Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Fisheries Division, Registered Files; UK Fishing Harbours and Grants (GHF series)

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Reference: MAF 642
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Fisheries Division, Registered Files; UK Fishing Harbours and Grants (GHF series)
Description:

This series covers a review of the Harbour Grants Scheme which was undertaken and led to revisions which enabled payments to aid the Fishing Industry to be maintained.
Date: 1988-1993
Related material:

The main series for the Fisheries Divisions is: MAF 209
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: GHF
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Division I, 1957-2001
Physical description: 2 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2014 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Accumulation dates: 1985 onwards
Selection and destruction information: Selected under section 2.2.1.2 of TNA's Acquisition Policy.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

A divisional organisation first emerged in 1957 with the Fisheries Department being divided into first two and then (1972) three numbered divisions. Of these, Division II handled the organisation and structure of the sea fishing industry (including shellfish), marketing of fish and the fish trade, harbours, statistics and economic policy relating to fisheries.

In 1976 there was a re-organisation of the divisional structure, responsibility for harbours and shellfish passing to Division I (though harbours returned to Division II in 1978). From then until recent times Fisheries Division have continued to administer policy and grants under both the Harbours Act 1964 and Fisheries Act 1955.

From 1 April 2010 the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) took over new applications for harbour revision and empowerment orders from the Department of Transport. The MMO is also responsible for processing grant applications and claims in England from the European Fisheries Fund. Port and harbour developments present some of the most complex licensing and environmental challenges.

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