# The Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024, Paragraph 3: Byelaws of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee

Extent: E+W

(1) The Byelaws of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee are amended as follows.
(2) In Byelaw 12 (Restrictions on Fishing for Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish)—
(a) omit paragraph 1 b) and the “or” following it;
(b) after paragraph 3, insert “References in this Byelaw to bivalve molluscan shellfish do not include cockles.”
(3) In Byelaw 13 (Cockles – Minimum Size), at the end insert “This Byelaw does not apply in the Specified Area defined in article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024.”
(4) In Byelaw 13A (Cockles and Mussels – Management of the Fishery)—
(a) omit “cockles and” and “cockles or” in each place these occur, including in the heading;
(b) in paragraph 1, omit “cockle (Cerastoderma edule) or”;
(c) in paragraphs 2 and 3, in both places it occurs, omit “cockle or”.
(5) Byelaw 14 (Cockle Fishery – Seasonal Closure) is revoked.
(6) In Byelaw 16 (Shell Fishery – Temporary Closure), at the end insert “This Byelaw does not apply in relation to cockles”.
(7) In Byelaw 17 (Re-Deposit of Shellfish), omit “, and in re-depositing cockles, in accordance with this byelaw, shall spread them thinly and evenly over the beds”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/767/schedule/3/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/cockle-fishing-management-and-permitting-specified-area-wales-order-2024/schedule-3/paragraph-3
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