Crawfish (Conservation of Stocks) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 289 of 2019).

These Regulations impose a conservation measure whereby all crawfish containing a V notch (defined) or are mutilated are returned to the sea by an Irish fishing boat. The master or person in charge of an Irish sea-fishing boat shall cause a crawfish to which these Regulations apply, taken by the Irish sea-fishing boat, to be carefully handled and returned alive to the sea without delay. A person shall not buy, handle, tranship, transport, land, process, store or sell a crawfish taken by an Irish sea-fishing boat to which these Regulations apply.