Sea Fish (Specified Sea Area) (Regulation of Nets and Prohibition of Fishing Methods) Order 1989
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1989/1284 |
| Year | 1989 |
1989 No. 1284
SEA FISHERIES
CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH
The Sea Fish (Specified Sea Area) (Regulation of Nets and
Prohibition of Fishing Methods) Order 1989
25thJuly 1989
7thAugust 1989
1stJanuary 1990
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 3(1) and (3), 5(1) and 15(3) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (a) , and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:-
Title, commencement and interpretation
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Sea Fish (Specified Sea Area) (Regulation of Nets and Prohibition of Fishing Methods) Order 1989, and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.
(2) In this Order-
"the Act" means the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967;
"British fishing boat" means a fishing boat which is registered in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or which, not being so registered, is British-owned;
"gill and other specified nets" means any of the following, that is to say gill nets, beach seines, trammel nets, tangle nets, stake nets, drift nets, ring nets, T nets, J nets, hoop nets and any similar nets used for the enmeshing or entrapment of fish, but does not include any trawl, Danish seine or similarly towed net;
"the specified sea area" means that area of sea within British fishery limits lying south of lines of latitude drawn through Haverigg Point in Cumbria, in the West, and Donna Nook in Lincolnshire, in the East but excluding waters in that area which are adjacent to Northern Ireland and are not nearer to any point on the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain or the Isle of Man is measured than to any point on the corresponding Northern Irish baselines.
Prohibition
2.-(1) Subject to article 3 below, in the specified sea area there are hereby prohibited:-
(a) the fishing for sea fish by any British fishing boat with gill and other specifed nets of a mesh size of at least 65 millimetres and not more than 89 millimetres; and(b) the carriage by any British fishing boat of any net of the description contained in subparagraph (a) above.(2) For the purposes of this Article the mesh size shall be determined by stretching the mesh lengthwise and inserting a flat measuring gauge of 2 millimetres in thickness when the net is...
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