The Fishing Boats (France) Designation Order 1965

Statutory Instruments

1965 No. 1241

SEA FISHERIES

FISHERY LIMITS

The Fishing Boats (France) Designation Order 1965

Made

8th June 1965

Coming into Operation

18th June 1965

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State for Scotland and the Home Department (being the Secretaries of State concerned with sea-fishing in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively) in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 1 of the Fishery Limits Act 1964 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf hereby make the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Fishing Boats (France) Designation Order 1965 and shall come into operation on 18th June 1965.

2.—(1) For the purposes of this Order:—

“the Act” means the Fishery Limits Act 1964;

“demersal fish” means all sea fish other than salmon, migratory trout, mackerel, clupeoid fishes, sand eels, Norway pout, smelts, eels, great weevers, crustaceans and molluscs (other than squids).

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if this Order and the Order hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.

3.  The Fishing Boats (France) Designation Order 1964(1) is hereby revoked.

4.—(1) France is hereby designated for the purpose of section 1(3) of the Act.

(2) The areas in which fishing boats registered in France may fish in the outer belt of the fishery limits of the British Islands shall be:—

(a) the whole of the outer belt surrounding the islands referred to in the 2nd column of Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b) the areas which respectively lie between the demarcation lines drawn from the landmarks, and in the true directions mentioned in the 2nd column of Schedule 2 to this Order in respect of each such area as aforesaid.

(3) The descriptions of sea fish for which such fishing boats may fish shall be those specified in the 3rd column of the said Schedules to this Order in respect of each such area as aforesaid.

5.  Section 2 of the Act shall apply to fishing boats registered in France.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 3rd June 1965.

L.S.

Frederick Peart

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Given under the Seal of the Secretary of State for Scotland on 4th June 1965.

L.S.

William Ross

Secretary of State for Scotland

Given under the Hand of the Secretary of State for the Home Department on 8th June 1965.

Frank Soskice

Secretary of State for the Home Department

SCHEDULE 1

		Column 3
Column 1	Column 2	Descriptions of
Area	Islands	sea fish
1.	Sulisker and North Rona	Lobsters; crawfish
2.	St. Kilda group	Lobsters; crawfish

SCHEDULE 2

	Column 2	Column 3
Column 1	Demarcation lines, Landmarks and	Descriptions of
Area	directions	sea fish
	ENGLAND AND WALES
3.	1. Morecambe Bay Light Vessel—East	Demersal fish
	2. Point Lynas Lighthouse—North
4.	1. Bardsey Island Lighthouse—South-west	Lobsters; crawfish
	2. South Bishop Lighthouse—North-west
5.	1. South Bishop Lighthouse—North-west	Lobsters; crawfish;
	2. Skokham Island Lighthouse—South	demersal fish
6.	1. Skokham Island Lighthouse—South	Demersal fish
	2. Hartland Point Lighthouse—North-west
7.	1. Hartland Point Lighthouse—North-west	Lobsters; crawfish;
	2. Longships Lighthouse—South-west	demersal fish
8.	1. Longships Lighthouse—South-west	Lobsters; crawfish;
	2. Eddystone Lighthouse—South	escallops; demersal fish
9.	1. Eddystone Lighthouse—South	Demersal fish
	2. Selsey Bill—South
10.	1. Selsey Bill—South	Lobsters; crawfish;
	2. Beachy Head Lighthouse—South	demersal fish
11.	1. Beachy Head Lighthouse—South	Demersal fish
	2. Dungeness New Lighthouse—South
12.	1. Dungeness New Lighthouse—South	Herring; demersal fish
	2. North Foreland Lighthouse—East
13.	1. North Foreland Lighthouse—East	Demersal fish
	2. Lowestoft Lighthouse—East
	SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND
14.	1. Cape Wrath Lighthouse—North-east	Lobsters; crawfish;
	2. Butt of Lewis Lighthouse—West	demersal fish
15.	1. Butt of Lewis Lighthouse—West	Lobsters; crawfish
	2. Barra Head Lighthouse—West
16.	1. Barra Head Lighthouse—West	Lobsters; crawfish;
	2. Port Stewart Lighthouse—North	demersal fish
17.	1. Sanda Island Lighthouse—South-west	Demersal fish
	2. Haulbowline Rocks Lighthouse—South-east
	3. Mull of Galloway Lighthouse—South
	ISLE OF MAN
18.	1. Jurby Head Church—West	Demersal fish
	2. Chicken Rock Lighthouse—South-east
	CHANNEL ISLANDS
19.	1. L'etac de Sark—South-west	Crabs; demersal fish
	2. Alderney Lighthouse—North-east

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order revokes and re-enacts with modifications the provisions of the Fishing Boats (France) Designation Order 1964. France is designated as a country whose registered fishing boats are accorded fishing rights within areas of the outer belt of the fishery limits of the British Islands. The areas and the descriptions of fish which may be fished for are specified.

The Order also provides that French fishing boats may fish for a transitional period within part of the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands.

(1)

(1964 III, p. 3576).