Statutory guidance

Manage your fishing effort: Sole Recovery Zone 2024 to 2025

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: 4 December 2023 — See all updates

Documents

Sole Recovery Zone rules

HTML

Sole Recovery Zone days at sea application form

PDF, 412 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 2024 to 2025 Management Year (which runs from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025), 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).

Published 26 June 2014
Last updated 4 December 2023 + show all updates

1. 4 December 2023

   Dates updated to the new year (2024)

2. 1 December 2023

   Updating dates ahead of the New Year

3. 15 December 2022

   2023-2024 update

4. 16 December 2021

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

5. 15 December 2021

   page updated to reflect changes going into 2022

6. 30 September 2021

   Page updated following changes in guidance regarding beam trawlers.

7. 31 December 2020

   Sole Recovery Zone rules updated for 2021

8. 10 December 2019

   Updated for 2020

9. 11 February 2019

   Text updated

10. 13 December 2018

    Text and form updated

11. 20 December 2017

    form updated

12. 20 December 2017

    2018 to 2019 rules added

13. 16 December 2016

    Rules updated

14. 17 December 2015

    Dates updated

15. 27 January 2015

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

16. 17 December 2014

    Sole Recovery Scheme Rules for 2015 to 2016 added

17. 26 June 2014

    First published.