Fully Documented Fishery scheme helping to reduce discards of quota species
...vessel is fishing and sensors to detect when the fishing net is deployed. A picture of the REM system’s output is below. These schemes are voluntary and it is only...
Coastal
How clean is your beach?
...hour clean we had found hundreds of items scattered across the beach and sand dunes including: tractor tyres lighters glass bottles beer cans tennis balls cotton bud tips cans of...
Focus on (EMFF) - Whitby and District Fishing Industry Training School
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Catherine Murphy (MMO), Posted on:
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Coastal, European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
In the second of our series of EMFF Focus On’s and to coincide with National Apprenticeship week 6 March 2017 we focus on Whitby and District Fishing Industry Training School.
The work of an MMO marine officer
...landings, and an opportunity to input some of the inspections and data collected that day. Of course, we cannot visit everywhere every day, but most days can be as varied,...
Keeping the data flowing
Laura Milstead, Administration Officer with the MMO North Shields coastal office tells us about the valuable work of MMO coastal data entry teams.
Reporting suspicious behaviour around the British coastline
The MMO is one of a number of Government organisations involved in Project Kraken – conducting intelligence-led enforcement activities in the marine area.
The work of the MMO Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU) Team
Today is #TalkLikeAPirateDay and I wanted to share some information on the work the IUU team do to implement the IUU Regulation on behalf of the UK and prevent illegally caught fish from coming across our border.
Don’t be caught out by illegal fish supply chains
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Phil Haslam, MMO Director of Operations and Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on:
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Coastal
Phil Haslam, Director of Operations at the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), discusses why it is bringing the issue of illegal fish supply chains to the table. Buying fish through illegitimate...
A week in the life of a Marine Enforcement Officer
...the current fishing activity, industry compliance and marine licences in our area and decide where to carry out our risk based inspections. Monday afternoon is dedicated to interviewing a fisherman...