Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation (Variation) Order 1997 (No. 1630 of 1997).

The variation effected by this Order to the 1996 Order enables boats from the Faeroe Islands and Norway to fish for herring in ICES division IIa in certain areas of British fishery limits outside the area within 12 miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, for the purposes of section 2(1) of the Fishery Limits Act 1976. This fishing shall take place pursuant to agreements reached between the European Community and these countries on reciprocal fishing rights. Schedule 2, in the renewed version, specifies which fish species may be fished in specified ICES-areas by vessels of the Faeroe Islands and vessels from Norway.