Selling Your Shore Caught Fish

[Elton]

I received this by email. If you know the definite answer, please add your reply here:

 

I have started sea angling from the shore recently and have enjoyed it, I was wondering if it is legal to sell any of the catch, or would I need some kind of license.

[Deepseacodmaster]

I received this by email. If you know the definite answer, please add your reply here:

Boat fish cannot be sold or bartered etc unless the skipper has a commercial licence

That is why I give my surplus to the Old Age pensioners in my village.

If they sometimes give me their home veggies during the season that is up to them

Shore caught fish I do not know but am awaiting an answer like you.

[mr motorola]

I would expect the answer for shore caught fish to be the same Ivan. As far as i know , you still need a license of sorts for selling any perishable foodstuffs. Might be wrong though. Someone on here will know.

[Leon Roskilly]

Article 55 of the EU Fisheries Control Regulation, which came into effect on 1st January 2010, prohibits the marketing of catches by recreational fishermen.

 

 

http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en...t13669.en09.pdf

Edited January 20, 2010 by Leon Roskilly

[Deepseacodmaster]

Article 55 of the EU Fisheries Control Regulation, which came into effect on 1st January 2010, prohibits the marketing of catches by recreational fishermen.

 

 

http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en...t13669.en09.pdf

 

I have posted the Article 55 here to save people wading through the full article

 

http://www.old-glossop.com/pages/Cllr%20Iv...es/fishing.html

 

Thanks Leon

Edited January 20, 2010 by Deepseacodmaster

[Elton]

Are anglers classed as 'recreational fishermen'?

[Deepseacodmaster]

Are anglers classed as 'recreational fishermen'?

 

This is the answer

 

Article 4

Definitions

 

28) "Recreational fisheries" means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine living

aquatic resources for recreation, tourism or sport;

[Leon Roskilly]

This is the answer

 

Article 4

Definitions

 

28) "Recreational fisheries" means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine living

aquatic resources for recreation, tourism or sport;

 

Which begs the question what is 'non-commercial'.

 

ie an angler catching fish and selling them is surely fishing commercially, and therefore not covered by article 55!

 

And assuming that that argument is rejected, where does that leave long-shoreman, who set nets along the beach (mainly for bass and mullet) and sell their catch, but who do not currently (or rather in the past didn't) have need of a commercial licence because they weren't using a powered vessel?

 

Anyone wanting to challenge must bear in mind that the maximum penalty for fishery offences has been increased from £5,000 to £50,000 under the 2010 Marine Act (plus costs!)

[barry luxton]

Before the eu stuck it's nose in i understood that it was ok for anyone to sell as long as the boat did not have an engine. I.e. from the shore, beach or a row, sail boat was not penalised if they sold.

 

Now that the eu have grabbed hold of this are they saying that you no longer will be able to sell?

[big_cod]

Juat do what farmers do swapping food i have swapped fish for a sack of spuds or a peice of meat or a dozen eggs i have a few mates who are farmers and we have swapped between us for years they all seem to love fish i would never take any money anyway so there would never be no money changeing hands i would give them fish for nothing and they would give me spuds etc for nothing.

 

paul.

Edited January 20, 2010 by big_cod