Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota and Third Country Fishing Measures and Restriction on Days at Sea) (Scotland) Order 2008 (S.S.I. No. 151 of 2008).

This Order makes provision for the enforcement in Scotland of Council Regulation (EC) No. 40/2008. The Order makes provision for the enforcement of certain enforceable Community restrictions and other obligations relating to sea fishing by Community vessels and third country vessels set out in the Council Regulation. The Council Regulation fixes total allowable catches and the quotas of Member States for 2008 and lays down certain conditions under which they may be fished. It also authorizes fishing by vessels of Norway and the Faroe Islands for specified descriptions of fish in certain specified areas within the fishery limits of Member States in 2008 and imposes requirements concerning fishing quotas and authorized zones, methods of fishing, the holding of licences and observance of licence conditions, the keeping of logbooks, the making of reports and similar matters.