Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) (Scotland) Order 1985
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1985/962 |
| Year | 1985 |
1985 No. 962 (S. 85)
SEA FISHERIES
The Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) (Scotland) Order 198519thJune 1985
5thJuly 1985
26thJuly 1985
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 1 of the Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984 (a) and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf and having consulted such bodies as I consider appropriate, I hereby make the following order:—
Title and commencement
1. This order may be cited as the Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) (Scotland) Order 1985 and shall come into operation on 26th July 1985.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In this order "sea fish" does not include salmon or migratory trout.
(2) Any reference in this order to a numbered column is a reference to the column so numbered in the Schedule to this order.
(3) The periods of prohibition, excepted methods of fishing for species of sea fish and periods of exception specified in columns 3, 4, and 5 respectively are so specified for the purposes of articles 3 and 4 hereof in relation to the sea areas specified in column 2 opposite to which they appear.
Prohibition of fishing with mobile gear
3. Fishing for sea fish with a trawl, Danish seine or similar net, purse seine, ring net or dredge is prohibited in a sea area within Scottish inshore waters specified in column 2 during the period specified in column 3 in relation to such sea area.
Exceptions to prohibition in article 3
4. The prohibition contained in article 3 of this order shall not prevent the use, in a sea area specified in column 2 of the method specified in column 4 during the period specified in column 5, when the method so specified is used in fishing for the species of sea fish also specified in column 4 in the sea area so specified.
(a) 1984 c.26.
Prohibition of fishing for lobsters
5. Fishing for lobsters (Homarus gammarus) in Scapa Flow, being the sea area bounded on the west by a line drawn from a point on the Island of Hoy at 58° 57′.7 North latitude and 03° 19′.5 West longitude (Ba Point) to a point on the Island of Graemsay at 58° 56′.35 North latitude and 03° 18′.725 West longitude (Point of Oxan) to a point on the mainland of Orkney at 58° 57′.175 North latitude and 03° 17′.53 West longitude (The Ness), and on the south by a straight line drawn from a point on the Island of Hoy at 58° 48′.25 North latitude and 03° 08′.7 West longitude (Martello Tower) to a point on the Island of Flotta at 58° 48′.85 North latitude...
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