The purpose of this webpage is to provide information on third country rules and regulations which might affect commercial fishing vessels who fish in waters belonging to third countries.
For information on trade and market access please see link to the Trade & Market Access Information page
Notification on real time closures in Faroe Waters
2026 Notification on real time closures in Norway Waters
Change of boarders of closed area around Svalbard, for shrimp trawls
No 12_2026 Norway Note Verbale (Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring in the Fisheries Protection Zone, Svalbard)
No 11_2026 Norway Note Verbale (Closing of an area at Storegga for fisheries with Danish seine and trawl)
No 10_2026 Norway Note Verbale (Closed area around Svalbard, for shrimpfisheries with trawl - SVALBARD I-17,2)
No. 09/2026 Norway_Note Verbale (Regulations regarding the Cod fishery in the North Sea for 2026)
No. 08 2026 Norway Note Verbale (Territorial waters around Svalbard, for shrimp fisheries with trawl)
No 07_2026 Norway Note Verbale (Regulations for fishing by EU Member State–flagged vessels)
No 06_2026 Norway Note Verbale (Change of borders of the closed area at Røstbanken)
No 05_2026 Norway Note Verbale (Reopening of the closed area at Skomvær)
No 04_2026 Norway Note Verbale (Harvesting of wild living marine resources)
No 03_2026 Note Verbale (Economic Zone of Norway and Jan Mayen)
No 02_2026 Norway Note Verbale (Cod fishery in the North Sea & Skagerrak for 2026)
No 01_2026 Norway Note Verbale (Harvesting of wild living marine resources)
2025 Notification on real time closures in Norway Waters
No 12_2025 Note Verbale (Closure of an area at Storegga)
No 11_2025 Note Verbale (Reopening of the areas at Spitsbergenbanken)
No 10_2025 Note Verbale (Reopening of the closed area at Nordsnaget)
No 09_2025 Note Verbale (Amendments to Regulations 19 July 2005 No.1834 on reporting for control of Foreign Vessels engaged in fishing in the Norwegian Economic Zone)
No 08_2025 Note Verbale (Cod Fishery)
No 07_2025 Note Verbale (Atlantic halibut fishery)
No 06_2025 Note Verbale (Shrimp fisheries)
No 05_2025 Note Verbale (Danish seine & trawl)
No 04_2025 Note Verbale (Danish seine & trawl)
No 03_2025 Note Verbale (Harvesting of wild living marine resources)
No 02_2025 Note Verbale (Danish seine & trawl)
No. 01_2025 Note Verbale (Cod fishery)
2024 Notification on real time closures in Norway Waters
No. 15_2024 Note Verbale (Fisheries protection zone)
No. 13_2024 Note Verbale (Cross-boarder fishing)
Any updated licence conditions are published on the UKSIA website
2026 Notifications
2025 Notifications