Byelaws

NORTH WESTERN AND NORTH WALES SEA FISHERIES DISTRICT

THE SEA FISHERIES REGULATION ACT, 1966

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Limits of the District

Byelaw 1 - confirmed 06/08/86

Byelaw 2: Attachment to nets - confirmed 29/09/51

Byelaw 3: Prohibition of seine netting - confirmed 08/03/89

Byelaw 4: Mesh size – trawl nets - confirmed 20/01/03

Byelaw 5: Permit to Fish for Cockle and Mussels - confirmed 09/02/07

Byelaw 6: Shrimp and Prawns – restriction of fishing - confirmed 26/03/01

Byelaw 7: Mesh sizes – nets other than trawls - confirmed 06/09/89

Byelaw 8: Small mesh nets – other than trawl nets - restrictions - confirmed 06/09/89

Byelaw 9: Mechanically propelled vessels – maximum length - confirmed 30/09/05

Byelaw 10: Set and drift nets - confirmed 09/07/85

Byelaw 11: Marking of fishing gear and keep pots - confirmed 22/08/03

Byelaw 12: Restriction on fishing for bivalve molluscan shellfish - confirmed 21/01/98

Byelaw 13: Cockles – minimum size - confirmed 21/01/98

Byelaw 13A: Cockles and mussels – management of the fishery - confirmed 29/03/96

Byelaw 14: Cockle fishery - seasonal closure - confirmed 05/06/06

Byelaw 15: Mussels – minimum size - confirmed 21/07/97

Byelaw 16: Shellfishery – temporary closure - confirmed 14/09/73

Byelaw 17: Re-deposition of shellfish - confirmed 08/03/89

Byelaw 18: Foul hooking of sea fish - confirmed 09/07/85

Byelaw 19: Specified fish sizes - confirmed 22/08/03

Byelaw 20: Restriction of fishing for escallop in Cardigan Bay - confirmed 20/05/08

Byelaw 21: Prohibition of bottom towed gear - confirmed 20/05/08

Byelaw 24: Fixed engines – prohibitions (Wales) - confirmed 22/06/06

Byelaw 25: Drift nets – prohibitions (Wales) - confirmed 31/05/06

Byelaw 26: Fixed engines – prohibitions and authorisations (England) - confirmed 12/11/96

Byelaw 27: Mobile nets - prohibitions and authorisations (England) - confirmed 12/11/96

Byelaw 28: Application of byelaws - confirmed 22/12/92

Byelaw 29: Minimum size of lobsters - confirmed 08/07/94

Byelaw 30: Fishing for lobster, crawfish, crab, prawn and whelk - confirmed 20/04/07

Byelaw 31: Protection of V-notched lobsters - confirmed 16/12/97

 

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