Prosecutions

Our approach to prosecutions is in line with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' Enforcement Policy Statement and the Code for Crown Prosecutors.

We published our Compliance and Enforcement Strategy (PDF 92 KB) in September 2011.

For further information please contact us at info@marinemanagement.org.uk

2012: (4 May) Master fined for landing species from closed fishery

The owner, Christopher Charles Dyer, and master, Adrian Russell Buckley, of the Emma Raitch (LT442), pleaded guilty after failing to comply with a licence condition by landing a species for which the fishery was closed at Lowestoft Magistrates' Court on 3 May 2012.; (14 March) Owner and master fined for technical conservation offences; (12 March) Breaking licence condition costs skipper and owner; (12 March) Illegal fishing in Lyme Bay protected area; (18 January) Master and owner fined for twine thickness offences
2011: (23 December) Fish merchant and owner fined for 30 counts of failing to comply with various fisheries legislation; (25 November) Company fined for failing to submit sales notes; (21 November) Master/owner fined for trawl net offences; (21 November) Merchant and buyer plead guilty to storing and transporting undersized lobsters; (21 October) Master and owner fined for logbook and net offences; (5 September) Master and owner fined for logbook and landing declaration offences; (10 August) Judge orders vessel to be confiscated; (3 August) Owner and master ordered to pay more than £50,000 for fishing offences; (28 July) Owner and master fined for fisheries offences; (19 July) Owner and master fined for retaining undersized scallops; (12 July) Owner and master fined for fisheries offences; (11 July) Owner and masters fined for fisheries offences; (21 June) Owner and master fined for logbook offences; (15 June) Owner and master fined for fisheries offences; (14 June) Owner and master fined for exceeding quota; (21 April) Owner and master fined for retaining undersized lobsters and failing to comply with a requirement of an enforcement officer; (15 April) Confiscation orders and fines for partnership and fishing company; (14 April) Owner and master fined for catch composition/mesh size offences; (14 January) Judge orders boat to be forfeited
2010: (22 October) Owner and master to pay £18,230 for failing to keep an accurate logbook; (12 October) Owner and master to pay £9,250 for fisheries offences; (8 October) Owner and master to pay £6,722 for failing to maintain an accurate logbook; (6 August) Owner and master to pay £11,850.31 for exceeding twine thickness rules and using an illegal net attachment; (26 July) Owner and master to pay £17,460 for exceeding twine thickness rules and using illegal net attachments; (2 July) Owner and master to pay £14,950 for misreporting plaice and exceeding twine netting thickness; (24 June) Owners and master to pay £11,000 for misreporting sole; (21 June) Rye fish merchant to pay £8,500 for late sales notes; (21 June) Owners and skipper fined for undersized scallops; (4 June) Brixham fishermen to pay almost £25,000 for false information (Press release 05/10); (24 May) French master and owner fined for logbook and net offences; (22 April) North Shields fishermen fined for logbook offences (Press release 03/10); (13 April) Brixham fisherman fined for undersized scallops (Press release 02/10); (23 March) French stern trawler fished inside closed cod box; (23 February) Skipper ordered to pay £2,115 for fishing in a prohibited area