The South-west Territorial Waters (Prohibition of Pair Trawling) (Amendment) Order 2005

Made13th January 2005

Laid before Parliament14th January 2005

Coming into force15th January 2005

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Secretary of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3, 5(1) and 5A of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 19671, and now vested in them2, make the following Order:

Title and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the South-west Territorial Waters (Prohibition of Pair Trawling) (Amendment) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 15th January 2005.

Amendment of the South-west Territorial Waters (Prohibition of Pair Trawling) Order 20042.

(1)

The South-west Territorial Waters (Prohibition of Pair Trawling) Order 20043 shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2)

For Article 3(2)(b)(ii) there shall be substituted—

“(ii)
incorporating no individual mesh, irrespective of its position within the net, greater than 300mm.”.

Ben Bradshaw

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

12th January 2005

Ian Pearson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Northern Ireland Office

13th January 2005

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the South-west Territorial Waters (Prohibition of Pair Trawling) Order 2004 so that those vessels which use nets where no individual mesh is greater than 300mm are not prevented from pair trawling. The effect is that those vessels which do use nets, any part of which incorporate mesh of greater than 300mm, are prohibited from pair trawling.

This Order comes into force on 15th January 2005.