S.I. No. 341/1980:

UNDERSIZED SEA-FISH ORDER, 1980.

UNDERSIZED SEA-FISH ORDER, 1980.

I, PATRICK POWER, Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 225 and 230 of the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959 (No. 14 of 1959), and the Fisheries (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1977 ( S.I. No. 30 of 1977 ), as adapted by the Fisheries (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1978 ( S.I. No. 195 of 1978 ), hereby order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Undersized Sea-Fish Order, 1980.

(2) The Principal Order and this Order may be cited together as the Undersized Sea-Fish Orders, 1978 and 1980.

2. In this Order "the Principal Order" means the Undersized Sea-Fish Order, 1978 ( S.I. No. 175 of 1978 ).

3. The Undersized Sea-Fish Order, 1978, is hereby amended by the substitution of the following for the Schedule thereto:

SCHEDULE

In this Schedule 'the specified area' means that part of the sea which is enclosed by an imaginary line drawn from the point on the high water mark on the Waterford coast at 52° 00' north latitude true east along that latitude to the point where it meets the high water mark on the Welsh coast and thence along the high water mark of the Welsh, English and Scottish coasts, via the Menai Strait to the point on the high water mark at 55° 00' north latitude, thence true west along the last-mentioned latitude to the point where it meets the high water mark on the Antrim coast, thence along the Irish coast, initially in a south-easterly direction, to the point first-mentioned.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 12th Day of November, 1980.

PATRICK POWER.

Minister for Fisheries and Forestry.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order amends the Undersized Sea-fish Order, 1978 to provide for a minimum length of 27 centimetres for whiting (all areas) and 45 centimetres for cod taken in the Irish Sea (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Statistical Area VIIa).