Skip to main content
GOV.UK

Blog: Fisheries Management Plans

Organisations:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Dive into FMPs: a look at governance in fisheries management plans

Posted by: Nicola Lewellen - FMP Engagement and Communications, Posted on: 16 July 2025 - Categories: - Defra led FMPs
Diagram titled 'Dive into FMPs' featuring three interconnected circles. The central circle is labelled 'Governance' with a symbol of a gavel. The left circle includes a microscope icon with text 'Partners and experts', and the right circle shows two figures in conversation, labelled 'Stakeholder engagement'.

Are you curious about who shapes FMPs? In part one of our new series, discover who’s who in our governance and their role in influencing sustainable fisheries.

Read more of Dive into FMPs: a look at governance in fisheries management plans - 6 comments

Bass Management Group: progress, priorities and transparency

Posted by: Peter Elliott – Policy Advisor, Defra, Posted on: 26 June 2025 - Categories: - Defra led FMPs, Implementation

The latest meeting of the Bass Management Group reviewed progress and looked at priorities. Also find out about the new GOV.UK page for meeting minutes.

Read more of Bass Management Group: progress, priorities and transparency - 8 comments

Help us to build the evidence we need for the fisheries we want

Posted by: Katie St John Glew - FMP Evidence Lead, Defra, Posted on: 19 June 2025 - Categories: - Defra led FMPs, Evidence
A lobster resting on the sandy sea floor, surrounded by marine life and underwater plants.

Identifying and addressing gaps in evidence is important to achieve FMP goals. Defra funds some research but now is the perfect time to get involved as FaSS funding applications have reopened.

Read more of Help us to build the evidence we need for the fisheries we want
Previous page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 10
  • Page 11
  • Page 12
  • …
  • Page 21
Next page

Related content and links

Defra FMP consultations open

Have your say on four draft plans until 11:59pm on 5 May 2026
(Celtic Sea and Western Channel demersal and pelagic FMPs, seabream FMP and wrasses FMP)

Scotland-led FMP consultation open

Have your say on two draft nephrops plans until 11:55pm on 17 June 2026

About this blog

The Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) blog aims to provide transparency to the programme of work and make it more open and inclusive to all stakeholders.

[Find out more]

Quick links

  • FMP directory
  • FMPs on GOV.UK
  • FMP events
  • Subscribe to get notified of new blog posts
  • Blog participation guidelines
  • Give us feedback on using the blog

Defra FMPs

Click on the links below to go directly to posts that mention that FMP.

  • Bass FMP
  • Celtic Sea and Western Channel demersal FMP
  • Celtic Sea and Western Channel pelagic FMP
  • Channel demersal non-quota FMP
  • Cockle FMP
  • Crab and lobster FMP
  • King scallop FMP
  • North Sea and Channel sprat FMP
  • Queen scallop FMP
  • Seabream FMP
  • Southern North Sea and Channel skates and rays FMP
  • Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel mixed flatfish FMP
  • Southern North Sea demersal non-quota FMP
  • Whelk FMP
  • Wrasses complex FMP

Categories

Follow us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Defra Marine and Fisheries newsletter
  • Defra e-alert
  • MMO Fishers and exporters newsletter
https://youtu.be/-Hs4PYxQumQ?si=FQbjuTME898qlP8M

Useful links

  • All GOV.UK blogs
  • All GOV.UK blog posts
  • GOV.UK
  • All departments
  • Accessibility statement
  • Cookies
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated
© Crown copyright