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How to apply for a safe manning document for fishing vessels

Complete MSF 3902 for a safe manning document for fishing vessels.

The Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Fishing Vessels of less than 15m Length Overall
- Guidance
- 31 January 2024
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
MSN 1905 (M+F) Application of ships' medical stores regulations 1995
- Guidance
- 28 April 2023
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Inspection of fishing vessels of less than 15m Length Overall
- Detailed guide
- 6 April 2023
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Fishing certification and training
- Detailed guide
- 20 April 2021
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Registering a fishing vessel
- Detailed guide
- 30 October 2023
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency

‘Helpful insight’ into issues of static fishing gear and safety tips
- 21 October 2024
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- Press release
Sleeping skipper to pay £10k for causing vessel collision
- 9 July 2024
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- Press release
Safety support for fishers after deaths from dredge gear lifting equipment
- 10 May 2024
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- Press release
New plans revealed to support UK’s fishing industry
- 27 March 2024
- Department for Transport and Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- News story
Fishers' medical certificate exemption
- 27 March 2024
- Department for Transport
- Written statement

Does your fishing vessel have a full stability assessment?
- 1 August 2024
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- Research
Effort use statistics February 2019
- 13 March 2019
- Marine Management Organisation
- Statistical data set
Effort statistics January 2019
- 13 February 2019
- Marine Management Organisation
- Statistical data set
Monthly sea fisheries statistics January 2018
- 23 March 2018
- Marine Management Organisation
- National statistics
Effort statistics December 2017
- 6 March 2018
- Marine Management Organisation
- Statistical data set

Cyd-ddatganiad ar Bysgodfeydd: diwygiadau arfaethedig i Atodiad A
- 10 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), The Scottish Government, and Welsh Government
- Open consultation
- Closing date 21 November 2024
Joint Fisheries Statement: proposed amendments to Annex A
- 10 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), The Scottish Government, and Welsh Government
- Open consultation
- Closing date 21 November 2024
Medical Exemption – Existing Fishers on Vessels of 10 Metres and Under
- 27 March 2024
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 27 February 2024
Consultation on the eligibility of fishermen for a British Seamen's Card
- 6 March 2023
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 28 November 2022
Joint Fisheries Statement (JFS)
- 6 December 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), The Scottish Government, and Welsh Government
- Policy paper

MCA: Annual report and accounts 2017 to 2018
- 19 July 2018
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- Corporate report