Working with others: Marine Fisheries Stakeholder Forum
The Marine Fisheries Stakeholder Forum is a high-level advisory group which meets to discuss marine fisheries issues and contribute to the development of policies. The Forum, which met for the first time in April 2006, replaces the Stakeholders’ Advisory Group set up to work on the preparation of Securing the Benefits which sets out our plans for achieving a sustainable and profitable future for UK fishing.
Terms of reference and membership [PDF] (35 KB)
Meetings are held with Defra to discuss matters that fall specifically to Defra and with all four Fisheries Administrations to discuss UK-wide issues. Forum members include representatives of the fishing industry, recreational anglers, Sea Fisheries Committees, Regional Advisory Councils, fish processors, environmental interests and Regional Development Agencies.
Professor Michel Kaiser, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, chairs the forum.
Regular meetings are held and we will publish agendas and papers below, these documents are PDFs.
For more information please email: marine.fish@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Papers for meeting 10 September 2008
- Agenda [PDF] (KB)
Papers for meeting 7-8 April 2008
- Minutes (122 KB)
- Paper 1 for Session 2: Fisheries MPAs (Experimental Marine Protected Areas for fisheries management purposes) (1.41 MB)
- Paper 2: Executive Summary from University of Newcastle study for Defra (Marine Protected Areas for Management of Temperate North Atlantic Fisheries) (79 KB)
- Presentation 1: The UK Government's marine vision and Marine Protected Areas (2.07 MB)
- Presentation 2: JNCC's approach to Offshore Natura Consultation and feedback from the RACs' meeting on marine protected areas (1.36 MB)
- Presentation 3: Natural England's MPA Programme (820 KB)
- Presentation 4: Finding Sanctuary approach to developing an MPA network for South West England: integrating science and stakeholders (7.95 MB, large file size)
- Presentation 5: The Scottish Government approach to MPAs in the seas around Scotland (66 KB)
- Presentation 6: Draft criteria that Defra is developing for designating fisheries MPAs (33 KB)
- Presentation 7: School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor Universit approach to Biological and socio-economic considerations in MPA design (1.15 MB)
Papers for meeting 23 November 2007
- Agenda [PDF] (31 KB)
- Minutes [PDF] (57 KB)
- Paper 2: Accessing fisheries - a discussion paper [PDF] (33 KB)
- Accessing Fisheries - how much and what kind of government intervention [PDF] (51 KB)
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Page last modified: 23 October 2008
Page published: 11 January 2008