Guidance

Regional Fisheries Groups - North East 4b

The region covers Berwick to Cleethorpes/Grimsby Port.

From:
Marine Management Organisation
Published
26 July 2022
Last updated
19 December 2024 — See all updates

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Successes in the North East 4b:

1. Grants FaSS match rates on Health & Safety funding

The NW RFG raised the disparity between the amount for grant funding available for bottom towed gear and other gear types.

The Defra FaSS team bought a paper to the board asking for the match-funding rates of fishing vessels which are classed as micro entities to be raised to 80% for Health & Safety projects regardless of the type of fishing gear used. This would bring them in line with the rate available to small-scale coastal fishers (SSCF).

Following discussions within this group and with the HM Treasury, the change has been approved: match-funding rates for any vessel with a length of 12m or less will be raised to 80% for Health & Safety projects, regardless of the type of gear used.

2. Additional Quota 2021 round

Additional Quota was made available from the MMO at the end of 2021. The one-time offer meant a small amount of the additional quota England received from the Trade and Cooperation Agreement was distributed via selected Producer Organisations (PO) without cost to the U10m vessel or benefit to the PO. It enabled capped vessels to fish above their annual 350kg limit for quota stocks before January 1 2022.

3. Additional Quota 2022 round

A similar scheme took place again in 2022 starting earlier in the year.

Temporary lift of the under-10m licence cap from 1 August 2022.

The cap on some under-10m vessels which restricts their uptake to no more than 350kg per year of quota stocks was temporarily lifted for the remainder of 2022. This is being done to facilitate uptake of available quota and as an exercise to make an initial test for any unexpected consequences of lifting the cap more permanently.

Meeting videos

North East Regional Fisheries Group (RFG) Meeting - 18-09-24

Meeting notes:

Collaborative Science:

Quota presentations:

Crab and lobster Fisheries Management Plan (FMP)

The crab and lobster FMP was published in December 2023. There are a number of measures recommended in the FMP (please see the poster for further information and indicative timescales).

Crab and Lobster FMP in English Waters

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Defra has commissioned MMO to lead delivery of proposal three, the trial of finer scale management in two lobster fishery units (LFUs) in the Northeast - Northumberland and Durham lobster LFU and Yorkshire Humber LFU. These LFUs were highlighted in the FMP for priority management due to their stock sizes being well below maximum sustainable yield (MSY) and their exploitation rates being close to or above the maximum reference point.

Updates to this page

Published 26 July 2022
Last updated 19 December 2024 + show all updates

  1. Crab and lobster Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) update.

  2. 18 October 2024 meeting video added. Latest quota update video added.

  3. Update 18 September 2024

  4. January meeting note update

  5. Meeting notes and quota presentations added.

  6. Meeting notes added

  7. 26 April 2023 update.

  8. Feb update

  9. successes

  10. New date for meeting

  11. update

  12. First published.

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