The Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1996

Amendment of principal Order

2.—(1) The principal Order shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article.

(2) Article 8 shall be amended by–

(a) deleting the headnote and substituting therefor “Prohibition of fishing for crustaceans”; and

(b) inserting after paragraph (1), the following:–

“(1A) Fishing for squat lobsters (Munida rugosa), spiny lobsters (Palinurus vulgaris), green shore crabs (Carcinus maenas), brown crabs (Cancer pagurus) and velvet crabs (Necora puber) in Scapa Flow, being the area specified in paragraph (2) below, is prohibited from the first day of June to the fifteenth day of September, both dates inclusive, in each year.”.

(3) Schedule 1 shall be amended–

(a) at item 18, by deleting the entries in columns 3 and 4 and substituting for the entry in column 4 “1st January to 31st December in each year”; and

(b) at item 26, by deleting, in the entry in column 2, the words “two miles” and substituting therefor “one mile”.

(4) The words–

(a) “sea areas” where they appear in articles 2(3), 3, 5 and 6; and

(b) “sea area” where they appear in articles 4, 7, 8, 8A, Schedule 1 (in the heading of, and in the entries at items 5 and 6 in, column 2), Schedule 2 (in the heading of, and in the entries at items 1 and 2 in, column 2) and Schedule 3 (in the heading of, and in the entries at items 1 and 2 in, column 2),

shall be deleted and there shall be substituted therefor the word “area”.