THE FMPs ARE COMING!
That’s not the title of a 1950s B movie by the way, but Fisheries Management Plans (FMPs) which will be arriving in the near future and before we know it, we anglers will be involved in deciding how they will work. In fact, we already are.
As a consequence of leaving the EU ( Brexit), the Government has brought into law the Fisheries Act 2020 and later announced that FMPs would be the next step towards the UK becoming an independent maritime state – what was commonly referred to as "taking back control of our waters" during the pre-Brexit debates. As a result, we can now decide how to manage the fish stocks that swim in our
