
1 
This Order may be cited as the Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 8th September 1987.
2 
The Sea Fish Licensing Order 1983 is hereby varied in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.
3 
In article 3(1) thereof (prohibition of fishing without a licence and exceptions thereto), for the words “Isle of Man Board of Agriculture and Fisheries” there shall be substituted the words “Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the Isle of Man”.
4 
In article 3(2)(b) thereof after paragraph (v) the word “or” shall be omitted and after paragraph (vi) there shall be inserted the following —“; or
(vii) in the Firth of Clyde, that is to say the area of sea which lies landward of a line drawn from a point on the mainland of Scotland at 55°17'.9 north latitude and 5°47'.8 west longitude (Mull of Kintyre) to a point on the mainland of Scotland at 55°00'.5 north latitude and 5°09'.4 west longitude (Corsewall Point)”.
5 
For article 4 thereof (retention on board of fish) there shall be substituted the following article —“
4 
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4(9A)(b) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (return to the sea of fish the fishing for which is prohibited), there may be retained on board any fishing boat to which this Order applies a quantity of sea fish consisting of one or more of the descriptions of sea fish specified in an entry in column 2 of Schedule 4 to this Order, the fishing for which is for the time being prohibited by or under this Order, and which —
(a) has been taken on board that fishing boat in a statistical division of ICES VII specified in column 1 of that Schedule opposite that entry, in the course of fishing in that statistical division of ICES VII for any description of sea fish the fishing for which is not for the time being prohibited by or under this Order or any other enactment; and
(b) does not exceed 10 per cent by weight of the total catch of sea fish on board that fishing boat.”.
6 
After Schedule 3 thereof (orders revoked) there shall be inserted the Schedule to this Order.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on  4th September 1987.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Ian Lang
Minister of State, Scottish Office
1st September 1987Ian Grist
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
28th August 1987Brian S. Mawhinney
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office
29th August 1987
SCHEDULE
Article 6
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SCHEDULE 4
Article 4


(1) Area of sea (2) Description of sea fish
ICES VIIa Cod, plaice, whiting
ICES VIIb, c Whiting
ICES VIId Plaice, sole, whiting
ICES VIIe Plaice, sole, whiting
ICES VIIf to k Plaice, sole, whiting
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