The Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Regulations 1998

Direct transfers of fishery products on local markets

41.—(1) Regulations 33 to 39 shall not apply to a direct transfer to a retailer or final consumer in the United Kingdom of a small quantity of fishery products by a fisherman.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a “small quantity” means an amount which comprises part of the fisherman’s annual allowance.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a fisherman’s annual allowance is a total amount of not more than 25 tonnes of fishery products in a calendar year, and although the total amount may comprise of amounts of one or more species, in that total amount the amount of processed shellfish of any species listed in column (a) of the table below shall not exceed the maximum amount for that species mentioned in column (b) of that table—

Table

(a)	(b)
Species	Maximum amount
Cockles	25.0 tonnes
Oysters	5.0 tonnes
King Scallops	5.0 tonnes
Queen Scallops	10.0 tonnes
Mussels	20.0 tonnes
Other Bivalve Molluscs	10.0 tonnes
Marine Gastropods	20.0 tonnes.