Statutory Instruments
SEA FISHERIES
CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH
Made
7th March 1990
Laid before Parliament
8th March 1990
Coming into force
11th March 1990
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 1967(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 11th March 1990.
2. The Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989(2) shall be varied by substituting for Schedule 2 thereto (areas of seaand descriptions of sea fish in respect of which prohibition of fishing without licence applies) the Schedule to this Order.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 7th March 1990.
L.S.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sanderson of Bowden
Minister of State, Scottish Office
7th March 1990
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
7th March 1990
Peter Bottomley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
7th March 1990
Article 2
Article 3
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Area of sea | Description of sea fish |
| CECAF Division 34.1.1. (EC Zone) | Cod (Gadhus morhua), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), saithe (Pollachius virens) |
| 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 excluding third country waters | Anglerfish (Lophius spp), cod, Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides), haddock, hake (Merluccius spp), herring (Clupea harengus), mackerel, megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis), Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus), plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), pollack (Pollachius pollachius), redfish (Sebastes spp), saithe, sole (Solea vulgaris), whiting (Merlangius merlangus) |
| ICES Vb excluding Community waters | All |
| ICES VI | Anglerfish, cod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, megrim, Norway lobster, plaice, pollack, saithe, sole, whiting |
| ICES VIIa *(see note below) | Anglerfish, cod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, megrim, Norway lobster, plaice, pollack, saithe, sole, whiting |
| ICES VIIb,c | Anglerfish, cod, haddock, hake, mackerel, megrim, Norway lobster, plaice, pollack, saithe, sole, whiting |
| ICES VIId | Anglerfish, cod, haddock, hake, mackerel, megrim, Norway lobster, plaice, pollack, saithe, sole, sprat (Sprattus sprattus), whiting |
| ICES VIIe *(see note below) | Anglerfish, cod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, megrim, Norway lobster, plaice, pollack, saithe, sole, sprat, whiting |
| ICES VIIf to k | Anglerfish, cod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, megrim, Norway lobster, plaice, pollack, saithe, sole, whiting |
| ICES VIII excluding third country waters | Anglerfish, cod, haddock, mackerel, megrim, saithe |
| 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 |
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)
This Order varies the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989 which prohibits fishing, subject to exceptions, by British fishing boats in specified areas of sea for the principal species of sea fish, unless authorised by a licence.
This Order extends the scope of that prohibition to include fishing for all species of sea fish in ICES IIa (Norwegian Sea) and IV (North Sea) (article 2 and Schedule).
1967 c. 84; section 4 was amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), section 3 and by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), section 20; section 15(3) was amended by the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Schedule 1, paragraph 38(3) and by the Fishery Limits Act 1976, Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1); section 4 was applied in relation to British fishing boats registered in the Isle of Man and any of the Channel Islands by the Sea Fish (Conservation) (Manx Boats) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/281) and the Sea Fish (Conservation) (Channel Islands Boats) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/280); section 22(2)(a) which contains a definition of “the Ministers” for the purposes of sections 4 and 15(3) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b).