The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has today 9 October 2025 published the outcome of its quality assessment into the landing data for under-10m vessels from Catch Recording for 2024. This fulfils a commitment made last year when MMO voluntarily suspended its accredited official statistics designation of the Sea Fisheries Statistics publications.

Catch Recording is a service for skippers of U10m fishing vessels registered in England, Wales and Isle of Man to record their catch and submit their records directly to their respective fisheries authority. It offers several routes to report data: through a dedicated mobile app, web browser or by phone. Data collected via the Catch Recording service was introduced into the MMO official statistics in place of data captured via Sales Notes fr

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