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Overview

Use this service to create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.

You can use this service if you are a:

• vessel owner
• skipper

If you are a member of a producer organisation you should not use the online record your catch service and should continue to record your catch using a paper logbook.

All U10m flag vessels need to record their catch. The information is used to help UK fishing authorities manage fishing levels in a sustainable way.

This service replaces:

• the NEP1 form
• the MSAR1 form, however, depending on your location, local IFCAs may require additional information
• the requirement to complete a log book when leasing fish quota and/or when fishing in 2 ICES areas (currently IVc/VIId and VIId/VIIe)

How to get an invite and register

How to get an invite

Vessel owners

All under 10 m fishing vessel owners should have received a letter or an email invite to register by the end of February 2020. New vessel owners, you will receive an email inviting you to register when you licence your under 10 m fishing vessel. The catch recording licence condition has been in place since 2020 and we will begin enforcing the associated licence condition from 28th February 2022.

Skippers

To get an invite email contact the owner of the vessel you work on.

How to register

Vessel owners

When you register, youll be asked to add the ports and gear you normally use and the species you catch for each of your vessels.

Adding this information before your trip makes it quicker to create a catch record. Youll only need to do this once and you can change it in the future.

You can also add skippers to create catch records on your behalf.

Skippers

When you register youll be asked for your address and contact number.

What to record

You must create a catch record for everything you catch on every fishing trip.

Youll be asked for information about your trip and the live weight of what youve caught.

Weights can be converted to live weights by multiplying them by a conversion factor.

If you catch quota species or species subject to catch limits all sizes of fish must be recorded unless exemptions apply.

Please see attached this guidance on how to correctly complete a Catch Record which also includes hints and tips on recording sub rectangles and species.

Catch Recording Guidance

PDF, 1.32 MB, 28 pages

You will also be required to record the area and statistical sub rectangle where the majority of your catch was caught.

ICES Sub Rectangle: North East

PDF, 359 KB, 1 page

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If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need aversion of this document in a more accessible format, please email communications@marinemanagement.org.uk.Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

ICES Sub Rectangle: East

PDF, 404 KB, 1 page

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ICES Sub Rectangle: South East

PDF, 395 KB, 1 page

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