UK Offence Report

The Plaice (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1988

UK Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 2197 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
16 December 1988
In force from
17 December 1988
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
Made under
Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order prohibits fishing for plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)– a by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man within any part of a sea area specified in the Schedule to the Order, or b by any British fishing boat registered in any of the Channel Islands or by any British-owned fishing boat within any part of such a sea area which lies inside British fishery limits (article 2). By virtue of section 5(6) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (as amended by section 22(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981), where, in the course of any fishing operations conducted in any of the above-mentioned sea areas, plaice are taken on board a boat to which this Order applies, those fish shall (subject to section 9 of that Act) be returned to the sea forthwith. British sea-fishery officers are given enforcement powers in relation to boats to which the Order applies (article 3). The Order ceases to have effect on 1st January 1989.

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