The Devon and Severn Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Order 2010

The Devon and Severn Inshore Fisheries and Conservation District

3.—(1) There is to be an inshore fisheries and conservation district known as the Devon and Severn Inshore Fisheries and Conservation District (“the district”).

(2) The district is the area that consists of—

(a) the combined areas of the relevant councils (including Lundy Island) (the “basic area” of the district);

(b) the adjacent area of sea to the north (see paragraph (4));

(c) the adjacent area of sea to the south (see paragraph (6)); and

(d) the area of sea adjacent to Lundy Island (see paragraph (8)).

(3) The “relevant councils” are—

• Plymouth City Council;

• North Somerset District Council;

• Somerset County Council;

• Bristol City Council;

• Devon County Council;

• Torbay Council;

• South Gloucestershire Council;

• Gloucestershire County Council.

(4) The “adjacent area of sea to the north” is so much of the sea adjacent to the basic area of the district as lies—

(a) within the boundaries specified in paragraph (5); and

(b) to a distance of 6 nautical miles from the 1983 baselines.

(5) Those boundaries are—

(a) a loxodromic line joining the co-ordinates numbered 1 and 2 in Part 1 of the Table in the Schedule; and

(b) a loxodromic line joining the co-ordinates numbered 1 to 15 in Part 2 of that Table.

(6) The “adjacent area of sea to the south” is so much of the sea adjacent to the basic area of the district as lies—

(a) within the boundaries specified in paragraph (7); and

(b) to a distance of 6 nautical miles from the 1983 baselines.

(7) Those boundaries are—

(a) a loxodromic line joining the co-ordinates numbered 1 and 2 in Part 3 of the Table in the Schedule; and

(b) a loxodromic line joining the co-ordinates numbered 1 to 10 in Part 4 of that Table.

(8) The “area of sea adjacent to Lundy Island” is so much of the sea adjacent to Lundy island as lies to a distance of 6 nautical miles from the 1983 baselines, disregarding any sea comprised in the adjacent area of sea to the north.

(9) In this article—

(a) “the 1983 baselines” means the baselines for the measurement of the breadth of the territorial sea of the United Kingdom as they existed at 25th January 1983 in accordance with the Territorial Waters Order in Council 1964(1);

(b) “co-ordinate” means a co-ordinate of latitude and longitude on the World Geodetic System 1984; and

(c) “nautical mile” means an international nautical mile of 1,852 metres.

(1)

1965 III p.6452A, amended by the Territorial Waters (Amendment) Order in Council 1979, 1979 III p.2866. These baselines are used in the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/253) to designate, for the purposes of section 2(1) of the Fishery Limits Act 1976, the areas in which fishing boats registered in Member States other than the United Kingdom may fish.