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Dear sir, Madam,
I am continually dismayed to see the size of fish on display in your
Waterford supermarket. Please take a look at the applicable piece of
legislation below. I personally have seen plaice and lemon sole for
sale in your shop (repeatedly) well below these figures.
S.I. No. 109/1976: UNDERSIZED SEA-FISH ORDER, 1976.
I, MICHAEL PAT MURPHY, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for
Agriculture and Fisheries, in exercise of the powers conferred on me
by section 225 of the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959 (No. 14 of
1959), and the Fisheries (Transfer of Departmental Administration and
Ministerial Functions) Order, 1965 (S.I. No. 83 of 1965) (as adapted
by the Agriculture (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of
Minister) Order, 1965 (S.I. No. 146 of 1965)), and the Fisheries
(Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order, 1973 (S.I. No. 93 of
1973), hereby order as follows:
1. This Order may be cited as the Undersized Sea-fish Order, 1976.
2. This Order shall come into operation on the 7th day of June, 1976.
3. (1) Each kind of sea-fish mentioned in the second column of the
Schedule hereto which, when measured in the manner directed by
sub-article (2) of this Article, is less in length than that specified
in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention, in the
said second column, of such kind of sea-fish shall be, for the purpose
of the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959 (No. 14 of 1959),
undersized.
(2) The length of each kind of sea-fish shall, for the purposes of
this Article, be measured between the tip of the snout and the extreme
end of the tail fin, or, if any portion of the snout or of the tail
fin has been removed, between the extreme ends of the remaining
portion of the snout and of the remaining portion of the tail fin.
4. The Undersized Sea-fish Order, 1951 (S.I. No. 44 of 1951), is
hereby revoked.
SCHEDULE.
Ref. No.
(1) Kinds of Sea-fish.
(2) Minimum Length (3)
1 Cod (Gadus morhua) ... ...Centimetres 30
2 Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) ... 28
3 Hake (Merluccius merluccius) ... ... 30
4 Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) ... ... 25
5 Witches (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus) ... 29
6 Lemon Soles (Microstomus kitt) ... ... 25
7 Soles (Solea solea) ... ... ... 24
8 Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) ... ... 30
9 Brill (Scophthalmus rhombus) ... ... 30
10 Megrims (Lepidorhombus whiff) ... ... 25
11 Whiting (Merlangius merlangus) ... ... 25
12 Dabs (Limanda limanda) ... ... 23
13 Saithe (Pollachius virens) ... ... 30
Regards,