Regional Fisheries Groups - South 7d

Decision record – RJU_7DE – Jan 2024’

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Successes in the South 7d:

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 notes:

• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d 11.09.24 (PDF, 1.27 MB, 21 pages)
• Cuttlefish Action Plan Workshop Channel Demersal NQS FMP - information sheet (PDF, 231 KB, 2 pages)
• Cuttlefish management measures workshop: 15.02.24 (PDF, 1 MB, 25 pages)
• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d 18.01.24 (PDF, 6.83 MB, 68 pages)
• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d 09.05.23 (PDF, 322 KB, 8 pages)
• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d 12.01.23 (PDF, 449 KB, 8 pages)
• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d 28.04.21 (PDF, 194 KB, 5 pages)
• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d 02.11.21 (PDF, 259 KB, 5 pages)
• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d 27.07.21 (PDF, 1.66 MB, 5 pages)
• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d 01.02.22 (PDF, 361 KB, 7 pages)
• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d 31.05.22 (PDF, 268 KB, 9 pages)
• RFG Meeting Notes South 7d - 06 09 2022 (PDF, 346 KB, 7 pages)

Collaborative Science:

• Collaborative Science – South 7d (PDF, 167 KB, 4 pages)

7D landings data

• Landings Presentation South 7d 2016-2023 (PDF, 267 KB, 5 pages)

Quota presentations:

• RFG Quota Presentation South 7d 18.01.24 (PDF, 2.7 MB, 13 pages)
• RFG Quota Presentation South 7d 09.05.23 (PDF, 1.45 MB, 32 pages)
• RFG Quota Presentation South 7d. 12.01.23 (PDF, 1020 KB, 10 pages)
• RFG Quota Presentation South 7d 28.04.21 (PDF, 958 KB, 11 pages)
• RFG Quota Presentation South 7d 27.07.21 (PDF, 1.31 MB, 19 pages)
• RFG Quota Presentation South 7d 02.11.21 (PDF, 1.02 MB, 11 pages)
• RFG Quota Presentation South 7d 01.02.22 (PDF, 846 KB, 9 pages)
• RFG Quota Presentation South 7d 31.05.22 (PDF, 967 KB, 13 pages)
• RFG Quota Presentation South 7d - 06 09 2022 (PDF, 969 KB, 10 pages)