http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/348/article/7The Shetland Islands Regulated Fishery (Scotland) Order 2012Fish (food)AccountancyenSEA FISHERIESStatute Law Database2026-07-10Expert Participation2017-04-01 This Order confers on the Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation (“the Organisation”) the right of regulating a fishery for oysters, mussels, cockles, clams, lobsters, scallops, queens, crabs, whelks and razorshells (“the prescribed species”, defined in article2) on the bed of the sea adjacent to the Shetland Islands for a period of 15years until 31stJanuary 2028 (article 3). 7 The Organisation may from time to time designate and mark out as reserves such parts of the fishery as it thinks necessary for— a experimental, management or scientific purposes, including the control of pests or diseases of any of the prescribed species; b cleansing and subsequent restocking with any of the prescribed species and the protection of stock introduced; c the collection of spat of any of the prescribed species; and d the deposit or re‑laying of any of the prescribed species for the purposes of cleansing before their removal from the fishery, and may use such reserves for their designated purposes and prohibit their use for any other purpose connected with or ancillary to dredging, fishing for or taking any of the prescribed species. Art. 7 in force at 1.2.2013, see art. 1(1)