Government of Jersey Marine Resources

05/10/2026

Fishing for Ormers will be permitted on selected dates from the 10th October.

- Ensure that you have checked this year’s calendar, and only fish for Ormers on the permitted days. (Calendar is below and on https://www.gov.je/Industry/FarmingFishing/Fishing/Pages/FishingRegulations.aspx -5 along with other important regulations)

- The minimum size is 9cm and the individual daily bag limit is 20.

- If you are low water fishing, please return any stones to their original position to preserve the environment beneath - “Turn it and Return it”.

19/09/2026

Fisheries Officers have removed five unmarked, lightweight pots from the west of St Aubin’s Bay this afternoon. please contact Marine Resources if these belong to you.

02/09/2026

02/09/2026

Please be aware that a soft-shell spider crab closure applies from 1st September to 15th October 2026.

It is not permissible to fish for or retain any soft-shell spider crab during this period. In addition no gillnets, entangling nets, trammel nets or trapnets are permitted in the hatched area shown in the chart attached.

For further details and area co-ordinates, please refer to:

https://www.jerseylaw.je/laws/current/ro_70_2019

https://www.jerseylaw.je/laws/current/ro_9209

18/08/2026

On Friday 12th June, with the help of Channel Seaways, we sent a trial shipment of discarded fishing gear to Waterhaul, a company based in Cornwall that specialises in recycling marine litter into products, and Traceable Marine Plastic. This is a refinement of the fishing gear recycling scheme which is a collaborative project and has been in operation since 2023.

Fishers drop their unwanted gear at a designated site at La Collette. GoJ Marine Resources and Ports of Jersey oversee the collection and disposal of this gear, and the Prison Service organise its sorting and separation into different materials.

We hope that this trial can be expanded and are incredibly grateful to our new collaborators in this project, Waterhaul, and Channel seaways, for helping give our marine litter a second life.

As always, we would encourage anyone wishing to dispose of fishing gear to drop it to our designated site, located in the entrance to the fishermen’s compound, near the top of La Collette slipway.

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18/08/2026

17/07/2026

Static nets must be marked exclusively with red and white floats. These floats are now available for free, in limited quantities at Normans Marine, St Ouens Motorworks, and Howard Davis Farm.

06/07/2026

01/07/2026

Marine Resources have been working with local charter vessel Anna III on a tope and ray tagging effort since 2006. In recent years, three Tope that were tagged in Jersey waters have had remarkable recaptures off the coast of Portugal and France. These fish are equipped with ‘floy’ tags with a unique identification number on. Data can only be received if the animal is recaptured.

Tissue samples are also being collected from tope sharks in Jersey and combined with samples from the Irish Sea and Cardigan Bay for genetic analysis. This forms part of a PhD collaboration between JICAS, Jersey Marine Resources, and the University of Exeter.

This analysis can provide insights into movement patterns, gene flow, and potential population structures. In 2025, 23 tope sharks were successfully sampled over two fieldwork days. Further sampling is planned for later this year, with the goal of collecting at least a total of 30 Jersey samples. This research will help improve our understanding of tope shark populations and support their future conservation and management.

We are very grateful to all the collaborators that have made this effort possible.

30/06/2026

Final day today, thanks to everyone that has responded already!

If you haven’t already completed the recreational fishing survey, there’s only a week to go! (Closing June 30th)

👉 Complete the survey: https://survey.gov.je/s/JRFS2026/

We really appreciate your feedback regardless of experience level, whether you fish regularly or just a handful of times a year. It helps us better understand fishing activity, your views, and the value of recreational fishing to Jersey.

Thanks to those who have already completed the survey.

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