of EU fisheries…
Commentators are still assessing the significance of the vote in the European Parliament…
The Council of Ministers has today unanimously agreed to amend the parts of the EU Cod Plan which…
The MPA Fishing Coalition (MPAC) is calling on fishermen to make their voices heard in response…
It is slightly strange that the relationship between WFF and the fishing industry varies by…
An NFFO delegation, reflecting the diversity of the Federation’s regional and fleet…
Except in a single species fishery in urgent need of dramatic remedial action, zero TACs have no…
Drift Net Fishery Axed
The NFFO and the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association have met to address fears…
Ron Graham was re-elected as Chairman of the NFFO West Coast Committee at its meeting in…
The fishing industry has an overwhelming interest in a practical and workable Common…
A Federation delegation met recently with the All Party Parliamentary Fisheries Group to…
What are we to make of the astounding sums of money put at the disposal of environmental lobby…
As EU and Norway and then next month the EU Council of Ministers, stand poised to depart from…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations has expressed its strong…
There is something frequently missing in the media coverage of fishing’s…
MPA Fishing Coalition Calls for Agreed Protocols
Fish, Fishermen and General Public Let Down by the Political Process
The NFFO Executive Committee met recently in Newlyn to review the Federation’s…
In the sometimes fractious exchanges within the fishing industry about quota shares, sight is…
The fishing industry is more reliant than ever before on fisheries scientists to defend it from…
Progress by the North Sea RAC in developing a long term management plan for the nephrops fishery…
The future of the regional advisory councils was discussed recently in Brussels at an landmark…
The annual seminar organised by the Commission which marks the beginning of the autumn…
The BBC has suggested that the Sunday Times front page headline Only 100 Adult Cod Left in the…
The NFFO’s Executive Committee met recently in York and high on the agenda were…
The network of MPAs in UK waters is to include sites selected for the protection of birds.
The NFFO has played its part in successfully fighting off Council redevelopment plans for…
The Lisbon Treaty has given the European Parliament a central role in agreeing legislation…
The Sunday Times announced on its front page that there are only 100 adult cod left in the North…
The Sunday Times has been running a hostile campaign which systematically presents a…
A delegation of NFFO shellfish interests met recently with senior Defra officials to discuss…
The NFFO joined ANIFPO in welcoming representatives of the Northern Ireland Assembly on 3rd…
The NFFO salutes the UK’s oldest active fisherman, Bill Hocking from Looe in Cornwall,…
In pandering to a noisy angling lobby in South Wales, the Welsh Assembly has abandoned any…
We are wholly opposed to the suggestion that bass should be incorporated into the system of…
Is the fishing industry the victim of double standards? We have become accustomed to offshore…
The European Commission has made a Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of…
The frustrations of dealing with two management bodies was a recurrent theme at the most recent…
It's not difficult to understand the appeal for journalists on a day trip to the coast from…
The NFFO is pressing the UK Fisheries Minister taking advantage of an EU exemption from the…
The frustrating experience of being told by government officials that their hands are tied by…
Displacement Threat to Recovering Stocks in Western Waters
One wonders how long the corporate types at Greenpeace took to settle on the campaign slogan…
The Commission has made it clear that it is prepared to propose significant increases in TACs to…
The European Commission has convinced itself, with the assistance of the European Court of…
It has become a commonplace, accepted in all quarters, that the Common Fisheries Policy is a…
The requirement for a register of quota holdings (FQAs*) in the UK has now become an absolute…
Signs of a less dogmatic approach to the application of MSY in mixed fisheries may be emerging…
The NFFO Executive Committee met recently in York to address the main issues currently…
Defra has given the MPA Fishing Coalition a clear assurance that fisheries management…
The environmental NGOs' disappointing, although not altogether surprising, response to the…
The Council of Ministers reached political agreement on a ‘General Approach’ to…
Work on a long-term plan for the North Sea Nephrops fishery has reached a critical stage in the…
The Black Arts of media distortion are again moving to the fore, as CFP reform reaches an…
Regionalisation of the Common Fisheries Policy has moved centre stage since the NFFO (amongst…
There is much to learn from the experiences of the UK and Scottish Marine Acts in taking account…
A small NFFO delegation, representing a cross-section of the Federation’s…
The recently published and long awaited concordat that will in future govern relations…
The snowy wastes of Svalbard, well inside the Arctic Circle recently hosted an important…
For the fishing industry, this is a period of enormous upheaval and change. The stability, in…
The Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) has been commissioned to undertake…
The NFFO and the Crown Estate recently jointly hosted a meeting for representatives of fishing…
Notice of the 35th Annual General Meeting of the National Federation of Fishermen’s…
In addition to questioning their legal and scientific basis, MPA Fishing Coalition has…
Only FOUR weeks remaining until the 6th World Fisheries Congress 2012 takes place!
The NFFO West Coast Committee has made substantial progress in establishing a working…
MPAC, the Coalition established to ensure that fishing gets a fair hearing in the…
The EU Cod Management Plan has been evaluated by STECF and found to be flawed in some serious…
We are not without sympathy for the dilemma that you face in addressing the problems of the…
STECF reported last year that the current EU Management Plan was failing to meet its objectives
As the reform process continues, the European Parliament Fisheries Committee recently…
The NFFO Executive Committee met again recently to address a full agenda.
The fishing industry in the Thames estuary has been comprehensively failed by the system of…
RACs are working with ICES to strengthen fish stock assessments.
An NFFO delegation met recently with senior staff of the MMO as part of our agreed programme of…
An NFFO delegation met recently with Dr Stephen Bolt, the Chief Executive of the Association of…
After 20 years of what we could politely call sub-optimal performance of the CFP's resource…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations welcomes the…
Since the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, all signatories,…
Seafish has commissioned NFFO Services Ltd to undertake a study on potting rollers and haulers…
The NFFO’s Executive Committee met in York on 7th February to review developments in the…
The MPA Fishing Coalition has had its first meeting of the year with DEFRA, MMO, IFCAs and the…
The difficult, thankless, task of managing effort (days at sea restrictions) under the EU Cod…
All the signs are that 2012 will be a pivotal year for the fishing industry.
MPAC, the alliance of fishing organisations which was formed to defend access to fishing…
The Marine Conservation Society has apparently pronounced itself “appalled”…
Chairman Tony Delahunty, Selsey
The NFFO’s North East Committee has had an exceptionally busy year.
TACs and Effort Move in Opposite Directions
The main North Sea joint stock TACs were agreed with Norway in late November and with the…
Paul Trebilcock Cornish Fish Producers and NFFO Chairman-elect
Tony Delahunty, Chairman of the NFFO South East Committee, represented the South…
After two days of negotiations in Brussels, the conclusion of the EU’s Fisheries…
The UK, with strong support from France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands and Denmark, managed to…
The precautionary approach is now well embedded within fisheries science and fisheries…
For the first time since she took office two years ago, Commissioner Damanaki met recently with…
The Catch Quota scheme will have up to 12% cod quota over and above the TAC for 2012 (the same…
It would be hard to imagine a fisheries policy instrument than the EU effort control regime that…
Many of the really difficult issues facing our industry arise from how to manage mixed…
NFFO’s Dale Rodmell participated in 3 out of the 4 regional MCZ projects and closely…
Once the year-end quota and effort negotiations have concluded and we begin the New Year, it can…
Submission Prepared by the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations in…
The first round of negotiations towards the annual fisheries agreement between the EU and…
A constructive meeting with the representatives from the Marine Management Organisation was…
The MPA Fishing Coalition has welcomed UK Fisheries Minister, Richard Benyon’s…
In direct meetings with the UK Fisheries Minister, Richard Benyon, the NFFO has emphasised…
Past NFFO President Sam Lambourn has recently retired as Chairman of the North West Waters…
The NFFO’s Executive Committee met recently in York to deal with a heavy workload of…
The NFFO South West Committee elected John Butterwith as its new Chairman at its meeting on 19th…
A meeting convened by the European Commission to consider the future of the EU Cod Management…
The NFFO South West Committee meets next in Exeter on 19th October.
After careful consideration, the NFFO's Shellfish Committee has adopted a policy on the crab,…
The fishing industry in the South East must prepare itself for a dialogue with fisheries…
The idea of capping effort in the UK crab and lobster fisheries has been in circulation for many…
Fishermen in the South East have asked the NFFO to reinvigorate its South East Committee
A major consultative meeting was held in Brussels on 8th September as a prelude to the autumn…
In a determined attempt to break with the era when fishermen’s knowledge was invariably…
With the site recommendations by the four English regional MCZ projects due to be published on…
An important change is underway in the relationship between fishermen and fisheries science.
The Federation is gearing up for an extremely busy autumn
Twelve words have rocked the foundations of the EU Cod Management Plan and have undermined the…
Extreme positions are being adopted and incendiary language used on the issue of transferable…
Defra’s public response to the NFFO’s broadside on the imminent transfer of…
The EU rules which cover technical conservation measures, such as mesh size, minimum landing…
Work going on within the North West Waters RAC, on a long term management plan for the Celtic Sea…
New devolution concordat will hand over control to Scotland
The stubborn refusal of Irish Sea cod to respond to a whole array of conservation measures is one…
The Industry/Defra working group charged with developing solutions to the quota problems…
The final outcome of the CFP reform is wide open; that was the impression left by Lowri Evans,…
Over the last thirty years there has been constant pressure from the powerful and…
An interesting and authoritative “global meta analysis” of 345 fish stocks has…
Reproduced below is a letter sent by the Federation to the editor of the Times complaining about…
The NFFO has elected Paul Trebilcock, Chief Executive of the Cornish Fish Producers’…
On 25th May the European Commission released its Communication concerning a consultation on…
THE National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) and the Marine…
The NFFO and the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation recently jointly briefed MPs on the…
We can expect the usual crop of apocalyptic predictions from the mainstream media and…
We welcome the Commission’s clarification over the definition of the term…
The North Sea and North West Waters regional advisory councils have presented their case for…
The NFFO holds a seat on the BBC’s Rural Affairs Committee.
..to which no fishing industry representatives were invited, again put herself in…
NFFO Chairman, Arnold Locker, recently gave his annual report to the Federation's AGM. It is…
A meeting held recently in Copenhagen and attended by the NFFO, assessed the progress made to…
The MPA Fishing Coalition, the body set up to ensure that the fishing industry has a strong voice…
It is difficult to recall a time when the Federation has had to fight on so many major fronts at…
Defra recently announced a one-year, £950,000 continuation of the Fishery Science…
As the European Commission prepares its proposals for CFP reform, the NFFO has published its 10…
The NFFO Training Trust Fund, the charity linked to the National Federation of…
The NFFO, member of the MPA Fishing Coalition, is calling for an urgent rethink on reference…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations is seeking to appoint a dynamic…
Marine Theme Objective: Economic and Social Research in the Marine Environment
A Defra consultation later this year will mark a fork in the road for the shellfish fisheries.
The North Sea Regional Advisory Council (NSRAC) has stated its position on discards ahead of a…
Each Commissioner quickly establishes a hallmark of their time in office. For Joe Borge it was a…
There is a paradox in the way that the present Government is using heavy duty, top-down…
The NFFO has written to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with some advice on how to take the Channel…
The North East drift net fishery has come under sustained pressure from the powerful and well…
Commissioner Damanaki’s (if not necessarily DG Mare’s) enthusiasm for special…
Intense discussions between the NFFO and Defra over the shape of the days-at-sea regime for…
One of the guiding principles insisted upon when the NFFO was established in 1977 was that it…
Regional Task Forces will tackle weak stock assessments
If the CFP fails to find a way to regionalise its decision-making it will drift into a decade of…
Approaching the turn of last year the Irish Sea faced an appalling prospect.
First discussions towards defining management measures for the Dutch sector of the Dogger…
The first marine plan in covering much of UK waters in the southern North Sea will start its two…
Will Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall’s Fight for Fish campaign mark a turning point in the…
This week sees the start of a major Channel 4 campaign focused on fish and fishing. In a series of…
The European Court of Auditors has instigated an investigation into fleet overcapacity…
At a recent meeting with the Lori Evans, Director General of DG Mare, the Commission’s…
It is a bald reality these days that, in making fisheries legislation, ministers will rarely…
2011 will be a crucial year for the fishing industry.
“The only constant is change”
The fisheries for plaice and sole and other flatfish species are amongst the most valuable to us…
The Council of Ministers meeting of December 2010 may come to be seen as the high-water mark of a…
The body formed to provide the fishing industry with a voice on how marine protected areas are…
In addition to arguing for TAC and quota levels consistent with the viability of the fleets, a…
A major clash in Brussels over fisheries jurisdiction is looming in Brussels, which could have…
Agreement with Norway on a reciprocal fisheries agreement for 2011 was reached at the end of a…
The diversity of the NFFO’s membership is one of its most noticeable features. Our…
The MPA Fishing Coalition, the body established to ensure that the fishing industry has a voice…
The apparent failure of cod recovery measures applied to the Irish Sea demersal fisheries…
The International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
The Commission seems to have lost its way on discards. Although the rhetoric is still there -…
ICES reviews its stock assessment models
The body set up by the UK fishing industry to ensure that the fishing industry’s voice is…
The turbulence inside the Marine Management Organisation associated with the abrupt…
For as long as total allowable catches and days-at-sea restrictions are fixed at the December…
The Government’s cull of quangos is likely to carry huge implications for the way that…
The inevitable and understandable fear in the fishing industry at present is that the…
NFFO President Davy Hill and Assistant Chief Executive Dale Rodmell visited ports in the South…
The new Control Regulation was forced through the Council of Ministers in October 2009 to beat…
Leaders of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation and the NFFO met recently in London to…
European Commissioner Maria Damanaki heard recently from a range of marine interests on the…
The Dolphin Cafe adjacent to Peterhead fish-market recently provided the venue for informal…
The North Sea Regional Advisory Council is well through its programme of port visits to discuss…
Fisheries scientists at the recent seminar on the state of European fish stocks, in Brussels,…
At its recent Annual General Meeting in York, the NFFO elected its new President, Kilkeel…
At a major seminar on European fish stocks held recently in Brussels, organised by the European…
The MPA Fishing Coalition, of which the NFFO is a core member, has continued its important role…
The latest batch of European marine sites includes designation of the controversial site in…
The reintegration of under-10 metre vessels into the mainstream quota management system
A ground-breaking meeting involving representatives from all sides of the fishing industry…
The NFFO’s annual general meeting for 2010 will be held, in York, on 6th September.
The NFFO in collaboration with the North Sea Regional Advisory Council and other…
Regional advisory councils, frustrated at continuing weaknesses in many ICES fish stock…
The NFFO and UKAFPO, the representative body for producer organisations in the UK, are to…
The NFFO holds a position on the EC Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (ACFA) and…
The NFFO and Scottish Fishermen's Federation recently held their first meeting with new EC…
The NFFO says that it has “no concerns” following Richard Lochhead, the Scottish…
An NFFO delegation, representing the diversity of the NFFO’s membership, met recently…
At its most recent meeting, in Newlyn, the NFFO Executive thanked Barry Edwards for his five…
The MPA Coalition met recently in Fishmongers Hall, in London, to shape its future work…
CFP reform seems to be adrift after the lead Commission official on the reform process,…
North Sea RAC takes its Ideas for a Long-Term Management Plan for Nephrops to the main prawn…
NFFO Exec Meets the MMO Marine Management Organisation, Chief Executive, Steven Gant and his…
A large breakfast meeting between the Secretary of State and all of the new Defra ministers…
The fishing industry in the South West came together in Exeter on 5th May to discuss initial…
A major conference on the main CFP reform marked the end of one phase and the beginning of…
A third round of talks between NFFO and Redercentrale, the representative body for Belgian…
In the same way that a few pathfinder bees will arrive ahead of the swarm, the annual fisheries…
The MPA Coalition has attracted support from every part of the UK and beyond.
This paper is the NFFO’s response to the SAIF Proposition Paper which was circulated on…
First moves to operationalise a Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) approach to European…
The NFFO met recently with Defra officials to discuss the details of the DEFRA Catch Quota…
The NFFO has written to the Fisheries Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies, urging him to support the…
The Marine Management Organisation will be launched on 1st April.
At a meeting in London on 9th March 2010, the NFFO Shellfish Committee reviewed its policy…
A formal system of marine spatial planning may still be some years down the road but when it…
Brown Crab will be the focus for a comprehensive examination of policy when the NFFO Shellfish…
A new industry body has been formed, supported by two national federations, NFFO and SFF and…
The introduction of the new Omega net gauge has been seriously mishandled and there are…
The founding organisations of the new MPA Fishing Coalition met recently with Natural…
The decision to close the English whitefish fleet down for the last week of the effort year, to…
The UK’s two main UK fishermen’s federations have thrown their support behind an…
The announcement on January 8th by the Prime Minister on plans for a further 32GW of offshore…
The terminology, “Good Environmental Status”, and “Marine Strategy…
A short but important article on the NFFO website is having an impact in the United States.
It is a basic reality of fishing politics in the 21st century that next to nothing can be achieved…
The annual Fisheries Debate is the main opportunity during the year for the Government to…
Council of Ministers, EU/Norway negotiations and internal government meetings where UK…
The UK has now published its response to the Commission’s Green Paper on CFP reform.
NFFO Chief Executive Barrie Deas and Fisheries Minister Huw Irranca Davies in this programme…
One of the peculiarities of fisheries politics over the past 10 years or so has been the level of…
One of the Federation’s priorities for January is to agree as far as possible with Defra…
The Lisbon Treaty means that from here on in all decisions on European fisheries issues will be…
The 2010 NFFO Yearbook has now been distributed to NFFO members.
NFFO Chairman Davy Hill Looks Forward into the New Year
TACs and Quotas for 2010
The annual quota negotiations have begun in Brussels following a late evening meeting between…
Commissioner Joe Borg, outlined his views on the future direction of travel for Commission…
The NFFO’s response to the Commission’s Green Paper is now complete and will be…
The NFFO has heavily criticised the appointment of what Defra is calling an…
EU Fisheries Commissioner, Joe Borg, was challenged by the NFFO to move beyond TAC reductions…
Preparation for this year’s quota negotiations began in April, with preliminary…
A short lived third round of EU Norway talks in Bergen this week failed to rescue the annual…
The NFFO South West Committee questioned Natural England over its proposed inshore Special…
Launch of MPA Fishing Coalition Early Next Year
The NFFO and Scottish Fishermen’s Federation recently briefed Westminster MPs in…
The NFFO West Coast Committee brought together Bella Murfin, Defra's head of the Access to…
A Commission proposal to hand itself additional powers to apply technical rules has been…
Commission Proposals “Reckless and Irresponsible”The European…
NFFO Chief Executive, Barrie Deas, one of the speakers at the recent RAC conference on decision…
The Council of Ministers, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, adopted a 10% margin of…
The North Sea RAC has issued a stiffly worded press release criticising the Commission's drive…
The NFFO is calling on MPs not to allow simplistic and ill considered green lobby calls to limit…
Members of the NFFO Executive met with the Marine and Fisheries Agency in York recently, to…
The kind of CFP reforms pressed for by the NFFO, have received a tremendous boost by this…
Briefing Note on the Proposed Technical Conservation Regulation
The failure of cod recovery measures in the Irish Sea and what might be done to replace the…
The NFFO is spearheading a campaign to extract the margin of tolerance issue from the new…
A meeting was held on Friday 18 September at the Northern Irish Parliament in Stormont
As the Marine Bill concludes its final stages in parliament before passing into law, the NFFO is…
Fishermen are more vulnerable than any other marine group, and marine protected areas had the…
A project to assess the relative merits of alternative management approaches for the brown…
The EU exemption from using the new electronic mesh gauge expires on 1st September.
The NFFO West Coast Committee at its recent meeting held in Barrow-in Furness was given…
The NFFO’s AGM will this year be held in St William’s College, York, on Thursday…
The new EU Control Regulation is moving rapidly towards adoption by the Council of Ministers in…
The NFFO played a full role in a major meeting organised recently by the European Commission to…
The recent conclusion of the long-running court case about fish landings in Newlyn, has…
In an overview given to a major consultative meeting on the Scientific Advice on European fish…
“Overfishing” is a widely used phrase, especially in the media. But it…
Shifting goal posts and weak assessments cripple ICES advice
A joint delegation from the NFFO and the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation met recently…
The process of establishing Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2010 has begun with the…
The NFFO in collaboration with the North Sea Regional Advisory Council and other…
Real time closures are now established as a significant feature of the Cod Recovery Plan.
An NFFO delegation met recently with Defra officials and the Shellfish Association of Great…
The NFFO recently shared a platform with European Fisheries Commissioner, Joe Borg at an event…
The new Home Office polices on the entry of non EEA nationals to the UK threatens to cause chaos in…
The current press excitement over the film The End of the Line raises two fundamental…
The NFFO has written to the UK Fisheries Minister Hugh Irranca-Davies to reaffirm its…
An NFFO delegation recently met the MSC at its London headquarters.
The two national federations, the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations…
24 June 1960 – 10 May 2009
The publication of the Commission’s Green Paper on CFP reform has started a process of…
It has been evident for some time now that the Scottish administration’s proposals for a…
One of the prestigious Buckland Lectures will this year be held to coincide with a meeting of the…
There are signs that the arguments put forward by the NFFO, Cornish Fish Producers’…
Under the Westminster Marine Bill and the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the…
The recent spate of superficial and sensationalist stories appearing in the media has…
At its recent meeting in Paris the North West Waters Regional Council adopted the NFFO’s…
A strong NFFO delegation recently attended a North Sea RAC meeting in Edinburgh which has been…
Alan McCulla to forge industry response to Marine Conservation Zones and Offshore…
Overall, the North Sea whiting TAC tends to be underutilised but inflexibilities in the…
The stark reality that the government’s predefined timeframe will lead to the…
At a recent meeting with senior Commission officials, in Brussels, the NFFO spelt out the…
The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation and the National Federation of…
Following questions raised to the Fisheries Minister at the NFFO’s Annual General…
A meeting between the Crown Estate and the NFFO was held recently at our York Offices, to discuss…
The NFFO recently formally responded to the Scottish Executive’s “Interim…
The NFFO West Coast Committee recently reconvened in Lancaster.
The Lighthouse Authorities are consulting on an increase in the light dues charge.
The NFFO remains engaged in intensive discussions with Defra over the implementation of the…
The NFFO has urged all fishermen who operate under 10m vessels and have been allocated a limited…
The NFFO is working intensively with the North Sea and North West Waters regional advisory…
Federation representatives recently attended a major three-day meeting with senior…
The NFFO South West Committee has secured a seat on the Steering Group of Finding Sanctuary.
A Parliamentary Committee, chaired by former Fisheries Minister Michael Jack MP, recently…
NFFO members are reminded that the Dreadnought Unit of St Thomas’ Hospital in London is…
Unless fishermen have confidence in the science on which their quotas are based and the rules…
The Commission’s proposal for a new Control Regulation has triggered a strong reaction…
The Scottish Executive’s long awaited reaction to a consultation on the establishment…
Belgian fishing industry representatives met recently with Bristol Channel Fishermen in a…
JNCC, the Government’s statutory advisors on nature conservation, has written to the…
A pre-consultation meeting between the NFFO and the Government’s statutory advisors…
The challenge is how to establish a process that integrates biology and economics and places…
The NFFO has reached broad agreement with Defra on the shape of a UK interim days-at-sea regime.
There should be more effective ways for fishermen to provide information on the environmental…
The debate on the CFP after 2012 started in earnest this week with an exchange of views between…
The Federation will shortly be submitting its suggestions for fisheries science projects for…
Fisheries Minister Huw Irranca-Davies gave the fishing industry clear assurances on its…
A meeting in Copenhagen in mid January may prove to be a breakthrough to a better kind of…
Although no formal announcement has yet been made, there are signs that the…
The NFFO is currently engaged in intensive discussions with Defra officials on the form that…
The first of a series of meetings on the shape and role of the new Marine Management…
A meeting was held recently with Defra officials in the NFFO offices in York, on the…
"Hostile and sometimes ill-informed, superficial comment can be highly damaging to the…
DECEMBER 2008 FISHERIES COUNCIL
The disappointing result of the December 2008 EU Fisheries Council has not come as a surprise to…
Key features of the December settlement for Fishing Grounds
This year’s Council of Ministers meeting to decide TACs and quotas for 2009 was held in…
The NFFO Yearbook for 2009 has now been circulated to member organisations for distribution to…
Federation Urges Wholesale Review of Regulation Costs
The NFFO puts a lot of effort into ensuring that statutory safety rules are practical and cost…
The EU Norway agreement for reciprocal fisheries arrangements in 2009 was agreed on 10th…
Fishermen in the Bristol Channel have repeatedly raised concerns about the activity of…
The NFFO has fielded a strong team to attend the December Council where critical decisions on…
The Federation agrees that there is a major problem of latent capacity in the under-10 metre…
One of the breakthroughs of the last ten years has been the recognition by ICES scientists and…
The NFFO used its position on the Advisory Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture (ACFA) to…
The NFFO Executive Committee met recently in York to strengthen and fine tune the…
At the latest NFFO South West Committee meeting, the Shark Trust gave strong backing to the…
The second round of EU Norway talks for a reciprocal agreement in 2009 concluded on Friday 28th…
The European Commission has plans for a new Control Regulation for European Fisheries.
As the December Council approaches, the Federation is preparing a strenuous defence of the…
The Demersal Working Group of the North Sea Regional Advisory Council met recently in a…
No one should underestimate the achievement of keeping the Celtic Sea out of the EU cod recovery…
The NFFO has secured a place on an influential committee that will make recommendations on…
The NFFO holds a seat on the BBC’s Rural Affairs Committee.
The Council of Ministers was held in Brussels on 18/19 November 2008.
The NFFO and Defra officials got down to the detail of the UK’s priorities for the…
Alan McCulla’s port visits on behalf of the NFFO are proving to be an effective way of…
A recent meeting of the NFFO Shellfish Committee considered the way forward on crab and lobster…
The NFFO met the Board of Natural England recently to discuss the Marine Bill and how Natural…
The annual EU Norway talks are a complex set of negotiations over two rounds that, amongst other…
The NFFO will shortly provide its annual briefing for MPs in advance of the annual fisheries…
Nephrops make a vitally important contribution to the earnings of the UK fleet
The signs are mounting that the November Council of European fisheries ministers is likely to…
Cod recovery is expected again to dominate this year’s December Council
As NFFO News went to press the NFFO was due to meet the new Fisheries Minister Huw…
New Fisheries Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies, met with the two UK Federations, NFFO and SFF,…
In a constructive meeting with the Marine Fisheries Agency the NFFO has concluded that Fleet…
How Irranca-Davies MP has replaced Jonathan Shaw as UK fisheries minister following a…
The North Sea Regional Advisory Council, of which the NFFO is a prominent member, adopted a…
“We are determined that this will not be some kind of marine Highland Clearance”
The NFFO South East Committee represents fishermen from the ports of Folkestone, Rye,…
We meet in the most difficult of times. The rapid increase in fuel prices to unprecedented…
This paper responds to the Scottish Executive’s consultation paper Safeguarding our…
National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
The Federation is heavily engaged in discussions with various bodies over offshore…
One by-product of the fuel price crisis is the end to the wholly discriminatory light dues…
At the NFFO’s AGM, Fisheries Minister Jonathan Shaw was told that the…
Skipper Davey Hill from Kilkeel in Northern Ireland, has taken over the Chair of the National…