S.I. No. 610/2014 - Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014.

(2) These Regulations come into operation on 1 January 2015.

2. The Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme Regulations 2013 (

S.I. No. 573 of 2013

) are amended—

(

a

) in Regulation 5, by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (1)

“(1) In addition to the tagging requirements contained in Regulation 3, where a person lawfully catches and retains a wild salmon or sea trout by rod and line—

(

a

) from 1 January to 30 September in any year, in respect of a river mentioned in column (2) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 that opens on or after 1 January in accordance with bye-laws, or

(

b

) from 1 January to 11 May in any year, in respect of a river mentioned in column (2) of Part 2 of Schedule 4 that opens on or after 1 January in accordance with bye-laws,

he or she shall attach to the fish in accordance with this Regulation a brown tag issued to him or her under Regulation 6.”,

(

b

) in Regulation 7(1), by the substitution of “a river mentioned in Part 1 and Part 2 of Schedule 4” for “a river mentioned in Schedule 4”,

(

c

) in Regulation 8(1), by the substitution of “a river mentioned in column (2) of Part 1 and column (2) of Part 2 of Schedule 4 opposite mention, in column (1) of Part 1 and column (1) of Part 2, as the case may be, of that Schedule” for “a river mentioned in column (2) of Schedule 4 opposite mention, in column (1) of that Schedule”,

(

d

) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 2

Schedule 2

Regulations 3(7), 4(8), 10, 11 and 22

Rivers

Total Allowable Catch

Fishery district(1)

Waters of the River(2)

Proposed maximum number of tags that may be issued in respect of taking wild salmon or sea trout from river(3)

Dublin

Dargle

0

Upper Liffey

0

Lower Liffey (downstream of Leixlip Dam)

0

Vartry

0

Wexford

Slaney

0

Avoca

0

Owenavorragh

0

Waterford

Barrow and Pollmounty

0

Nore

0

Suir including Clodiagh, Lingaun, and Waterford Blackwater

0

Colligan

0

Corock R

0

Owenduff

0

Mahon

0

Tay

0

Lismore

Blackwater (Munster) including Glenshelane and Finisk

5,752

Bride

0

Lickey

0

Tourig

0

Womanagh

0

Cork

Owenacurra

22

Lower Lee

1,948

Bandon

1,360

Ilen

766

Mealagh

191

Coomhola

62

Upper Lee

0

Glengarriff

326

Argideen

160

Owvane

475

Adrigole

0

Kerry

Roughty

236

Blackwater (Kerry)

0

Sneem

695

Waterville

403

Caragh}

1,205

Laune including Cottoners}

4,525

Maine}

1,157

Castlemaine Harbour

1

868

Behy

0

Emlagh

0

Owenmore

211

Croanshagh (Glanmore River and Lake)

67

Sheen

147

Inny

310

Kealincha

0

Lough Fada

0

Owenshagh

0

Cloonee

0

Finnihy

0

Owenreagh

0

Emlaghmore

0

Carhan

0

Ferta

86

Owenascaul

0

Milltown

0

Feohanagh

0

Lee

0

Limerick

Feale including Galey and Brick

2,554

Mulkear

0

Maigue

0

Shannon River

0

Fergus

0

Deel

0

Owenagarney

0

Doonbeg

0

Skivaleen

0

Annageeragh

0

Inagh

0

Aughyvackeen

0

Galway

Corrib

4,966

Aille (Galway)

0

Kilcolgan

0

Clarinbridge

0

Knock

0

Owenboliska (Spiddal)

0

Connemara

Cashla

356

Screebe

61

Ballynahinch

1,599

Lough Na Furnace

0

Ballinakill

Erriff}

806

Bundorragha}

316

Common estuary

2

(Killary)

970

Owenglin (Clifden)

396

Dawros

669

Culfin

265

Carrownisky

0

Bunowen

400

Owenwee (Belclare)

94

Bangor

Srahmore (Burrishoole)

0

Carrowmore Lake

656

Owenduff (Glenamong}

1,751

Owenmore

0

Common estuary

0

Newport(including Lough Beltra)

472

Glenamoy

171

Owengarve River

0

Muingnabo

0

Ballina

Moy

20,020

Easkey

711

Cloonaghmore (Palmerstown)

0

Ballinglen

0

Brusna

0

Leaffony

0

Sligo

Ballysadare

2,947

Drumcliff

125

Garvogue (River Bonet and Lough Gill)

245

Grange

0

Ballyshannon

Duff

218

Drowes

2,739

Eany

0

Glen

208

Owenwee (Yellow River)

0

Erne

0

Eske

0

Abbey

0

Ballintra (Murvagh R)

0

Laghy

0

Oily

0

Bungosteen

0

Letterkenny

Owenea/Owentocker

919

Gweebarra

280

Clady

229

Tullaghobegly

68

Crana

281

Gweedore (Crolly River)

273

Ray

0

Lackagh

0

Leannan

0

Bracky

0

Owenamarve

0

Glenna

0

Swilly

0

Isle (Burn)

0

Mill

0

Clonmany

0

Straid

0

Donagh

0

Glenagannon

0

Culoort

0

Drogheda

Boyne

0

Dundalk

Castletown

0

Fane

59

Glyde

124

Dee

0

Flurry

0

”,

and

(

e

) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 4

Schedule 4

Regulations 5, 7 and 8

Fishery districts and rivers to which brown tags apply

Part 1

Fishery district

River

Designated code

Dundalk

Fane

I3

Dundalk

Glyde

N3

Cork

Coomhola

S3

Kerry

Croanshagh

Q3

Kerry

Roughty

R3

Kerry

Ferta

U3

Limerick

Feale, Galey and Brick

J3

Connemara

Screebe

O3

Ballinakill

Owenwee (Belclare)

P3

Bangor

Carrowmore

L3

Letterkenny

Tullaghobegly

K3

Part 2

Fishery district

River

Designated code

Bangor

Newport R (inc Lough Beltra)

M3

GIVEN under my hand,

22 December 2014.

JOE MCHUGH,

Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

These regulations provide for, the quotas of fish that can be harvested by commercial fishing engines and rod and line from those rivers identified in Schedule 2. The Regulations also provide for the use of brown tags in specified rivers which are identified in Schedule 4.

1In the event that draft net fishing takes place in the common estuary, the combined total allowable catch of the rivers Caragh, Laune and Maine contributing to the fishery is reduced to reflect the higher risk associated with meeting the individual river conservation limits simultaneously

2In the event that draft net fishing takes place in the common estuary, the combined total allowable catch of the rivers Erriff and Bundorragha contributing to the fishery is reduced to reflect the higher risk associated with meeting the individual river conservation limits simultaneously. MSW surplus for Bundorragha is not to be added to the 1SW surplus for the purposes of calculating common embayment surplus.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

6

th January

, 2015.

I, JOE MCHUGH, Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 69 and 78(3)(

a

)(v) of the

Inland Fisheries Act 2010

(No. 10 of 2010) and the Energy and Natural Resources (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014 (

S.I. No. 585 of 2014

) after consultation with Inland Fisheries Ireland, hereby make the following regulations