Commercial fisheries in Jersey play an important role in the daily life and economy of the island and remain an important fishing ground for French vessels, despite changes in access under the new EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). The territorial waters around Jersey therefore have the potential to be subject to intense fishing activity. Currently 6.5% of Jersey’s territorial waters are currently protected from mobile fishing gear (principally trawling and dredging), yet this still falls short of the 10% suggested by the Convention on Biological Diversity and the 30% by 2030 as outlined by Global Ocean Alliance and High Ambition Coalition. Several parties, including the Blue Marine Foundation, are making the case for further expansion of Jersey’s protected marine zones which may include a Marine Park around some of the island that could exclude mobile fishing gears, such as trawling and dredging. Closing off designated areas of the sea to specific fishing activities is just one element of marine environmental protection. To go further, a more holistic approach is required such as the implementation of a ‘low impact’ fisheries model. Through working with key stakeholders, BLUE intend to deliver such a model for Jersey. What constitutes ‘low impact’ is not currently well defined, similarly neither is the definition of what constitutes a low impact fisheries model, so there is a need in the UK fisheries sector to identify objective, transparent and workable low impact fishing criteria. The Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) worked with the New Economics Foundation (NEF), Marine Resources Assessment Group (MRAG) and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) in 2019-2020 on a project for Defra that sought to co-design, with fisheries stakeholders, principles that can be used to define low impact fishing. It is on these key principles that the components of a low impact fisheries model have been based around for this consultancy project, as it is the most recent work available on the topic. A low impact fisheries model for Jersey may combine several aspects, including: seabed habitat protection through protected areas; sustainable stock management through flexible catch allowances and codes of conduct; use of selective fishing gears; lowering fleet carbon emissions; reducing plastic use and waste; minimising negative social impact and improving fish welfare.