Sea Fish Licensing (England) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 647 of 2015).

The Order provides for the execution and enforcement of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy. Subject to specified exceptions, the Order prohibits fishing by English fishing boats, wherever they may be, unless authorised by a licence granted by the Marine Management Organisation. It is an offence under section 4(3) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 for the master, owner or charterer to use a fishing boat in contravention of the prohibition. The prohibition in does not apply to: (a) fishing for salmon or migratory trout; (b) fishing by any boat used wholly for the purpose of conveying persons wishing to fish solely for pleasure; (c) fishing in waters lying within 12 miles of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands respectively is measured, but not extending beyond a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points of such baselines and the corresponding baselines adjacent to the United Kingdom and France respectively; (d) fishing for common eels (Anguilla anguilla) by any boat the length of which is not more than 10 metres; or (e) fishing by any boat the length of which is not more than 10 metres and which does not have an engine to power the boat.