Article 5 Variation of the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1983

For article 4 thereof (retention on board of fish) there shall be substituted the following article —

“Retention on board of fish

4

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4(9A)(b) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (return to the sea of fish the fishing for which is prohibited), there may be retained on board any fishing boat to which this Order applies a quantity of sea fish consisting of one or more of the descriptions of sea fish specified in an entry in column 2 of Schedule 4 to this Order, the fishing for which is for the time being prohibited by or under this Order, and which —

(a)

has been taken on board that fishing boat in a statistical division of ICES VII specified in column 1 of that Schedule opposite that entry, in the course of fishing in that statistical division of ICES VII for any description of sea fish the fishing for which is not for the time being prohibited by or under this Order or any other enactment; and

(b)

does not exceed 10 per cent by weight of the total catch of sea fish on board that fishing boat.”.