Article 5 Carriage of undersized scallops

For the purposes of section 1(3) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967, scallops measuring less than 110 millimetres may not be carried by a F1fishing boat that has fished in both ICES division VIId and ICES division VIIe during a single fishing trip.

In this article, “single fishing trip” means the time from when a fishing boat departs from a port to the time when it returns to a port.

For the purposes of this article, the size of a scallop is measurable in accordance with paragraph 6 of F2Annex 4 to Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures.