UK Offence Report

The Saithe (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1995

UK Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 3245 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
13 December 1995
In force from
14 December 1995
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 saithe in Sea Areas ICES Statistical Divisions IIa, IIIa, IIIb, c and IIId and Statistical Sub-Area IV during the period beginning with the date of coming into force of the Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1996— i by any fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom within any part of any such sea area, or ii by any British fishing boat registered in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or by any British-owned fishing boat within any part of any such sea area which lies within British fishery limits (article 2). This Order does not apply to any boat over 10 metres in length except in the case of any boat when used for the purpose of conveying persons wishing to fish for pleasure (article 2(2)).“Length” is defined in article 1(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, saithe 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 certain enforcement powers for the purpose of the enforcement of the Order (article 3).

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