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Shellfish beds byelaw
Where, in the opinion of the Committee, in any fishery, any bed or part of a bed of shellfish
within the District is so severely depleted as to require temporary closure in order to ensure recovery, or any bed or part
of a bed contains mainly immature shellfish which in the interest of the protection and development of the fishery ought not
to be disturbed for the time being, or any bed of transplanted shellfish ought not to be fished until it has become established,
and where the bed, or part of thereof, has been clearly defined in notices displayed in the vicinity prohibiting the removal
or disturbance of the shellfish, no person shall, without the written authority of the Committee, while the bed or part thereof
is so defined, take away or otherwise disturb any shellfish therein.
Application for authority from the Committee to take away or otherwise disturb
any shellfish in a bed which is temporarily closed, in pursuance of the byelaw specified above, should be made in writing
to the undersigned.
Re-deposit of shellfish
Any person who takes any shellfish, the removal of which is prohibited by any byelaw in force in the District, or the
possession of which is prohibited by any regulation of the European Communities, Act of Parliament or Statutory Instrument,
shall forthwith re-deposit the same, without injury, as near as possible to the place from which it was taken.
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Parlour pots – Crabs and lobsters
No person shall use or cause to be used for the purposes of fishing for sea fish any parlour pot of whatever material
constructed, unless it has at least one unobstructed escape gap per parlour. Any
escape gap must:
(a) be located in the exterior wall of the parlour(s)
(b) be so designed and constructed and of sufficient size that there may be easily
passed through it a rigid box shaped gauge which measure 84 millimetres wide by 46 millimetres high and 100 millimetres long,
and
(c) be fitted in such a way that the longitudinal axis is parallel to the base
of the pot and is located in the lowest part of the parlour(s) as is practically possible and in all cases must be within
100 millimetres of the base.
No persons shall use or cause to be used for the purposes of fishing for sea fish any parlour pot unless the door,
hinge or clasp fitted to the door of each bait parlour is fitted to the port by rubber, metal or similar natural material
that will, under working conditions, require replacement annually.
Marking pots and traps
Marker buoys and similar objects floating on the surface and intended to indicate the location
of fishing pots and traps shall be clearly marked at all times with the letters and numbers of the vessel to which they belong
or the owners name and address.
It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under this byelaw
founded on a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any provision of article 1 or 2 of Commission Regulation No. 1381/87
to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.
Berried lobsters
No person shall remove from a fishery any berried lobster.
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Seed mussel
surveys tender information
Kent & Essex SFC have received funding from Defras Fisheries Challenge Fund
to study the mussel populations within our district. The project breaks down into 3 main components ·
To
assess when mussels spawn and how fast they grow within the district. ·
To
complete a base line survey of the known mussel beds. ·
To
implement best management practice used by other seed mussel stock managers.
As
part of this project we are aiming to use the mussel bed in the Medway approaches as one of our sampling populations.
We would like to involve local fishermen in the survey work to sample the Medway bed throughout the year, and invite people
to tender for the contract to complete this work.
Best safety standards will
be required (able to conform to Cefas safety requirements) and the skipper will help plan the detailed programme. The survey
work will involve the use of a mussel dredge (of a commercial size) provided by the tenderer and the vessel used must possess
a GPS navigator/plotter and a recording echo-sounder.
For more information please contact
Kent & Essex Sea Fisheries Committee
The Ice House Military Road Ramsgate Kent CT11 9LG
Tel: 01843 585310 |
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