SEA FISHERIES 1 This Order may be cited as the Sea Fish (Conservation) (Channel Islands) Order 1981 and shall come into operation on 1st June 1981. 2 In this Order the expression “ the Channel Islands ” means “ Jersey ” and “Guernsey” and the words “ Jersey ” and “ Guernsey ” mean the Bailiwick of Jersey and Guernsey respectively. 3 The following provisions of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 shall extend to the Channel Islands subject to the exceptions, adaptations and modifications specified in the Schedule to this Order:— a section 1 (as amended by section 16 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 and section 9 of and Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976) (size limits etc. for fish); b section 3 (as amended by section 9 of and Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976) (regulation of nets and other fishing gear); c section 4 (as substituted by section 3 of the Fishery Limits Act 1976) (licensing of fishing boats); d section 5 (as amended by section 9 of and Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976) (power to restrict fishing for sea fish); e certain ancillary provisions, namely:— i section 9 (exemptions for operations for scientific and other purposes); ii section 11 (as amended by sections 5 and 9 of and Schedules 1 and 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976) (penalties for offences); iii section 14 (jurisdiction of court to try offences); iv section 15 (as amended by section 22 of and Schedule 1 to the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 and section 9 of and Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976) (powers of British sea-fishery officers for enforcement of Act). 4 1 In the aforesaid Act as extended to the Channel Islands, the following expressions have the meanings hereafter assigned to them except as specifically provided or where the context otherwise requires:— “ British fishing boat ” and “ foreign fishing boat ” have the meanings assigned respectively to them by section 19 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968; “ British-owned ”, in relation to a fishing boat means owned by a person who is (within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894) a person qualified to own a British ship or owned by two or more persons any one of whom is (within the meaning of that Act) a person so qualified; “ British sea-fishery officer ” means any person who by virtue of section 7 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 is a British sea-fishery officer; “ fishing boat ” means a vessel of whatever size, and in whatever way propelled which is for the time being employed in sea fishing; “ master ” includes, in relation to any vessel, the person for the time being in command or charge of the vessel; “ migratory trout ” means trout which migrate to or from the sea; “ the Ministers ” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; “ salmon ” includes any fish of the salmon species; “ sea fish ” means fish, whether fresh or cured, of any kind found in the sea, including shellfish, and any parts of any such fish but does not include salmon or migratory trout; “ shellfish ” includes crustaceans and molluscs of any kind and any spat or spawn of shellfish; “ vessel ” includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation. 2 References to the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 are to that Act as extended to Guernsey or Jersey, as the case may be. N. E. Leigh Clerk of the Privy Council