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New Fisheries Agency Launched
01 Nov 2005
It will carry out fisheries inspection and enforcement work previously done by the Sea Fisheries Inspectorate and will also be responsible for administering fishing licensing and quota regimes, the provision of grants and advice to the fishing sector, collating and analysing statistical data on UK fisheries, and providing some marine conservation services.
The agency was created following a recommendationmade by the Review of Marine Fisheries and Environmental Enforcement and is part of a wider restructuring of DEFRA's Marine Fisheries and Environment teams. Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw said, ‘Our aim is to manage fisheries more effectively within a healthy and flourishing marine environment, and the new Marine Fisheries Agency will play a big part in ensuring this happens.’
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