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2004 No. 504

FISHERIES

Fisheries (Amendment No. 2) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2004

  Made 8th December 2004 
  Coming into operation 1st January 2005 

The Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 26(1), 37(1), 95, 114(1)(b) and 115(1)(b) of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966[1], with the approval of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure[2], hereby make the following Byelaws:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Byelaws may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment No. 2) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2005.

Amendment of the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003
    
2. The Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003[3] shall be amended as provided in Byelaws 3 to 7.

Annual close seasons for angling for salmon or trout
     3. In Byelaw 76 for the word "begimming" there shall be substituted the word "beginning".

Licence duties and fee
    
4. For Schedule 3 (fishing engines and licence duties) there shall be substituted the following Schedule:




List of waters on which a coarse fishing rod licence is valid
    
5. In Schedule 4 in the list of waters on which a coarse fishing rod licence is valid -

List of waters where there is no close season for rainbow trout
    
6. In Schedule 6 in the list of rainbow trout waters where there is no annual close season for angling for rainbow trout -

Revocation
    
7. The Fisheries (Amendment) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2004[4] are hereby revoked.



Sealed with the Common Seal of the Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland on


6th December 2004.

L.S.


R. J. Hanna
Chairman
L.S.


K. A. Simpson (Mrs.)
Secretary


The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure hereby approves the foregoing Byelaws.



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on


8th December 2004.

L.S.


N. Carson
A senior officer of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Byelaws.)


These Byelaws amend the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003 and revoke the Fisheries (Amendment) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2004.

The principal changes are as follows:

    
1. Byelaw 4 increases the licence duties payable from 1st January 2005 for fishing with rod and line and hand line for salmon and freshwater fish and for commercial fishing engines used for the taking of salmon and freshwater fish other than eels, together with the fee payable for a licence which authorises the holder to buy and sell salmon, trout and eels.

The new rates of licence duties and fee, and the size of the increase, where applicable, are set out below:

     Previous rate New rate Increase
     £ £ £
Season game fishing rod licence 15.00 15.50 0.50
Fourteen day game fishing rod licence 7.50 7.50 0.00
Three day game fishing rod licence 3.50 3.50 0.00
Concessionary season fishing rod licence 5.00 5.00 0.00
Juvenile season fishing rod licence 2.00 2.00 0.00
Amount payable by the holder of a current Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission game fishing rod and line licence for a game fishing rod licence 1.00 1.00 0.00
Season coarse fishing rod licence 15.00 15.50 0.50
Fourteen day coarse fishing rod licence 7.50 7.50 0.00
Three day coarse fishing rod licence for use by the holder of a three day coarse fishing permit issued by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure to fish in waters in which the Department has the fishing rights 3.50 3.50 0.00
Licence for a draft net for the capture of salmon and freshwater fish on Lough Neagh 110.00 113.00 3.00
Licence for a single wall set net or trammel net for the capture of trout or rainbow trout in Lough Neagh, per 91 metres (100 yards) 15.00 15.50 0.50
Licence for a single wall set net or trammel net for the taking of freshwater fish other than trout or rainbow trout, per 91 metres (100 yards) 15.00 15.50 0.50
Licence for a bait net for the taking of freshwater fish other than trout or rainbow trout for use as bait - per net 5.00 5.00 0.00
Licence for a fixed tidal draft net 348.50 358.00 9.50
Licence for a tidal draft net 289.00 297.00 8.00
Drift net licence 289.00 289.00 8.00
Licence for a bag net used in tidal waters 653.00 671.00 18.00
Dealer's licence 43.00 44.00 1.00

    
2. Byelaw 5 amends the references to the River Lagan and Lower Lough Erne in Schedule 4 (list of waters on which a coarse fishing rod licence is valid) and removes Lough Money from the Schedule.

    
3. Byelaw 6 designates two waters as rainbow trout waters for the purposes of Byelaw 73(2)(b), which provides that there shall be no close season for angling for rainbow trout in waters so designated.


Notes:

[1] 1966 c. 17 (N.I.); section 26(1) was amended by Article 8(3) of the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1466 (N.I. 13)) and by section 5 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (2001 c. 4 (N.I.)); section 37 was substituted by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (1968 c. 31 (N.I.)) and was amended by Article 9 of the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and by section 6 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001; sections 114(1)(b) and 115(1)(b) were amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991back

[2] Functions transferred by virtue of S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 3 and Schedule 1back

[3] S.R. 2003 No.525 as amended by S.R. 2004 No. 74back

[4] S.R. 2004 No. 74back



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  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 20 December 2004


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