Formal Consultation – Minimum Sizes Byelaw 2019
Eastern IFCA is undertaking a formal consultation for the Minimum Sizes Byelaw 2019. This byelaw intends to protect fish and shellfish stocks through preventing or reducing the removal of pre-spawning individuals.
This byelaw will replace the Fish, Mollusc and Crustacea Minimum Size emergency byelaw 2019 with a permanent byelaw to the same effect.
More information about the byelaw can be found within the two-page summary by clicking here.
The deadline for responses is 12pm on 6th April 2020.
Please send your responses to: Eastern IFCA, 6 North Lynn Business Village, Bergen Way, King’s Lynn, PE30 2JG
And please post a copy to:
Marine Conservation and Enforcement Team, Marine Management Organisation, Lancaster House, Hampshire Court, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE4 7HY
Email: IFCAbyelaws@marinemanagement.org.uk
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this consultation, you are welcome to speak to Eastern IFCA staff at our office in person, via email or over the phone. The full text of the byelaw, associated Impact Assessments and further information can be inspected at the links below
Alternatively, hard copies can be obtained from:
Address: Eastern IFCA, 6 North Lynn Business Village, Bergen Way, King’s Lynn, PE30 2JG.
Tel: 01553 775321
Email: mail@eastern-ifca.gov.uk;
Website: www.eastern-ifca.gov.uk.
Update 08/04/2020 – This consultation is now closed.