Shrimp Fishing Nets (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

Statutory rules of Northern Ireland 499 2007

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Northern Ireland

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TSO (The Stationery Office)

Enabling power: Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967, ss. 3 (1), 15 (3). Issued: 14.12.2007. Made: 06.12.2007. Coming into operation: 31.01.2008. Effect: SR 2005/349 (NI) amended. EC note: This Order amends the Shrimp Fishing Nets Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 which regulates the carriage and use of any fishing nets with mesh size between 16 and 31 millimetres, measured in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2108/1984 of 23rd July 1984. Article 3 paragraph (d) is amended to comply with Article 25 paragraph 3 of EC Regulation 850/98 which restricts the quantities of common shrimp and aesop shrimp retained on board a fishing vessel to no more than 5% of the live weight of marine organisms on board.