Vessel licensing

Guidance and regulation

Fishing vessel licence variations
- Statutory guidance
- 28 April 2026
- Marine Management Organisation
Understand your fishing vessel licence
- Detailed guide
- 28 April 2026
- Marine Management Organisation
United Kingdom Single Issuing Authority (UKSIA)
- Detailed guide
- 1 May 2026
- Marine Management Organisation
Record your catch
- Detailed guide
- 9 October 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
Current catch limits: 10 metres and under non-sector pool
- Statutory guidance
- 28 April 2026
- Marine Management Organisation

MMO confirms I-VMS legislation schedule for 2025
- 25 March 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
- News story
Effort swap proposal consultation open
- 17 July 2019
- Marine Management Organisation
- Press release
Catch recording for under 10m fishing vessels starts this summer
- 14 June 2019
- Marine Management Organisation
- Press release
Fishermen urged to be Brexit ready by registering with the IMO
- 27 February 2019
- Marine Management Organisation
- Press release
Over ten metre vessel licence categories
- 23 June 2017
- Marine Management Organisation
- News story

August 2020 catch limit consultation
- 20 July 2020
- Marine Management Organisation
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 27 July 2020
July 2020 catch limit consultation
- 22 June 2020
- Marine Management Organisation
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 26 June 2020
June 2020 catch limit consultation
- 21 May 2020
- Marine Management Organisation
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 26 May 2020
May 2020 catch limit consultation
- 23 April 2020
- Marine Management Organisation
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 27 April 2020
Fisheries: bilateral agreement with the Faroe Islands for 2022
- 23 February 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper