date:Jul 26, 2012
. It was run jointly with the Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority and the Devon and Severn Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA). The fishermens organisation that took part signed a formal agreement with the MMO to test the inshore vessel position monitoring system and to avoid using their demersal towed fishing gears in the specified sensitive areas within the Lyme Bay and Torbay cSAC.
Following the trial, in order to continue to protect the specified parts of t