Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Fisheries Division, Registered Files; Control and Enforcement of Fisheries Policy (CRL series)

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Reference: MAF 641
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Fisheries Division, Registered Files; Control and Enforcement of Fisheries Policy (CRL series)
Description:

This series covers the drafting of legislation and Ministerial submissions on the Market Testing of fisheries protection and the costs involved in providing an alternative civilianised surface surveillance operation, Sea Fishery (Enforcement) Order and a new EC Control Regulation - UK Enforcement Order.

Date: 1992-2008
Related material:

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

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001-

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Division III, 1972-2001

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Division IV, 1976-1985
Physical description: 10 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2014 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Accumulation dates: 1981 onwards
Selection and destruction information: Selected under section 2.2.1.2 of TNA's Acquisition Policy
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Principal legislation to support the various Fisheries Divisions are the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1903, Sea Fisheries Act 1962 and the Sea Fish Industry Act 1970. A divisional organisation first emerged in the Department in 1957 with the Fisheries Department being divided into a number of different divisions; Enforcement being the responsibility of Division III Over the years further restructuring of the divisions occurred and by 1994 the number of fisheries Divisions had again been expanded to four, with Division IV administering the UK fishing quota, licensing of vessels and enforcement policy. Responsibility now rests with the DEFRA Marine and Fisheries Programme.

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