S.I. No. 581/2015 - Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015

(2) These Regulations come into operation on 1 January 2016.

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

S.I. No. 573 of 2013

) are amended—

(

a

) 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

3,714

Bride

0

Lickey

0

Tourig

0

Womanagh

0

Cork

Owenacurra

8

Lower Lee

1,612

Bandon

584

Ilen

657

Mealagh

191

Coomhola

24

Upper Lee

0

Glengarriff

332

Argideen

92

Owvane

530

Adrigole

0

Kerry

Roughty

209

Blackwater (Kerry)

0

Sneem

695

Waterville

329

Caragh}

1,327

Laune including Cottoners}

4,537

Maine}

924

Castlemaine Harbour

1

763

Behy

0

Emlagh

0

Owenmore

211

Croanshagh (Glanmore River and Lake)

0

Sheen

300

Inny

289

Kealincha

0

Lough Fada

0

Owenshagh

0

Cloonee

0

Finnihy

0

Owenreagh

0

Emlaghmore

0

Carhan

0

Ferta

117

Owenascaul

0

Milltown

0

Feohanagh

0

Lee

0

Limerick

Feale including Galey and Brick

1,452

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

5,227

Aille (Galway)

0

Kilcolgan

0

Clarinbridge

0

Knock

0

Owenboliska (Spiddal)

0

Connemara

Cashla

375

Screebe

26

Ballynahinch

1,321

Lough Na Furnace

0

Ballinakill

Erriff}

574

Bundorragha}

324

Common estuary

2

726

Owenglin (Clifden)

402

Dawros

580

Culfin

271

Carrownisky

0

Bunowen

447

Owenwee (Belclare)

33

Bangor

Srahmore (Burrishoole)

0

Carrowmore Lake

707

Owenduff (Glenamong}

1,268

Owenmore

0

Common estuary

0

Newport(including Lough Beltra)

467

Glenamoy

86

Owengarve River

0

Muingnabo

0

Ballina

Moy

19,012

Easkey

344

Cloonaghmore (Palmerstown)

0

Ballinglen

0

Brusna

0

Leaffony

0

Sligo

Ballysadare

2,616

Drumcliff

126

Garvogue (River Bonet and Lough Gill)

658

Grange

0

Ballyshannon

Duff

0

Drowes

2,707

Eany

0

Glen

116

Owenwee (Yellow River)

0

Erne

0

Eske

0

Abbey

0

Ballintra (Murvagh R)

0

Laghy

0

Oily

0

Bungosteen

0

Letterkenny

Owenea/Owentocker

558

Gweebarra

310

Clady

219

Tullaghobegly

0

Crana

0

Gweedore (Crolly River)

121

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

0

Glyde

81

Dee

0

Flurry

0

and

(

b

) 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

Fishery district

River

Designated code

Dundalk

Glyde

F3

Cork

Coomhola

C3

Kerry

Roughty

C4

Limerick

Feale

B3

Connemara

Screebe

Z3

Ballinakill

Owenwee (Belcare)

X3

Bangor

Glenamoy

H3

Bangor

Carrowmore

A3

3. The Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2014 (

S.I. No. 610 of 2014

) are revoked.

GIVEN under my hand,

14 December 2015.

JOE MCHUGH,

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

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This 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.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

1

st January

, 2016.

I, JOE McHUGH, Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

Section 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

), hereby make the following regulations