Due to the very poor weather and atrocious road conditions in Northumberland and north of the river Tyne, the NIFCA office will close today at 3pm and be closed tomorrow when the weather forecast is for even worse conditions and hopefully re-open Friday morning.

Best wishes to everybody for safe journeys.

Link HERE to video regarding gear marking – this will be of interest to commercial and recreational boat users.

Maritime charities Seafarers UK and Cornwall Rural Community Charity (CRCC) are working together to carry out a UK-wide project to survey fishermen, their families and fishing communities. The survey aims to understand community and individual needs and challenges better, and to identify examples of projects or activities that are working to tackle these.

Link to obtain further information – http://www.seafarers.uk/news/national-survey-to-give-a-voice-to-fishing-communities.

Link to the survey – https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/fishing17

The European Commission has determined that bass stocks remain under pressure despite the measures taken in previous years. It has placed further restrictions on the commercial and recreational fishing sectors in order to address this.

Please see our poster giving information regarding these bass regulations for Recreational Sea Anglers for 2018 HERE

Please feel free to contact us if you require any further information.