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Drag the orange RSS button from the relevant page into your News Reader Drag the URL of this RSS page from the address bar into your News Reader Cut and paste the URL of this RSS page from the address bar into your News Reader Click the back button to return to the MFA site. News from the Marine and Fisheries Agency - a trusted manager of sea fisheries and the marine environment, recognised for our fairness and valued for our professionalism, expertise and high standards http://www.mfa.gov.uk ((23 Feb) The skipper of the Shelley Marie, was ordered to pay £2,115 by Torquay Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to scallop dredging in an area for crabbing vessels... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100223.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100223.htm (22 Feb) £5.25 million in grants has been awarded to the English fishing industry from the European Fisheries Fund... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/press/100222.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/press/100222.htm (1 Feb) So called illegal, unreported and unregulated, fishing (IUU) is worth billions of dollars a year and hits both fish stocks and the efforts to manage fisheries in a sustainable way... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100201.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100201.htm (1 Feb) Eight appointments to the Board of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) have been announced today by the Environment Secretary, Hilary Benn... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/press/100201.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/press/100201.htm (28 Jan) Ways to make the English inshore fleet more sustainable are set out in a paper by Defra’s Sustainable Access to Inshore Fisheries (SAIF) Advisory Group... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100128.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100128.htm (26 Jan) The North Sea (areas IVa, IVb, IVc) has been closed to vessels using towed gear of 100 mm and above for the rest of January... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100126.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100126.htm (25 Jan) The North Sea (areas IVa, IVb, IVc) has been closed to vessels using towed gear of 100 mm and above for the rest of January... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100125.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100125.htm (21 Jan) A Whitstable fish shop director has been fined more than £4,600, in a case brought by the Marine and Fisheries Agency (MFA)... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100121.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100121.htm (12 Jan) The Marine and Coastal Access Act made provision for the marine nature reserve around Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel, to become a marine conservation zone... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100112.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100112.htm (4 Jan) A new measure to further harmonise and simplify fisheries enforcement at sea for over 10-metre fleets has come into force with the start of the new year... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100104.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/100104.htm (15 Dec) Steven Gant has been appointed CEO of the Marine Management Organisation. Steven has had a wide range of experience including a strong academic background in geography and environmental sciences and a spell in MAFF... http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/091215.htm http://www.mfa.gov.uk/news/news/091215.htm