Fisheries (Control of Demersal (Bottom) Trawling Activities) Regulations, 1994 (L.N. No. 217 of 1994)

Legal Supplement Part B-Vol. 33, No. 257--8th December, 1994 LEGAL NOTICE No. 217 REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO THE FISHERIES Aer, CHAP. 67:51 REGULATIONS MADE BY THE MINIsTER UNDER SECTION 4 OF THE FisHERIEs Acr THE FISHERIES [CONTROL OF DEMERSAL <BOTTOM) TRAWLING ACTMTIES) REGULATIONS, 1994 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fisheries [Control of Citation Demersal (Bottom) Trawling Activities] Regulations, 1994. 573 2. In these Regulations- InterpntatioD "artisanal trawler" means a fishing vessel used for trawling, and equipped with a manually operated rig-handling system; "cod end" means the rear or posterior end of a trawl net in which the m~ority of fish or shrimp caught, is lodged during the fishing exercise; "demersal (bottom) trawling' means the dragging or pulling of a trawl net on the bottom of the sea, in order to catch a demersal or bottom living species; "east coast", "north coast", "south coast" and "Gulf of Paria" have the meanings assigned to them in the Schedule. 3. (1) Subject to this regulation, demersal (bottom) trawling for fish BeItrietlona or shrimp is permitted in the territorial waters of the north coast at a northcout distance outside of two nautical miles from that coast. (2) Where trawling of a kind referred to in subregulation (1) is carried out, the stretched mesh of the cod end of the trawl nets used, shall not be less than 7.5 em. (3 ins.) in the case of fish and 3.5 em (l.5 ins.) in the case of shrimp. (3) Where chafing gear is used, it shall be of netting material of stretched mesh of a size that is no smaller than that of the cod end of which it is being used and shall cover twenty-five per cent of the said cod end. 4. No trawling is permitted off the east coast. 6'76 Fisheries (Control ofDe"""'" (Bottom) Trowli", ktiuUieaJ Regulations, 19~ , ~ I' --·,----------------------1----r 1/ ~. ;: ;; to II; IJ... ::::::: ::::::. :i~·~:::::::::". 't·· ..·.. ·0" •••••.... \.:...... \\L\~.\~i~<>~:...... . I....... . ....... , .......... . . ::: :.::::: :. :::::::: ~...................... ... :.:..:..:.:-"'---;\.... , . ~ ~ ' . ·1-· . j ~~~)"'---;'" - ---:1· ~. , ~ J :.:..., Yo "ii: tl: '.lt, I," · -, " · ~I r. roc :J li~~~\ . ; ~ · ~ Jio ~ ,: o e ./.,.. ::i :~ '.-a • . ;- . .. , Made by the Minister this 23rd day of November, 1994. K. ROWLEY Minister ofAgriculture, Land and Marine Resources P1uNTED BY THE GoVERNMENT PRINTERY, PoRT-or,SPAIN REPUBLIC or TRiNIDAD AND TOBAGO-1994