Aquatic
Resources (Seaweed Licences) (Jersey) Regulations 2019
1 Interpretation
In these Regulations –
“commercial purposes”, in
relation to the harvesting of seaweed, means the harvesting of seaweed with a
view to financial reward or profit;
“harvest”, in relation to
seaweed, means the removal of seaweed from the marine environment by cutting
it, pulling it or by any other means of physically detaching it from a natural
hard substrate that is preventing its displacement by the normal action of the
environment such as tides and currents;
“harvesting by hand” means the
detachment of seaweed from the marine environment directly by hand, such as by
pulling it or by means of a tool such as a knife or scissors where the only
source of energy for the detachment is generated by the individual using the
tool;
“mechanical harvesting” means
harvesting which is not harvesting by hand;
“recreational purposes” means
purposes which are not commercial purposes;
“seaweed” means seaweed of a
species listed in column 1 of the Table;
“Table” means the table in
Regulation 6.
2 Mechanical harvesting
prohibited
Mechanical harvesting of seaweed is prohibited.
3 Harvesting by hand for
commercial purposes
(1) A person must not harvest by hand seaweed
for commercial purposes unless that person is authorised by a licence granted
under Regulation 4.
(2) The amount of seaweed of any species
harvested each day by a person granted a licence under Regulation 4 must
not exceed the amount specified in column 3 of the Table in the same row
as that species.
4 Licences for harvesting
by hand for commercial purposes
(1) An application for a licence, or for the
renewal of a licence, must be made in such form and manner as the Minister may
determine and accompanied by –
(a) such information as the Minister
requires; and
(b) such fee as may be prescribed
by the Minister by Order.
(2) Upon receipt of an application which meets
the requirements of paragraph (1) and of any further information the
Minister may require, the Minister may grant a licence or renew a licence.
(3) A licence or renewal of a licence, if
granted, is for such period of time and subject to such conditions as the
Minister may determine.
5 Harvesting by hand for
recreational purposes
The amount of seaweed of any species harvested for recreational
purposes each day by a person must not exceed the amount specified in
column 2 of the Table in the same row as that species.
6 Daily limits for
harvesting
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Species
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Recreational purposes
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Commercial purposes
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Latin name
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English name
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kg per day
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Alaria esculenta
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Dabberlocks
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0
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0
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Ascophyllum nodosum
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Egg
Wrack
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5
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20
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Codium bursa
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Velvet
Horn
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0
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0
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Fucus serratus
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Serrated
Wrack
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10
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50
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Fucus spiralis
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Spiral
Wrack
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10
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50
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Fucus vesiculosus
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Bladder
Wrack
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10
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50
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Himanthalia elongata
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Thong
Weed
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0
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0
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Laminaria digitata
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Oar
Weed
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10
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50
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Laminaria hyperborea
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Forest
Kelp
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10
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50
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Laminaria ochroleuca
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Golden
Kelp
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10
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50
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Phymatolithon spp.
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Maerl
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0
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0
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Lithothamnion spp.
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Maerl
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0
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0
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Padina pavonica
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Peacocks
Tail
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0
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0
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Saccharina latissima
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Sugar
Kelp
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10
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50
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Sargassum muticum
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Wireweed
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10
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50
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Undaria pinnatifida
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Wakame
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10
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50
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Red
and brown seaweed species not listed above
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5
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10
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7 Citation and
commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Aquatic Resources (Seaweed Licences)
(Jersey) Regulations 2019 and shall come into force on the same day that
the Aquatic Resources (Jersey)
Law 2014 comes into force.