
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…
Mature and responsible fisheries management frequently requires necessary trade-offs…
Government, the national fishing federations and the Fishermen’s…
As the Fisheries Bill passes through the House of Lords, amendments have been laid down that…
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…
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…
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…
The Government has reacted to the potential health and economic damage caused by the pandemic,…
Dialogue has begun between the NFFO and the Government on how best to mitigate the impact of the…
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 MMO is introducing a mobile phone-based catch app for recording catches from the under 10…
In an industry that has experienced many momentous years and critical turning points, 2020…
The election of a Conservative government, with a solid majority, means that the passage of the…
The Future of Our Inshore Fisheries Conference will be held in London on 8th/9th October. Your…
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…
At a critical juncture in the Brexit process, around 70 parliamentarians gathered yesterday…
As the Government is poised to extend the use of vessel monitoring systems (VMS) across the…
The dangers of one-dimensional fisheries management.
Both sides of the Christmas break have seen intense activity at Westminster as the Fisheries…
The December Council of Ministers will not only be the last in which the UK participates but one…
Defra is consulting on a proposal to require all vessels below 12 metres in length to fit and…
As the UK leaves the EU and therefore the Common Fisheries Policy, this Bill is an important…
The full implementation of the landing obligation – the requirement to land all quota…
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…
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…
In a letter received before the announcement of the General Election, Fisheries Minister,…
Relative Stability is the name given to the quota allocation keys adopted as part of the CFP in…
The NFFO looks at claims that, post-Brexit, we could ditch quotas.
Notwithstanding the referendum result in 2014, in which the Scottish electorate rejected…
Following the NFFO’s meeting with Fisheries Minister, George Eustice, when the…
An NFFO delegation met with Fisheries Minister George Eustice, on Thursday 9th February to…
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 National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations, which represents fishermen in…
Brexit Takes Centre Stage at Fishing Industry Debate
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…
IFCAs, the bodies responsible for managing inshore fisheries in England, are at risk of…
The NFFO has offered to help those fisherman who have they been told that their licences will be…
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…
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…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) has warned of…
The Executive Committee of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations…
The Federation looks forward to its work programme for 2015.
The NFFO releases a statement saying an 'ad hoc' approach to a review is no longer satisfactory.
Fishermen in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have expressed their mounting alarm that…
The NFFO has already expressed, as part of its response to a recent Defra consultation, its…
NFFO Response to Greenpeace/NUTFA Report "Championing coastal waters".
The NFFO's West Coast Committee agreed at its meeting in Barrow on the 4th July to explore the…
The latest of several regional and port meetings organised by the MMO and NFFO to address…
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) has welcomed…
It is not exactly unknown for the weather in January to disrupt fishing operations, even for the…
The long awaited register of UK quota holdings has now been published jointly by the four UK…
Cooperation between the Fish Producers Organisation and the Ramsgate under-10metre Pilot…
The Marine Management Organisation is taking a critical look at its own performance in a number…
Now that the shape of the reformed CFP is known in broad terms, and the UKAFPO legal challenge to…
"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…
The experience of NFFO members, not just the NFFO, would seem to suggest that the MMO team…
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 MPA Fishing Coalition (MPAC) is warning that the time to respond to Defra’s Marine…
The MPA Fishing Coalition (MPAC) is calling on fishermen to make their voices heard in response…
Drift Net Fishery Axed
The NFFO and the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association have met to address fears…
What are we to make of the astounding sums of money put at the disposal of environmental lobby…
The NFFO has played its part in successfully fighting off Council redevelopment plans for…
The NFFO joined ANIFPO in welcoming representatives of the Northern Ireland Assembly on 3rd…
In pandering to a noisy angling lobby in South Wales, the Welsh Assembly has abandoned any…
The frustrations of dealing with two management bodies was a recurrent theme at the most recent…
The requirement for a register of quota holdings (FQAs*) in the UK has now become an absolute…
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…
MPAC, the Coalition established to ensure that fishing gets a fair hearing in the…
We are not without sympathy for the dilemma that you face in addressing the problems of the…
In direct meetings with the UK Fisheries Minister, Richard Benyon, the NFFO has emphasised…
Defra’s public response to the NFFO’s broadside on the imminent transfer of…
New devolution concordat will hand over control to Scotland
The Industry/Defra working group charged with developing solutions to the quota problems…
The NFFO and the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation recently jointly briefed MPs on the…
There is a paradox in the way that the present Government is using heavy duty, top-down…
The body formed to provide the fishing industry with a voice on how marine protected areas are…
The Government’s cull of quangos is likely to carry huge implications for the way that…
The MPA Fishing Coalition, of which the NFFO is a core member, has continued its important role…
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 and UKAFPO, the representative body for producer organisations in the UK, are to…
An NFFO delegation, representing the diversity of the NFFO’s membership, met recently…
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 Marine Management Organisation will be launched on 1st April.
The NFFO and Scottish Fishermen’s Federation recently briefed Westminster MPs in…
It has been evident for some time now that the Scottish administration’s proposals for a…
The NFFO met the Board of Natural England recently to discuss the Marine Bill and how Natural…
Nephrops make a vitally important contribution to the earnings of the UK fleet