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The Fisheries Management and Innovation Group

The Fisheries Management and Innovation Group brings people together to discuss and share knowledge on catching sector issues.

The Fisheries Management Innovation Group (FMIG) provides a safe meeting space to discuss the key challenges facing the UK catching sector. The three key areas for discussion are: legislation and regulation, stock assessment issues and how to introduce new technology.

People take part to keep-up-to-date with the latest developments, to be part of a cross-industry discussion and listen to the issues raised by other parts of the industry. They can also raise their own issues, present new ideas, network with other people or make new contacts.

The group is led by our industry and we take responsibility for running the FMIG. The Group has met twice a year since 2009. The FMIG brings together people who represent the catching sector, as well as the retail, food service and restaurant industries. Other people who attend are not-for-profit environmental voluntary groups, consumer groups, government, scientists and industry bodies.

This group was formerly the Discard Action Group (DAG) and was originally set up as a forum for the discussion of industry-wide problems relating to discards.

There are generally two meetings a year. The presentations and minutes from the most recent meetings are below. Presentations and minutes from previous meetings are available from Karen Green.

We are running a mix of in person meetings and shorter online bite-size FMIG sessions at the moment.

Next meeting

The next meeting is an online bite-size session on Tuesday 17 January 2023. This will run from 2pm to 4pm GMT. Our topic is Fisheries Management Plans (FMPs). For more information contact Karen Green.  

Previous two meetings

FMIG in person meeting. Marine spatial squeeze and intelligent fishing (29 September 2022). This meeting looked at two key issues for the UK catching sector: marine spatial squeeze and the competition for maritime space; and maximising selective gear innovations to help the UK fishing industry advance economic, environmental and social sustainability. See the presentations from this meeting:

Advances in fishing gear technology (13 July 2022). Gear adaptations and selective technologies help to reduce catches of unwanted fish. Gear trials over many years have influenced the gear now being used in commercial fishing. Selective gear innovations can help advance sustainability (economic, environmental and social) in all wild capture fisheries. This meeting looked at recent developments, and government priorities going forward. See the presentations from this session:

Terms of Reference and archive

  • We have archived presentations from previous bite-size meetings. These are available from Karen Green.
  • Notes and minutes on the bite-size meetings can be found below. 
  • Presentations from our face-to-face FMIG and DAG meetings are available from Karen Green
  • View the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the group (March 2019).
  • To be added to the FMIG mailing list to receive our monthly news update and details on meetings please register 

FMIG bite-size notes 

FMIG monthly news alerts

Contacts

For more information about The Fisheries Management and Innovation Group contact 
Karen Green.  

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