Sea and intertidal fisheries

Guidance and services

• Apply for a fishing permit
• Three Rivers cockle fishery
• Fishing for whelks: guidance, permits and legislation
• Recreational potting for lobster, crawfish, crab, prawn and whelk
• Scallop dredging north (Byelaw 12): authorisation and permit conditions
• Scallop dredging south (Byelaw 40): authorisation and permit conditions
• Wellbeing support for commercial fishermen and families
• Support for marine businesses and investors
• Application form for fishing exemptions
• Apply to remove mussels from the Conwy Bay mussel fishery
• Bass fishing: 2025 guidance
• Apply to take undersized mussels by vessel
• Fishing vessel licences and variations
• Fishing licence documents for commercial fishing vessels
• Monthly catch form for undersized mussels
• Catch recording: frequently asked questions
• Legislation for crustacean fisheries
• Commercial fishers to report mortality and injury (bycatch) of marine mammals
• Landing obligation (discard ban)
• Registered buyers and sellers of fish and shellfish
• Fishing vessel logbook: guidance
• Common Fisheries Policy
• Fisheries offences: financial administrative penalties guidance
• Complete transport documents for fisheries products
• Report tagged rays and skates
• Minimum conservation reference size (MCRS) of sea bass
• Small Scale Coastal Infrastructure Scheme
• Apply for the Seafood Resilience Scheme: Welsh Aquaculture and Welsh Fisheries
• Inshore vessel monitoring systems
• Fishing quota management
• Joint Fisheries Statement and Fisheries Management Plans
• Wales Coasts and Seas Partnership (CaSP Cymru)
• Vessel Monitoring System for under 12m vessels (iVMS): important update
• Fisheries: preparing for 1 January 2021
• North Wales cockle and mussel fishery
• Manage fishing permits and catch returns: privacy notice
• Manage fishing permits and catch returns: terms and conditions
• ICES Rectangles and Sub-Rectangles map
• Llanfairfechan and Penmaenmawr razor clam fishery
• Conwy Bay and estuary mussel fishery
• Shellfisheries: Several Orders and Regulating Orders
• Several and Regulating Orders: additional information form
• Several and Regulating Orders: management plan guidance
• Bluefin Tuna Catch and Release Recreational Fishery
• Submit a bluefin tuna catch and release return
• Bluefin Tuna Catch and Release Recreational Fishery: guidance
• Bluefin Tuna Catch and Release Recreational Fishery: application form
• A Guide to The Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024
• Cockle fishing: specified area maps
• Whiteford Sands Cockle Fishery

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• North Western and North Wales inshore fishery legislation
  Legislation
• South Wales inshore fishery legislation
  Legislation
• Scallop dredging in Cardigan Bay
  Collection
• Assessment of the potential for aquaculture
  Report
• The Menai Strait (East) Mussel and Oyster Fishery Order 2022: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• The Menai Strait (East) Oyster and Mussel Fishery Order 2022: documents and map
  Legislation
• The Sea Fishing Operations (Monitoring Devices)(Wales) Order 2022: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Wales Whelk Advisory Group
  Policy and strategy
• Wales Whelk Advisory Group meetings
  Collection
  Wales Whelk Advisory Group (WWAG)
• Assessing Welsh Fisheries Activities project
  Collection
• Animal Welfare Committee: update to the 2014 Farm Animal Welfare Committee opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing
  Report
• Crab and Lobster Fisheries Management Plan
  Policy and strategy
  Crab and Lobster Advisory Group
• Wales Sea Bass Advisory Group meetings
  Collection
  Wales Sea Bass Advisory Group
• Wales King Scallop Advisory Group meetings
  Collection
  Wales King Scallop Advisory Group
• Pre-consultation on Crab and lobster fisheries management plan
  Report
• Crab and lobster fisheries management plan: recreational sector engagement report
  Report
• Wales Coasts and Seas Partnership (CaSP Cymru) meetings
  Collection
  Wales Coasts and Seas Partnership (CaSP Cymru)
• Wales Marine Action and Advisory Group (WMAAG) meetings
  Collection
  Wales Coasts and Seas Partnership (CaSP Cymru)
• Review of the practice of shore-based netting in Wales
  Report
  Wales Sea Bass Advisory Group
• Call for evidence: shore-based netting in Wales
  Policy and strategy
  Wales Sea Bass Advisory Group
• Crab and Lobster Advisory Group meeting: 29 October 2024
  Meeting
  Crab and Lobster Advisory Group