Tag: NFFO
Kingfisher launches fishing restrictions mapping website. New online service helps fishers navigate commercial fishing gear restrictions in UK waters. The Kingfisher team at Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry, have launched ...
New chairman for NFFO. Longstanding member of the NFFO’s Executive Committee and vice-chairman of its South- East Committee, Paul Gilson, has been elected as the next chairman of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisation. He ...
French domestic politics and fishing. Europe Trade and Cooperation Agreement. It is simply not possible to satisfactorily explain the current turbulence between the UK and France over licences in fishing terms alone, according to an ...
National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations announces new deputy. The NFFO is pleased to announce the appointment of its former Chairman, Mike Cohen, as the Federation’s Deputy Chief Executive. Chief Executive, Barrie Deas, announced the appointment ...
100 reasons to be careful – Fisheries Science Partnerships. In a recent article on their website, the NFFO has warned that the Government’s plans for spending the £100 million promised by the Prime Minister in ...
The politics of division. A recent article by Andrew Pascoe on the NFFO website. It is not that difficult to exploit divisions in the fishing industry. We are a complex, multi-faceted, diverse industry, targeting a ...
Annual Fisheries Negotiations – preparations for 2022 underway, reports an article on the NFFO website. Only a few short months after the annual fisheries agreement for 2021 between the UK and EU was concluded, preparations ...
Preparations for 2022 Underway For The Annual Fisheries Negotiations. The aim for this year is to secure agreement by 10th December, confirms the NFFO Only a few short months after the annual fisheries agreement for ...
HPMA Selection Process Rigged to Harm Fishing Communities MPAs Sustainability and Environment The government’s process to select Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) needs a rethink states an article on the NFFO website. It is deliberately ...
Prepare for displacement. Lords appointment triggers NFFO change to MPA Policy. The appointment of Richard Benyon as Defra minister in the House of Lords has prompted a rethink within the NFFO on its approach to ...
NFFO Training and Safety Initiative – The NFFO Training Trust, the charity arm of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations, has announced that it will be offering grants worth a total of £100,000 to support ...
UK’s first Wildlife Bycatch Mitigation Hub launched by Clean Catch UK. Following the enshrinement of the Fisheries Act in law in late 2020, Clean Catch UK has announced the launch of an innovative online Hub ...
NFFO Calls for Calm Over Jersey Blockade The blockade of St Helier by French fishing vessels and the somewhat hysterical political over-reaction that has included threats to cut off electricity supplies to the island, will ...
No Norway Agreement for 2021 – International TACs and Quotas. It has become clear that there will be no UK/Norway bilateral fisheries agreement for 2021, states an article on the NFFO website. At a heads ...
Forty New MPAs in Next Three Years Towards the end of a recent NFFO meeting with the management authorities (MMO/Defra and nature advisors, JNCC) it was revealed that it is the Government’s intention to implement ...
Confrontation and Litigation: In an important and disturbing change, environmental NGOs have now apparently abandoned any pretence of working collaboratively with the fishing industry, writes the NFFO. With one or two honourable exceptions, most have ...
NFFO Blasts Number 10 – It may be nothing, but No 10 has replied to the Scottish Fishermen’s letter criticising the outcome of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU, whilst the NFFO’s letter ...
Labour Disowns Greenpeace Reports the NFFO Full credit to Shadow Fisheries Minister, Luke Pollard MP, for publicly disowning Greenpeace for dumping boulders to endanger fishing vessels in the vicinity of where a fishing vessel was ...
NFFO Calls on Political Parties to Condemn Greenpeace Vigilantes – The NFFO has written to the leaders of the main political parties, and to UK fisheries ministers and shadows, pressing them to condemn Greenpeace’s most ...
Government Agrees to Second Financial Support Package After weeks of lobbying by the NFFO the Government has announced a further tranche of financial support for the fishing industry. An announcement has been made of a ...
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