# The Solway Firth Regulated Fishery (Scotland) Order 2006, Article 8: Power to create reserves


The Association may from time to time designate and mark out as reserves such parts of the fishery as it thinks necessary for–
(a) experimental, management or scientific purposes, including the control of pests or diseases of cockles;
(b) cleansing and subsequent restocking with cockles and the protection of stock introduced;
(c) the collection of spat of cockles; and
(d) the deposit or re-laying of cockles for the purposes of cleansing before their removal from the fishery,
and may use such reserves for their designated purposes and prohibit their use for any other purpose connected with or ancillary to dredging, fishing for or taking cockles.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/57/article/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/solway-firth-regulated-fishery-scotland-order-2006/article-8
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