The MMO have recently published guidance on the management of sea bass.

Bass industry guidance for 2017

Bass fishing guidance 10 February 2017, see all updates

How many fish you can catch, when and where fishing is prohibited, and the minimum conservation reference size (MCRS).

Measures introduced over the last few years have been inadequate and the bass stocks have continued to decline and David Curtis of BASS provides a critique of these measures from the sports angling perspective. This is why we need NGOs like BASS to carefully look at what Government are saying.