UK Offence Report

The Mackerel (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1997

UK Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 2963 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
16 December 1997
In force from
17 December 1997
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 mackerel in sea areas ICES Statistical Sub-Areas VI, VII, XII and XIV and ICES Statistical Divisions Vb and VIIIa, b, d and e by any British fishing boat which does not exceed 10 metres in length or which is used wholly for the purposes of conveying persons wishing to fish for pleasure (article 2). The prohibitions of fishing set out above shall apply— a within any part of a sea area specified in the Schedule to the Order if the boat is registered in the United Kingdom, or b within any part of such a sea area which lies within British fishery limits if the boat is registered in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or, not being registered, is British-owned, during the period beginning with the date of coming into force of the Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1998 (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, fish caught in contravention of this Order 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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