{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-variation-order-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-variation-order-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1565",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-variation-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order varies the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1983, as varied, (“the 1983 Order”), which requires a licence to be obtained for fishing by British fishing boats in specified areas of sea for the principal species of sea fish. Boats not more than ten metres long, other than when fishing for herring in specified areas, are excepted from that requirement; this Order removes from that exception such boats fishing for herring in the Firth of Clyde (article 4).\nThe Order replaces article 4 of the 1983 Order (retention on board of fish) and adds a new Schedule 4 thereto to provide for the retention on board a fishing boat of a quantity of one or more of the descriptions of sea fish specified in that Schedule not exceeding ten per cent by weight of the total catch of sea fish on board the fishing boat, the fishing for which is for the time being prohibited, caught in a specified statistical division of ICES VII as a by-catch in the course of lawful fishing for another description of sea fish. In consequence fish of descriptions not so specified, the fishing for which is for the time being prohibited under article 3 of the 1983 Order, must in all circumstances be returned to the sea forthwith in accordance with the provisions of section 4(9A) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (inserted by section 20(4) of the Fisheries Act 1981) (articles 5 and 6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1565/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:20:42.526816+00:00"
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  "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."
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