The Sea Fishing (Specified Western Waters) (Restrictions on Landing) Order 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order consolidates with changes the provisions of the Sea Fishing (Specified Western Waters) (Restrictions on Landing) Order 1980 as varied (“the 1980 Order”). The Order prohibits, with exceptions, the landing in the United Kingdom of sea fish of descriptions specified in Schedule 2 to the Order caught in ICES sub-areas VII or VIII (article 3).

The provisions of this Order differ from those of the 1980 Order which it replaces in the following respects:—

(a) fishing boats registered in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands are included in the definition of a “British fishing boat” (article 2);

(b) the enforcement powers conferred on British sea-fishery officers in relation to fishing boats are included in the text, their powers on land being set out in section 15(2A) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (article 5);

(c) all of the statistical sub-areas and divisions of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea to which the prohibition of landing provisions and exceptions thereto apply are described (Schedule 2);

(d) those descriptions of sea fish caught in particular divisions of ICES VII otherwise than under the authority of a licence as a by catch not exceeding 10 per cent by weight of the landed catch in the course of lawful fishing for another description sea fish, which by virtue of article 4(e) of the Order may be landed in the United Kingdom as an exception to the prohibition on landing provisions, are listed (Schedule 3).