Sea Fish (Prohibited Methods of Fishing) (Firth of Clyde) Order 2019 (S.S.I. No. 419 of 2019).

This Order prohibits, subject to certain exceptions, all methods of fishing within specified areas of the Firth of Clyde from 14 February to 30 April, during both 2020 and 2021 (articles 1(3) and 3(1)). The Order is made in accordance with Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Common Fisheries Policy. The Order applies only to British fishing boats. The prohibition does not apply to British fishing boats that fish within the closed areas exclusively with scallop dredges, creels or (in relation to the area diagonally hatched on the illustrative map) trawls used for fishing Norway lobsters. It is an offence under section 5(1) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 to use a fishing boat in contravention of a prohibition imposed by this Order.