Latest News 23rd April 2009 - All NUTFA members are encouraged to join in with a Poster Campaign in their home ports. For full details & download poster click here 21st April 2009 - Paul Joy of NUTFA has been interviewed by the TV program Country File, for a two week piece on discards in the UK compared to the Norwegian system. The program will be shown on BBC 1 at 7pm on the 26th April and 3rd of May. 17th April 2009 - Sharon Bowles MEP writes a formal letter of complaint to the European Commissioner for Competetion about the unfair Cod quota for 2009 Read Full Letter Here 17th April 2009 - Sharon Bowles MEP responds to Mr Irranca-Davies about the unfair Cod quota for 2009 Read Full Letter Here 4th April 2009 - Paul Joy's Letter to Mr Irranca-Davies on allocation of new quota stocks in 2009. Read Full Letter Here 4th April 2009 - We ask for your continued support by renewing your membership for another year, you may wish to (if you have not already) donate/loan additional funds to our fighting fund, as many have already done. - Dave Cuthbert Co-chairman NUTFA. Read Full Letter Here 16th March 2009 - "The track record of DEFRA is riddled with mistakes and incompetence, it is now time to put some of them right", writes Paul Cuthburt in FN. Read Article Here 9th March 2009 - Dave Cuthbert responds to the two tier system. "The next twelve months are going to be extremely difficult and all fishermen need to be more politically aware - the days when fishermen just went to sea landed their fish and then went home are unfortunately times of the past." Read Article Here 16th March 2009 - Dave Cuthbert, co-chairman of the New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association (NUTFA), is advising all skippers with capped licenses to register their boats away from England. Read Article Here 4th February 2008 PRESS RELEASE - NUTFA's response to several recent ill conceived comments in the FN made by some in the Industry regarding NUTFA's Legal action against DEFRA Read Full Release 23rd December 2008 NEWS RELEASE - The New Under Ten Fishermens Association has instructed their team of lawyers to commence legal proceedings against DEFRA. This decision has been taken in light of the refusal by DEFRA to address the imbalance of quota available to the under ten fleet ,and the recent introduction of a two tier license system that will devalue the license of around a third of the English (not the UK) fleet. Read Full Release 11th November 2008 NEWSLETTER - NUTFA has now been in existence for ten months and membership has grown to well over three hundred members fishing out of eighty four different ports, harbours and beaches around the UK. Read more 11th November 2008 Intended Judicial Review Proceedings on behalf of the New Under 10 Metre Fishermans Association Read here Click here for Archived News Video News Fisherman Philip Walsh explains how EU fishing quotas mean he has to throw much of his catch, dead, back into the sea. on this BBC Video Click here or on picture below to view. BBC Video News Fishermen are throwing freshly caught cod back into the sea because of EU fishing quotas. Click on link to view.