{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-order-1989/schedule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-order-1989/schedule-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2015",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-order-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "AREAS OF SEA AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SEA FISH IN RESPECT OF WHICH PROHIBITION OF FISHING WITHOUT LICENCE APPLIES",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\n[Area of Sea]\n[Description of sea fish]\nNote: Where an entry in column 1 of this Schedule is marked with an asterisk the following waters are excluded from the area of sea referred to in that entry:–\nWaters lying within 12 miles of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands respectively is measured, but not extending beyond a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points of such baselines and the corresponding baselines adjacent to the United Kingdom and France respectively.\nCECAF Division 34.1.1 (EC Zone)\nCod (Gadus morhua), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), saithe (Pollachius virens)\nICES I\nAll\nICES IIa excluding third country waters\nCod, haddock, hake (Merluccius spp), herring (Clupea harengus), mackerel (Scomber scombrus), plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), saithe, sole (Solea solea), whiting (Merlangius merlangus)\nICES IIa excluding Community waters\nAll\nICES IIb\nAll\nICES IIIa\nMackerel, saithe\nICES IIIb, c excluding third country waters\nMackerel, saithe\nICES IIId excluding third country waters\nMackerel, saithe\nICES IV\nCod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, plaice, saithe, sole, whiting\nICES Va\nAll\nICES Vb excluding third country waters\nCod, Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides), haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis), anglerfish (Lophius spp), plaice, redfish (Sebastes spp), saithe, sole, whiting, Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus), pollack (Pollachius pollachius)\nICES Vb excluding Community waters\nAll\nICES VI\nCod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, megrim, anglerfish, plaice, saithe, sole, whiting, Norway lobster, pollack\nICES VIIa (see note below)\nCod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, megrim, anglerfish, plaice, saithe, sole, whiting, Norway lobster, pollack\nICES VIIb, c\nCod, haddock, hake, mackerel, megrim, anglerfish, plaice, saithe, sole, whiting, Norway lobster, pollack\nICES VIId\nCod, haddock, hake, mackerel, megrim, anglerfish, plaice, saithe, sole, sprat, (Sprattus sprattus), whiting, Norway lobster, pollack\nICES VIIe (see note below)\nCod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, megrim, anglerfish, plaice, saithe, sole, sprat, whiting, Norway lobster, pollack\nICES VIIf to k\nCod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, megrim, anglerfish, plaice, saithe, sole, whiting, Norway lobster, pollack\nICES VIII excluding third country waters\nCod, haddock, mackerel, megrim, anglerfish, saithe\nICES IX\nCod, haddock, saithe\nICES X\nCod, haddock, saithe\nICES XII\nAll\nICES XIV\nAll\nNAFO sub-area 1\nAll\nNAFO sub-area 2\nAll\nNAFO sub-area 3\nAll",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Note: Where an entry in column 1 of this Schedule is marked with an asterisk the following waters are excluded from the area of sea referred to in that entry:– Waters lying within 12 miles of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands respectively is measured, but not extending beyond a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points of such baselines and the corresponding baselines adjacent to the United Kingdom and France respectively."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1014",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) (No. 2) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2015/schedule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:35:23.942797+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."
}