UK Offence Report

The Bass (Specified Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1990

UK Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 1156 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
29 May 1990
In force from
27 June 1990
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 bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) by any fishing boat within the areas in England and Wales described in the Schedule during the periods specified therein in relation to each area (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 the above mentioned areas, at a time when the prohibition is in effect, bass are taken on board any fishing boat 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 this Order applies (article 3).

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