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| A bright new dawn? |
Since leaving the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy, the UK government has been developing a new framework for managing fish and shellfish stocks, known as Fisheries Management Plans or FMPs).
There are 43 FMPs in development, each focusing on one or more species, with 6 frontrunners due to be published this year. The intention of these FMPs is to take an evidence-based approach to making management decisions that ensure stocks are fished at sustainable levels.
The Future of Our Inshore Fisheries (FOIF), a joint project delivered by Seafish, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) released a newsletter in August providing an overview of how these FMPs are being developed, what they do and how to have your say on the development of them.