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Shrimp Fishing Nets (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

Made

6th December 2007

Coming into operation

31st January 2008

The Department of Agriculture And Rural Development makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(1) and 15(3) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1) and now vested in it(2).

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Shrimp Fishing Nets (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 31st January 2008.

Amendment of the Shrimp Fishing Nets Order (Northern Ireland) 2005

2. The Shrimp Fishing Nets Order (Northern Ireland) 2005(3) shall be amended as follows–

(1) In Article 3 (Prohibition on fishing for shrimps without a separator trawl or sorting grid)-

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 6th December 2007

Legal seal

Liam McKibben

A senior officer of the

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Shrimp Fishing Nets Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 which regulates the carriage and use of any fishing nets with mesh size between 16 and 31 millimetres, measured in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2108/1984 of 23rd July 1984.

Article 3 paragraph (d) is amended to comply with Article 25 paragraph 3 of EC Regulation 850/98 which restricts the quantities of common shrimp and aesop shrimp retained on board a fishing vessel to no more than 5% of the live weight of marine organisms on board.

(1)

1967 c.84. 1967 c 84. Section 3 was amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86) section 9(1) and Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1), the Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 26) section 10(1) and Schedule 1 and the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820)), Article 4 and Schedule 2, paragraph 43(1), (2) and (4). Section 15(3) was substituted by the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77) section 22(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 38(3) and amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86) section 9(1) and Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1) and S.I. 1999/1820, Schedule 2, paragraph 43(2)(b) Back [1]

(2)

SI 2002/790 Article 3(1) and Schedule, paragraph 3(1)(b) and (m) and (2) Back [2]

(3)

SR 2005/349 (NI) Back [3]



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