The Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls (No. 2) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2003
Made
10th March 2003
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
10th March 2003
Coming into force
11th March 2003
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1) and 22(2) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Citation and commencement 1.
This Order may be cited as the Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls (No. 2) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 11th March 2003.
Amendment of the Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls (No. 2) (Scotland) Order 2000 2.
- (1) The Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls (No. 2) (Scotland) Order 2000[2] is amended in accordance with this article.
(2) In article 3(2)(d) (prohibition of method of fishing), for "100 millimetres" there is substituted "95 millimetres".
This Order amends the Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls (No. 2) (Scotland) Order 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/405) ("the principal Order"). The Order forms part of the law of Scotland only.
The principal Order provides for stricter measures for the management and conservation of stocks pursuant to Article 46 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 850/98 of 30th March 1998 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms (O.J. No. L 125, 27.4.98, p.1).
The Order, which is also made pursuant to Article 46 of that Regulation, amends article 3(2)(d) of the principal Order in relation to the mesh size of trawl excepted from article 3(1) of the principal Order by reducing the mesh size from 100 millimetres to 95 millimetres (article 2).