The Shellfish (Specified Sea Area) (Prohibition of Fishing Methods) (Wales) Order 2003

Interpretation E+W

2.  In this Order—

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967;

“bivalve molluscs” (“molysgiaid dwygragennog”) means molluscs with a shell hinged in two parts that encases the soft parts of the animal;

“hydraulic dredging” (“carthu hydrolig”) means a method of fishing for bivalve molluscs buried in the sea bed whereby the dredge is trailed behind the boat at the end of a 10-20cm diameter pipe and water is pumped at high pressure to the mouth of the dredge and directed back up the pipe creating suction causing material, including the fish being dredged for, to be lifted to the surface of the water;

“the specified sea area” (“yr ardal fôr benodedig”) means that area of Carmarthen Bay north of a line directly southwards from the Gower Peninsula to a point whose co-ordinates are 04°10−W, 51°30−N then westwards to 04°27−W, 51°30−N, then northwards to 04°27−W, 51°36−N, then westwards to 04°42−W, 51°36−N, then directly northwards across Caldey Island to the coastline at Tenby.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 2 in force at 9.3.2003, see art. 1