Statutory guidance

Manage your fishing effort: Sole Recovery Zone 2025 to 2026

Detailed scheme rules and application forms to fish in the Sole Recovery Zone with regulated gears.

From:
Marine Management Organisation
Published
26 June 2014
Last updated
5 December 2024 — See all updates

Documents

Sole Recovery Zone rules

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Sole Recovery Zone days at sea application form

PDF, 651 KB, 2 pages

Sole Recovery Zone Days at Sea: Apply to transfer days at sea

PDF, 131 KB, 3 pages

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Details

The following rules apply to the carriage and use of regulated gears in the Sole Recovery Zone (SRZ) for the 2025 to 2026 Management Year (which runs from 1 February 2025 to 31 January 2026), The SRZ Scheme applies to vessels of 10 meters and over in length. The rules apply in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Area VIIe (Western Channel).

Updates to this page

Published 26 June 2014
Last updated 5 December 2024 + show all updates

  1. 2025 update

  2. Dates updated to the new year (2024)

  3. Updating dates ahead of the New Year

  4. 2023-2024 update

  5. Form updated: Manage your fishing effort: Sole Recovery Zone 2022 to 2023

  6. page updated to reflect changes going into 2022

  7. Page updated following changes in guidance regarding beam trawlers.

  8. Sole Recovery Zone rules updated for 2021

  9. Updated for 2020

  10. Text updated

  11. Text and form updated

  12. form updated

  13. 2018 to 2019 rules added

  14. Rules updated

  15. Dates updated

  16. Sole Recovery Zone rules for the 2015 to 2016 management year changed

  17. Sole Recovery Scheme Rules for 2015 to 2016 added

  18. First published.

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