local work
Members NIFCA Marks Another Successful V-Notching Year The Authority has completed another strong year of lobster v-notching, with the 2025 report now available on the Northumberland IFCA website. This year, officers v-notched 1,217 lobsters, bringing the total to almost 23,000 since the work first began in 2000. Each v-notch protects a female lobster from being landed for around two to three years. This gives the animal time to breed and helps maintain a sustainable local fishery. The 2025 report outlines how lobsters were purchased from local wholesalers, measured, v-notched, and released across five sectors of the district in areas of hard ground. The work was carried out through the summer months when lobsters are most abundant. This is the second year of the scheme since it restarted in 2024, following earlier success between 2000 and 2017.
NIFCA thanks everyone who has supported the programme and helped keep it moving forward.
READY TO LEARN MORE?
view the NIFCA 2025 v-notching report here
more about our lobster and crab fishery
view the nifca v-notching film
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