An Act to establish a Sea Fish Industry Authority with the duty of promoting the efficiency of the sea fish industry in the United Kingdom; to provide financial assistance for that industry; to amend the law relating to the regulation of sea fishing; to make new provision in relation to fish farming; to amend the enactments relating to whales and the importation of live fish; to extend sections 6 and 7 of the Freshwater and Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1976 to the part of the River Tweed outside Scotland; to repeal section 5(3) of the Fishery Board (Scotland) Act 1882; and to enable the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland to incur expenditure on fishery protection in waters adjacent to Northern Ireland.
1981-08-01
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Fisheries Act 1981
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SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4 Exemptions for Fish Farming
Part II Offences to which section 33(5) of this Act Applies
Offences relating to sea fishing
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Any offence under section 1(2) of F1the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (selling, exposing or offering for sale, or possessing for the purpose of sale fish F1which do not meet the prescribed size requirements).