1990 No. 1014
The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) (No. 2) Order 1990
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
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 4, 15(3), 20(1) and 22(2)(a) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 19671, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Title and commencement1
This Order may be cited as the Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) (No. 2) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 24th May 1990.
Variation of the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989
2
The Sea Fish Licensing Order 19892 shall be varied in accordance with articles 3 to 6 below.
3
In article 2 thereof (interpretation)—
a
there shall be inserted after the definition of “mile” the following definition—
“Moroccan waters” means any waters which are under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Morocco;
b
there shall be inserted at the end the following definition—
“United States' exclusive economic zone” means a zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States of America, the seaward boundary of which is a line drawn in such a manner that each point on it is 200 miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea of the United States of America is measured.
4
In article 3 thereof (prohibition of fishing without a licence and exceptions thereto)—
a
in paragraph (1) there shall be inserted after the words “sea fish” the words “(other than salmon or migratory trout)”;
b
in paragraph (2)(b)(vi) there shall be substituted for the words from “adjacent to England” to the end the words “within a zone delimited by a line running due south from Landguard Point in 51°56' north latitude and 1°19,1' east longitude to 51°33' north latitude and thence due west to a point on the coast of England”;
c
in paragraph (2) there shall be inserted at the end the following sub-paragraph—
c
by any boat used wholly for the purpose of conveying persons wishing to fish for pleasure with rod and line or by handline.
5
For Schedule 2 thereto (areas of sea and descriptions of sea fish in respect of which prohibition of fishing without licence applies) there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Order.
6
In Schedule 3 thereto (areas of sea and descriptions of sea fish caught therein to which retention on board provisions apply) there shall be omitted in column 1 the entry “ICES VIIa *(see note below)” and in column 2 the entry “Cod, plaice, whiting”.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 23rd April 1990.
SCHEDULECONTAINING NEW SCHEDULE 2 TO THE SEA FISH LICENSING ORDER 1989
SCHEDULE 2AREAS OF SEA AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SEA FISH (OTHER THAN SALMON AND MIGRATORY TROUT) IN RESPECT OF WHICH PROHIBITION OF FISHING WITHOUT LICENCE APPLIES
Column 1
Column 2
Area of sea
Description of sea fish
CECAF Division 34.1.1. (EC Zone)
Cod (Gadus morhua), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), saithe (Pollachius virens)
Moroccan waters
All
ICES I
All
ICES IIa
All
ICES IIb
All
ICES IIIa
Mackerel (Scomber scombrus), saithe
ICES IIIb, c excluding third country waters
Mackerel, saithe
ICES IIId excluding third country waters
Mackerel, saithe
ICES IV
All
ICES Va
All
ICES Vb
All
ICES VI
All
ICES VIIa *(see note below)
All
ICES VIIb, c
All
ICES VIId
All
ICES VIIe *(see note below)
All
ICES VIIf to k
All
ICES VIII
All
ICES IX
Cod, haddock, saithe
ICES X
Cod, haddock, saithe
ICES XII
All
ICES XIV
All
NAFO sub-area 1
All
NAFO sub-area 2
All
NAFO sub-area 3
All
United States' exclusive economic zone
All
Note. Where an entry in column 1 of this Schedule is marked with an asterisk the following waters are excluded from the area of sea referred to in that entry— Waters lying within 12 miles of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands respectively is measured, but not extending beyond a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points of such baselines and the corresponding baselines adjacent to the United Kingdom and France respectively.
(This note is not part of the Order)