Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order prohibits fishing for plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) during the period beginning with the date of coming into force of the Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1991—
by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man within any part of a sea area specified in the Schedule to the Order, or
by any British fishing boat registered in any of the Channel Islands or by any British-owned fishing boat within any part of such a sea area which lies inside British fishery limits (article 2).
By virtue of section 5(6) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (as amended by section 22(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981), where, in the course of any fishing operations conducted in any of the above-mentioned sea areas, plaice are taken on board a boat to which this Order applies, those fish shall (subject to section 9 of that Act) be returned to the sea forthwith.
British sea-fishery officers are given certain enforcement powers for the purpose of the enforcement of the Order (article 3).