# Fishery Limits Act 1976, Paragraph 20


In section 5(1) of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 (prohibition on use of explosives, etc. to take or destroy fish) for the words “and within the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands" substitute the words “to a distance of six nautical miles measured from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured".

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/86/schedule/2/paragraph/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fishery-limits-act-1976/schedule-2/paragraph-20
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