Undersized Crabs (Variation) Order 1989

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1989/2443
Year1989

1989No. 2443

SEA FISHERIES

CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Undersized Crabs (Variation) Order 1989

Made

21stDecember1989

Laid before Parliament

8thJanuary1990

Coming into force

1stFebruary1990

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland and Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1(1) and (2), 20(1) and 22(2)(b) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 ( a) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf and the said Minister, the said Secretaries of State and the Secretary of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1(3) and (4), 20(1) and 22(2)(a) of the said Act and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Undersized Crabs (Variation) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st February 1990.

Variation of the Undersized Crabs Order 1986

2. The Undersized Crabs Order 1986 ( b) shall be varied-

(a) by substituting for article 5 thereof the following article:-

"Prescribed minimum size for carriage of crabs on a British fishing boat.

5.-(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this article, for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Act (which prohibits the carriage on a British fishing boat of sea fish of any description which are of less than the minimum size prescribed in relation to sea fish of that description) there is hereby prescribed as the minimum size for edible crab a size of 125 mm.

(2) In the Cumbrian sea fisheries district ( c) and in that area of sea lying within British fishery limits and between lines of latitude drawn through the easternmost points on the boundaries between Humberside and Lincolnshire in the North and Suffolk and Essex in the South the prescribed minimum size for edible crab for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Act shall be 115mm.".

(b) by substituting for the Schedule thereto the following Schedule:-

(a) 1967 c.84; section 1 was substituted by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c.29), section 19(1); section 22(2) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45.

(b) S.I. 1986/497.

(c) As defined in S.I. 1980/806.

SCHEDULE

Article 3

MINIMUM LANDING SIZES

Column 1

Column 2

Area for purposes of section 1(1) of the Act

Prescribed minimum size

South coast of England between the eastern boundary of East

Male crabs

140 mm

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