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Milford Haven: Wales' largest fishing port is base of FPV Rhodri Morgan, the largest of the government's ships. The division maintains a multi-million pound fleet consisting of five Fisheries Patrol Vessels (FPVs)—high speed boats used for law enforcement and protecting the fishing industry from illegal activity.
Milford Haven is an Anglicization of an old Scandinavian name "Melrfjordr" that was first applied to the waterway – the Old Norse Melr, meaning sandbank, and fjordr, meaning fjord or inlet, developing into "Milford"; then later the term "Haven" from the Germanic word Haven for port or harbour was added.
Cover of the order creating the North-Eastern Sea Fisheries District, July 1890. In England and Wales, a Sea Fisheries Committee (SFC; also known in some cases as a Sea Fisheries District Committee), of which there were as many as twelve at one time, was the body responsible for managing a corresponding Sea Fisheries District.
Milford Haven Port* - The third largest port in the UK and a strategic energy hub [4] Pembroke Port [3] [dubious – discuss] Saundersfoot Harbour* Burry Port harbour; Llanelli; Cardiff port entrance at low tide
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Milford Haven Waterway is an exceptional example of a ria (a system of valleys drowned by post-glacial rise in sea level) that consists of a number of estuaries, embayments and inlets. Cliffs in the southern regions are mostly developed in rocks of the Old Red Sandstone, whereas the geology of the upper reaches is relatively complex. In the ...
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Milford Haven is the second largest settlement in Pembrokeshire, with a population of 13,100; [28] though its community boundaries make it the most populous in the county, with 13,096 people. [29] As a community, Milford Haven takes in the town of Milford Haven itself and the villages of Hakin, Hubberston, Liddeston, Steynton and Thornton.