Licences and permits

The permissions a business needs before it can trade, each one tied to the law that creates it and to the body that issues it. We point at GOV.UK for fees and forms, and never copy them.

8 of 426 licences in Wales for Fisheries

Choose from all 48 activities

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Cockle and mussel fishing permit: Traeth Lafan, Traeth Melynog and Red Wharf Bay (Wales)

Apply for a permit to dredge, fish for or take cockles and mussels from specific areas in north Wales.

Welsh Government · Wales

Fisheries

Cockle fishing licence - Dee Estuary

Cockle licence to fish in the Dee Estuary.

Welsh Government · Wales

Fisheries

Cockle fishing permit: rivers Taf, Tywi and Gwendraeth (Wales)

Apply for a permit to dredge, fish for or take cockles and mussels from the Three Rivers in south Wales.

Welsh Government · Wales

Fisheries

Commercial Inland Fishing Licence

You need a licence to net for salmon and sea trout or fish for eels using nets, trawls or traps

Environment Agency · England and Wales

Fisheries

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Goods vehicle operator licences

You need a goods vehicle operator’s licence if your business uses a goods vehicle with either a gross plated weight (the maximum weight that …

Traffic Commissioners · England, Wales and Scotland

Any trade

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Live fish import notification - within EU (England and Wales)

You need to notify the Fish Health Inspectorate if you import live fish into England or Wales from the European Union

DEFRA · England and Wales

Fisheries

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Notification of imports of live shellfish from within the EU (England & Wales)

You need to give notification to the Fish Health Inspectorate to import live shellfish from within the European Union

DEFRA · England and Wales

Animal products: manufacturing and wholesale · Fisheries

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Seabed lease (England and Wales)

You need a seabed lease from The Crown Estate to operate a marine fish farm in coastal waters

HM Treasury · England and Wales

Fisheries · Marine and marine transport

We have not yet mapped an enabling instrument for 2 licences on this list. That is a gap in our graph, not a statement about the law, and those pages say so rather than guessing.

Checking approvals more broadly?

A licence is one of several things you may need before your first day of trading. The pre-trading quick check walks the registrations, insurances and approvals alongside it.

Run the pre-trading quick check

Not sure which of these apply to you?

Our guides on finding a licence and dealing with your local council walk through the questions that decide it.

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