S.I. No. 109/1976 - Undersized Sea-Fish Order, 1976.

S.I. No. 109 of 1976.

UNDERSIZED SEA-FISH ORDER, 1976.

I, MICHAEL PAT MURPHY, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 225 of the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959 (No. 14 of 1959), and the Fisheries (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1965 ( S.I. No. 83 of 1965 ) (as adapted by the Agriculture (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1965 ( S.I. No. 146 of 1965 )), and the Fisheries (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order, 1973 ( S.I. No. 93 of 1973 ), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Undersized Sea-fish Order, 1976.

2. This Order shall come into operation on the 7th day of June, 1976.

3. (1) Each kind of sea-fish mentioned in the second column of the Schedule hereto which, when measured in the manner directed by sub-article (2) of this Article, is less in length than that specified in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention, in the said second column, of such kind of sea-fish shall be, for the purpose of the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959 (No. 14 of 1959), undersized.

(2) The length of each kind of sea-fish shall, for the purposes of this Article, be measured between the tip of the snout and the extreme end of the tail fin, or, if any portion of the snout or of the tail fin has been removed, between the extreme ends of the remaining portion of the snout and of the remaining portion of the tail fin.

4. The Undersized Sea-fish Order, 1951 ( S.I. No. 44 of 1951 ), is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

GIVEN under my hand this 13th day of May, 1976.

MICHAEL PAT MURPHY,

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister

for Agriculture and Fisheries.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order supersedes the Undersized Sea-fish Order, 1951. It repeats the provisions of that Order but expresses the minimum lengths for the various kinds of sea-fish named therein, with the exception of whiting, in metric instead of imperial measure. It increases the minimum length for whiting to 25 centimetres and introduces a minimum length of 30 centimetres for saithe.