Establish an entitlement or transfer a licence entitlement or licence to another party

A licence entitlement is created when a licence is no longer attached to an active fishing vessel. This may occur when a vessel:

• is sold with or without its licence
• sinks
• is scrapped
• is otherwise deregistered.

Who can apply

Use this application if you;

1) have a licence/licence entitlement that is administered by the Marine Management Organisation

2) are the current licence/licence entitlement holder, or, if you are the executor for the estate of the deceased holder.

3) are one of the licence/licence entitlement holders applying on behalf of all holders. You must have permission from all holders to make this application.

and you need to either;

• Establish a licence entitlement in your name, or
• Transfer the licence/licence entitlement to another party.

Important information

New holders

You do not need to complete this application but you will need to provide the current holder with the following details so they can tell us that they are surrendering their rights to a licence/licence entitlement to you.

The current holder will need the following details for all new holders;

• name
• address
• email address
• mobile phone number
• your company registration number if you are a UK company.

Once Marine Management Organisation receive the application from the current holder, we will notify you by email and you will be able to check the licence/licence entitlement details. If everything is in order, we will aim to send your notification of licence entitlement within 5 working days.

Current holders

Information you will need to complete this application.

1) The current licence or licence entitlement details, these can be found on the:

• fishing vessel licence, or,
• notification of a licence entitlement AFL7 section D, or,
• notification of an entitlement disaggregation AFL19 section F.

2) If you are transferring the licence entitlement to another party, we need the name, address, email and phone number of all new licence entitlement holders.

3) We also require photographic ID for all current licence/licence entitlement holders, such as a copy of passport, driving licence or national identity card so we can complete an identity check. If a holder does not have photographic ID we will accept one of the following: a birth certificate or an old style driving licence.

4) For an executor of an estate, you will need to provide proof of probate.