Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. No. 350 of 2005).

This Order provides for the administration and enforcement in Northern Ireland of the provisions of Annex IVa and IVc (“the Annexes”) to Council Regulation (EC) No. 27/2005. Further, the Order provides for the enforcement in Northern Ireland of monitoring, inspection and surveillance provisions as set out in Council Regulation (EC) No. 423/2004 in relation to cod and sole.
The Order contains provisions relating to the establishment and aggregation of management periods, the number of days which a vessel may be absent from port, the use of regulated fishing gear and the manner in which days may be transferred between fishing vessels within the same management period. Further, the Order sets out provisions for the transportation of cod and sole, a provision relating to the mixing of species within containers on board fishing vessels, procedures for the landing of cod in designated and non-designated ports, procedures for transhipment or landing sole in third countries and provisions concerning the maintenance of logbooks.