{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-fishing-with-multiple-trawls-order-2003/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-fishing-with-multiple-trawls-order-2003/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1559",
  "legislation_title": "The Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-fishing-with-multiple-trawls-order-2003",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prohibition of method of fishing",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), fishing for sea fish—\n(a) by any relevant British fishing boat wherever it may be; or\n(b) by any other fishing boat within relevant British fishery limits,\nwith any net other than a single trawl is prohibited.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply—\n(a) to any beam trawler;\n(b) to fishing with a net having a mesh size of not less than 80 millimetres—\n(i) in the Fladen area;\n(ii) in ICES VI (Rockall and West of Scotland) south of a line drawn westwards from the east coast of the Sound of Jura at 56° north latitude;\n(iii) in ICES VII (Irish Sea, West of Ireland and Porcupine Bank, South Coast of Ireland, Bristol Channel and English Channel); or\n(iv) in ICES IV (North Sea) south of a line drawn eastwards from the east coast of England at 53° north latitude; or\n(c) to fishing with any net having a mesh size of 95 millimetres or more.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 10(2) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 7.7.2003, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1559/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:22:19.834610+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}