Tag: NFFO
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 ...
NFFO’s response to Struan Stevenson’s criticisms of the fishing industry. In his article Britain’s Fishermen are stranded on the Brexit Rocks but who’s fault is it? (The Herald 22nd January) Struan Stevenson manages to emerge as both ...
NFFO keeps pressure on for financial support. The NFFO has written again to Secretary of State, George Eustice and Fisheries Minister, Victoria Prentis, for a second tranche of financial support for fishing businesses which are ...
UK/EU Annual Negotiations – A trial of strength is underway masked by the language of cooperation writes the NFFO Undermining Regulatory Autonomy: The first few plenary sessions of the negotiations for a UK/EU fisheries agreement ...
Major Blow to Fishing in MPAs – In a shocking development, the Marine Management Organisation has announced that it intends to ban all forms of towed bottom gears in the Dogger Bank SAC and the ...
NFFO Calls For Additional Quota Allocation The NFFO has written to the Secretary of State, George Eustice, arguing that additional quota secured from the EU should be first and foremost use to address cases where ...
NFFO Strong Letter to PM – The NFFO has written in strong terms to the Prime Minister about the Government’s portrayal of the UK/EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement as a success on fisheries: Dear Prime ...
No sign of border obstacles dissipating. With exports of fish and shellfish into the EU impeded by a range of border issues, Defra has formed a new stakeholder group to address the mounting crisis. The ...
The NFFO on Brexit Deal – “Miniscule, Marginal, Paltry, Pathetic” Some of the adjectives that will be in circulation within the UK fishing industry today, to describe the change in UK quota shares as the ...
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