# The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) Order 2024, Article 8: Power to create reserves

Extent: E+W

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

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1211/article/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/thames-estuary-cockle-fishery-no-2-order-2024/article-8
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