Fishing vessel licensing arrangements
Updated 29 May 2015
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This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-fishing-vessel-licensing-arrangements/fishing-vessel-licensing-arrangements
0.1 With effect from 1 June 2015 fishing vessel licensing arrangements will:
- remove the expiry date of fishing vessel licences
- remove the expiry date of entitlements
- remove capacity penalties
- remove the mismatch rule
You must follow the rules of the administration handling your licence entitlement. No more minor mismatches will be permitted.
Where financial commitments have been made prior to this notice the MMO will be looking at cases individually where evidence can be provided. You should contact your local MMO office from which your licence is being administered.
0.2 The following rules still apply in England which may vary from other Fisheries administrations:
- no entitlements obtained from under 8 metre vessels can be used in aggregation to licence a 10 metre and under vessel
- engine power limits licensed by aggregation for under 8 metre vessels will remain at 100kw and for 10 metre and under vessels at 150kw.
Single licence transfer over these limits will continue to be permitted, unless the entitlements to be used have been created through aggregation outside of English administration after 24 February 2015.