These Regulations prescribe and adopt Council Regulation (EC) No. 2549/2000, which establishes certain technical measures for the recovery of the stock of cod in the Irish Sea. The provisions of the Council Regulation, being measures for the recovery of the stocks of cod in so far as they relate to the exclusive fishery limits of the State, are hereby prescribed and adopted and accordingly any infringement of the Council Regulation within these limits, after the commencement of these Regulations, shall be an infringement of these Regulations. Where, in proceedings in which a contravention of these Regulations is alleged, it is proved that: (a) fish were found on board a sea-fishing boat, and (b) at the time when the fish were so found the sea-fishing boat concerned was within the Irish Sea, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that all of the fish so found were taken within the Irish Sea.