
1 
This Order may be cited as the Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation (Variation) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 4th July 1997.
2 
The Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation Order 1996 shall be varied by substituting, for Schedule 2 to that Order, the Schedule to this Order.
Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
26th June 1997Sewel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
26th June 1997Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
26th June 1997Marjorie Mowlam
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
2nd July 1997
SCHEDULE
Article 2
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SCHEDULE 2
Article 3


Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Countries ICES area (as defined in article 2) Descriptions of fish
Faroe Islands IIa Herring.
 IVa, b, c Horse mackerel, Norway pout, sand eels, sprat, other white fish by-catches (note (a)).
 IVa Mackerel.
 Part of VIa Ling, tusk, blue ling, herring, mackerel, horse mackerel, Norway pout, sprat, blue whiting.
 VIb Ling, tusk, blue ling, blue whiting.
 VIIe, f, h Mackerel, horse mackerel.
 All sub-areas and divisions Porbeagle.
Norway IIa Mackerel, blue whiting, argentine, blue ling, ling, tusk, Greenland halibut, herring, other species (note (b)).
 IVa All species.
 IVb All species except for mackerel.
 IVc All species except for herring and mackerel.
 Vb Blue ling, ling, tusk, combined quota species (note (c)).
 Part of VIa Mackerel, blue whiting, argentine, herring, Norway pout.
 VI Ling, blue ling, tusk, dogfish (note (d)), basking shark, porbeagle, blue whiting, argentine, Greenland halibut, combined quota species (note (c)).
 VII Blue Ling, ling, tusk, dogfish (note (d)), basking shark, porbeagle, combined quota species (note (c)).
 VIId, e, f, h Mackerel.
Notes
(a) “Other white fish by-catches” means by-catchers of fish of descriptions other than those specified in column 3 in relation to the Faroe Islands.
(b) “Other species” means fish of descriptions other than those specified in column 3 in relation to Norway, subject to the qualification that catches of sole shall be limited to by-catches.
(c) “Combined quota species” means grenadier or rat-tails, mora mora, greater forkbeard.
(d) “Dogfish” includes grey shark, black shark, bird-beak dogfish, leafscale gulper shark, greater lantern shark, smooth lantern shark and Portuguese dogfish.”