Statutory Instruments
SEA FISHERIES
FISHERY LIMITS
Made
8th June 1965
Coming into Operation
18th June 1965
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State for Scotland and the Home Department (being the Secretaries of State concerned with sea-fishing in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively) in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 1 of the Fishery Limits Act 1964 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf hereby make the following Order:-
1. This Order may be cited as the Fishing Boats (France) Designation Order 1965 and shall come into operation on 18th June 1965.
2.-(1) For the purposes of this Order:-
"the Act" means
"demersal fish" means
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if this Order and the Order hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
3. The Fishing Boats (France) Designation Order 1964(1) is hereby revoked.
4.-(1) France is hereby designated for the purpose of section 1(3) of the Act.
(2) The areas in which fishing boats registered in France may fish in the outer belt of the fishery limits of the British Islands shall be:-
(a)the whole of the outer belt surrounding the islands referred to in the 2nd column of Schedule 1 to this Order;
(b)the areas which respectively lie between the demarcation lines drawn from the landmarks, and in the true directions mentioned in the 2nd column of Schedule 2 to this Order in respect of each such area as aforesaid.
(3) The descriptions of sea fish for which such fishing boats may fish shall be those specified in the 3rd column of the said Schedules to this Order in respect of each such area as aforesaid.
5. Section 2 of the Act shall apply to fishing boats registered in France.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 3rd June 1965.
L.S.
Frederick Peart
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Given under the Seal of the Secretary of State for Scotland on 4th June 1965.
L.S.
William Ross
Secretary of State for Scotland
Given under the Hand of the Secretary of State for the Home Department on 8th June 1965.
Frank Soskice
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Column 3 | ||
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Column 1 | Column 2 | Descriptions of |
Area | Islands | sea fish |
1. | Sulisker and North Rona | Lobsters; crawfish |
2. | St. Kilda group | Lobsters; crawfish |
Column 2 | Column 3 | |
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Column 1 | Demarcation lines, Landmarks and | Descriptions of |
Area | directions | sea fish |
ENGLAND AND WALES | ||
3. | 1. Morecambe Bay Light Vessel-East | Demersal fish |
2. Point Lynas Lighthouse-North | ||
4. | 1. Bardsey Island Lighthouse-South-west | Lobsters; crawfish |
2. South Bishop Lighthouse-North-west | ||
5. | 1. South Bishop Lighthouse-North-west | Lobsters; crawfish; |
2. Skokham Island Lighthouse-South | demersal fish | |
6. | 1. Skokham Island Lighthouse-South | Demersal fish |
2. Hartland Point Lighthouse-North-west | ||
7. | 1. Hartland Point Lighthouse-North-west | Lobsters; crawfish; |
2. Longships Lighthouse-South-west | demersal fish | |
8. | 1. Longships Lighthouse-South-west | Lobsters; crawfish; |
2. Eddystone Lighthouse-South | escallops; demersal fish | |
9. | 1. Eddystone Lighthouse-South | Demersal fish |
2. Selsey Bill-South | ||
10. | 1. Selsey Bill-South | Lobsters; crawfish; |
2. Beachy Head Lighthouse-South | demersal fish | |
11. | 1. Beachy Head Lighthouse-South | Demersal fish |
2. Dungeness New Lighthouse-South | ||
12. | 1. Dungeness New Lighthouse-South | Herring; demersal fish |
2. North Foreland Lighthouse-East | ||
13. | 1. North Foreland Lighthouse-East | Demersal fish |
2. Lowestoft Lighthouse-East | ||
SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND | ||
14. | 1. Cape Wrath Lighthouse-North-east | Lobsters; crawfish; |
2. Butt of Lewis Lighthouse-West | demersal fish | |
15. | 1. Butt of Lewis Lighthouse-West | Lobsters; crawfish |
2. Barra Head Lighthouse-West | ||
16. | 1. Barra Head Lighthouse-West | Lobsters; crawfish; |
2. Port Stewart Lighthouse-North | demersal fish | |
17. | 1. Sanda Island Lighthouse-South-west | Demersal fish |
2. Haulbowline Rocks Lighthouse-South-east | ||
3. Mull of Galloway Lighthouse-South | ||
ISLE OF MAN | ||
18. | 1. Jurby Head Church-West | Demersal fish |
2. Chicken Rock Lighthouse-South-east | ||
CHANNEL ISLANDS | ||
19. | 1. L'etac de Sark-South-west | Crabs; demersal fish |
2. Alderney Lighthouse-North-east |
This Order revokes and re-enacts with modifications the provisions of the Fishing Boats (France) Designation Order 1964. France is designated as a country whose registered fishing boats are accorded fishing rights within areas of the outer belt of the fishery limits of the British Islands. The areas and the descriptions of fish which may be fished for are specified.
The Order also provides that French fishing boats may fish for a transitional period within part of the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands.
(1964 III, p. 3576).