European subsidies for MOB Guardian, the RNLI-developed fishing safety system, will cease from March. Therefore, we have decided to end production of MOB Guardian, but will continue to support the system for at least another 5 years.

Introduced in 2007, the MOB Guardian man overboard alert system has now been fitted to more than 450 UK fishing vessels. To date, it has saved five lives and provided peace of mind to hundreds more fishermen and their families.

A number of similar commercial products have since appeared on the market, and the decision to cease production takes these into account, as well as the investment required to fund future development of MOB Guardian, and the reduced likelihood of fishermen to buy the system without the European Fisheries Fund subsidies.