Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) (No. 2) Order 2003 (S.I. No. 1535 of 2003).

This Order provides for the enforcement in England and Wales of the provisions of Annex XVII to Council Regulation 2341/2002 fixing for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks the fishing opportunities in Community waters for 2003. It applies certain amendments to the Annex such as a change in the definition of a day absent from port (par. 3), increased number of days for vessels carrying certain fishing gear (par. 6(e)), more flexibility in the number of fishing gears that a vessel may simultaneously carry (par. 7(b)), provision that certain days should not be counted as days absent from port (par. 5(b), 5(c), and 13), and changes to the rules on the transfer of days from one vessel to another (par. 10(b) and 10(c)).