Shellfisheries: get exclusive fishing or management rights
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How to apply for a several order or a regulating order.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to apply for a several order or a regulating order. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Check which order you need
- Fishing rights granted by a several order
- Management rights granted by a regulating order
- Who can apply
- Before you apply
- Secure landowner consent
- Speak to other affected parties
- Complete a marine plan policy assessment
- Check if your application might impact relevant protected sites
- MCZs
- SACs, SPAs or Ramsar sites
- SSSIs
- Order an Admiralty chart
- Prepare a 5-year management plan
- Consider if you need a marine licence
- Consider if you need a marine wildlife licence
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Shellfisheries: get exclusive fishing or management rights’ (updated 1 April 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026