Create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.

The MMO are currently looking to trial catch recording for the Under 10m fleet. Here's what they say on their website:

Create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.

(Please note this is a phased introduction and the service is being tested with invited fishers only.)

Overview

Use this service to create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.

You can use this service if you are a:

• vessel owner
• skipper

If you are a member of a producer organisation you should not use the online record your catch service and should continue to record your catch using a paper logbook.

All U10m flag vessels need to record their catch. The information is used to help UK fishing authorities manage fishing levels in a sustainable way.

This service replaces:

• the NEP1 form
• the MSAR1 form, however, depending on your location, local IFCAs may require additional information
• the requirement to complete a log book when leasing fish quota and/or when fishing in 2 ICES areas (currently IV4/VIId and VIId/VIIe)

How to get an invite and register


How to get an invited

Vessel owners:You should receive an invite email. When you receive the invite email depends on your vessel size. You have one calendar month after receiving the email to register and start to use the service.

Skippers:To get an invite email contact the owner of the vessel you work on.

How to register

Vessel ownersWhen you register you’ll be asked to add the ports and gear you normally use and the species you catch for each of your vessels.

Adding this information before your trip makes it quicker to create a catch record. You’ll only need to do this once and you can change it in the future.

You can also add skippers to create catch records on your behalf.

Skippers

When you register you’ll be asked for your address and contact number.

What to record

• You must create a catch record for everything you catch on every fishing trip, even if you only catch one fish or shellfish.

• You’ll be asked for information about your trip and give estimates of the live weight of what you’ve caught. Your estimates must be within 10% of the actual weights in your sales note.

• Landed weights can be converted to live weights by multiplying them by a conversion factor.

• If you catch species with catch limits (quota) all sizes of fish must be recorded unless exemptions apply.

• You’ll be also asked for the area, the statistical sub rectangle, where the majority of your catch was caught.

ICES Sub Rectangle: North East


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When to record your catch

• If you catch species subject to quotas or catch limits
• You must create a catch record before you move your catch off the boat
• If you catch species not subject to quotas or catch limits
• You must create a catch record within 24 hours of landing your catch.
• If you catch a mixture of species subject to quotas or catch limits and species not subject to quotas or catch limits
• You must create a catch record before you move your catch off the boat.
• If on the same trip you fish, or are present, in ICES area 4c and 7d, or 7d and 7e

You must create a catch record each time you cross the ICES boundary between these areas. You will need to use the apple or android app to create your catch record offline.

If you cross an ICES area while fishing

You must create a separate catch record for each ICES Area you have fished in. These must be created before you move your catch off the boat if you are catching quota species or species with catch limits, or within 24 hours of landing if you are catching only species not subject to quotas or catch limits. If you catch a mixture of species subject to quotas or catch limits and species not subject to quotas or catch limits, you must create the catch records before you move your catch off the boat.

Where to record your catch

You can record your catch on the web or you can download the Android or Apple app. The app allows you to record your catch in an area without a mobile signal.

You can get help to create a catch record if you do not have the appropriate access, skills or confidence to complete the service online.

Start recording your catch

You can only use this service if you are a:

• vessel owner of a licensed under 10 metre flag vessel skipper who has been given permission by a vessel owner of a licensed under 10 metre vessel

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Before you start

• You will need: to have already have an invite and be registered to use the catch recording service your email address and password to sign in

Get help

A contact centre will be available following the full launch of the catch recording service. Phones will be staffed from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. At other times, the contact centre will run an automated service and fishers will be able to leave catch records over the phone. The contact centre number and further details will be posted shortly.

Further information is available in questions and answers from the consultation.

Videos

These short videos provide step-by-step guides to the new service:

Consultation on the introduction of catch recording for licensed fishing vessels under 10 metres in length

The MMO are seeking views on the potential business impacts linked to the introduction of catch recording for all English and Welsh licensed fishing boats under 10 metres in length.

Why We Are Consulting

We want to know your views on how the introduction of catch recording requirements for under 10 metre vessels registered in England or Wales could potentially affect you and your business.

The change in the licence condition will apply to all English and Welsh licensed fishing vessels under 10 metres in length. Scottish licensed vessels already have a licence condition that mandates recording for the under 10 metre fleet and Northern Ireland will be seeking consultation responses at a later date.

The consultation is open to everyone. It will be of particular interest to owners and operators of licensed fishing boats under 10 metres in length licensed in England and Wales.

Closes 1 Apr 2019

Contact catchrecording@marinemanagement.org.uk

Marine Management Organisation (MMO)

Fishing for a Future? Challenges and Opportunities Facing UK Fishing Communities Revealed at ‘UK Fishing Forum’

On 9 January 70 representatives from the fishing industry including fishermen, fish producers, policy makers and funders, attended an event at Fishmongers’ Hall organised by Seafarers UK and hosted by The Fishmongers’ Company. They were there to discuss the interim findings from a major new piece of research compiled by Cornwall Rural Community Charity and Rose Regeneration.

The ‘Fishing for a Future’ research is based on an analysis of 41 fishing ports around the UK. It involved an extensive survey of fishermen’s own views on the key issues impacting their lives as well as a survey of 70 health service providers in fishing communities. Many areas of need were identified, including: a lack of funding for simple port infrastructure and equipment; low workforce recruitment and retention; poor health amongst fishermen, with most suffering from a disability or long-term health problem; many fishing families facing financial difficulties, and the knock-on effects of a limited access to quota for the stability of fishermen’s personal circumstances.

1800 kg of bass accidentally caught by an inshore trawler on the day of the conference - value approx £21,000 - about to be thrown back overboard!

The ‘UK Fishing Forum 2018’ invited guests to quiz the report’s authors and other experts (see list below). Dave Cuthbert of the New Under 10m Fishermen’s Association, a panellist, said: ‘It isn’t fun to throw fish overboard and watch them drift away when you have a mortgage to pay. It exemplifies a broken system and highlights that small scale fishermen are hemmed in by regulation’. Griffin Carpenter, Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation felt that: ‘Fishing has been left out of the political system. Fishermen need coherent structures to give them a voice.’

The report also highlighted those areas of potential opportunity for pro-active work in tackling the need and challenges identified in the research, these being: the use of credit unions, money advice and pensions; training in numeracy, literacy and core skills; greater analysis and understanding of migrant workers; building upgrades and small harbour infrastructure; better health outreach; business development support; better workforce recruitment and retention, and the use of animateurs to help fishermen reach their full potential.

Barry Bryant, chair of the Forum and Director General of Seafarers UK, commented: ‘This work is timely in shining a light on a little understood community of resilient and resourceful fishermen who have often missed out on “one size fits all” social and economic interventions. The aim is that this research will provide an agenda for future action, and we hope that by fishermen, charities, support bodies and Government working together, we can make a significant and sustainable impact at this time of change for the UK fishing community that is such an important and financially viable part of our Island Nation.’

UK fishing sector facts highlighted in the report:

• Fishing and fish processing employ 22,000 people within the UK total of 28.5 million jobs
• The overall impact of the UK fishing sector is worth £1.14 billion
• In 2015 around 12,000 people were directly employed in fishing (in 1987 the figure was approaching 25,000)
• Over 20% of all those working directly as fishermen are non-EU workers
• 12,000 fishing jobs support at least a further 4,000 jobs in the wider economy, as well as their own extended families
• £552 million value of landings contributes that amount again in wider added value; making the overall impact of the UK fishing sector worth £1.14 billion.
• Speakers and panellists at ‘Fishing Forum 2018’:

• Ivan Annibal, Managing Director, Rose Regeneration
• Griffin Carpenter, Senior Researcher, New Economics Foundation
• Hazel Curtis, Chief Economist, Seafish
• Dave Cuthbert, Co-Chairman, NUTFA (New Under 10m Fishermen’s Association)
• David Dickins, Chief Executive, Fishermen’s Mission
• Robert Greenwood, Safety Officer, National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
• Andrew Pascoe, Fisherman (over 10 metres)
• Jerry Percy, Executive Director, LIFE (Low Impact Fishers of Europe) and Chairman, Coastal Producer Organisation
• Rob Poole, Rural Economist, Cornwall Rural Community Charity
• Simon Potten, Head of Safety, Training & Services, Seafish
• Chris Ranford, Fisheries Communities Animateur, Cornwall Rural Community Charity
• Dr Rachel Turner, Lecturer in Environmental Social Science, Exeter University
• Lysanne Wilson, Health Development Officer, Seafarers Hospital Society.

The interim ‘Fishing for a Future’ report is available to download at: http://bit.ly/2DbfdYj. The final report, due to be published in late Spring, will be informed by both the Forum’s discussions and any additional feedback on the interim findings from the full spectrum of the fishing community.

Feedback and input on the interim research is invited, by email to fishingforum@seafarers.uk, phone 020 7932 5965, or write to Fishing Forum, Seafarers UK, 8 Hatherley Street, London, SW1P 2QT.