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  "title": "The Mackerel (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1995",
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  "long_title": "This Order prohibits fishing for mackerel (Scomber scombrus) during the period beginning with the date of coming into force of the Order and ending immediately before 1st April 1995—by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom within that part of ICES Statistical Division IIa lying within British fishery limits and within any part of the other sea areas specified in the Schedule to the Order, andby any British fishing boat registered in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or by any British-owned fishing boat within any part of sea areas ICES Statistical Division IIa and ICES Statistical Sub-Area IV which lie within British fishery limits (article 2).",
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