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S.I. No. 70/2015 - Control of Fishing for Salmon (Amendment) Order 2015.
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Control of Fishing for Salmon (Amendment) Order 2015.
(2) This Order shall come into operation on 28 February 2015.
2. The Control of Fishing for Salmon Order 2014 (
S.I. No. 132 of 2014
) is amended—
(
a
) in Article 5—
(i) in paragraph (1), by the substitution of “Subject to paragraph (2A), the maximum number” for “The maximum number”, and
(ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (2)
“(2A) The maximum number of fishing licences for any kind of fishing engine for the taking of salmon issued in respect of a fishery district in any year shall not exceed the average number of such fishing licences issued for that fishery district in the previous 3 fishing seasons when such licences were issued for that fishery district where the average number is the total number of such licences issued in those 3 fishing seasons divided by 3.”,
(
b
) in Article 11, by the substitution of “23 March 2015” for “28 March 2014”,
(
c
) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 1
Schedule 1
Articles 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10.
Fishing Licences
(1) Fishery District
(2) Fishing Engine
(3) Maximum number of fishing licences
No. 17(2) or Dundalk District
Draft net
0
No. 17(1) or Drogheda District
Draft net
0
No. 1 or Dublin District
Draft net
0
No. 2 or Wexford District
Draft net
0
No. 3 or Waterford District
Snap net
0
No. 4 or Lismore District
Draft net
0
No. 5 or Cork District
Draft net
17
No. 7 or Kerry District
Draft net
14
No. 8 or Limerick District
Draft net
49
No. 9(1) or Galway District
Draft net
0
No. 9(2) or Connemara District
Draft net
0
No. 101 or Ballinakill District
Draft net
16
No. 102 or Bangor District
Draft net (special tidal waters)
23
Draft net
1
No. 11 or Ballina District
Draft net
0
No. 12 or Sligo District
Draft net
0
No. 13 or Ballyshannon District
Draft net
0
No. 141 or Letterkenny District
Draft net (special tidal waters)
12
Draft net
10
and
(
d
) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 2
Schedule 2
Article 11.
CONTROL OF FISHING FOR SALMON ORDER 2015
(S.I. No.
of 2015)
APPLICATION FOR A SALMON FISHING LICENCE (OTHER THAN ROD AND LINE)
IN THE
FISHERY DISTRICT
Part 1
Name of Applicant
Date of Birth
Home Address
Tel
(
a
) If you held a salmon net fishing licence in all, or any, of the last three salmon fishing seasons, insert in the table below the year(
s
) in which you held the licence and the numbers of fish caught during those years. (Alternatively, you can tick the box for numbers of fish caught and IFI will enter these details onto the form from your logbook returns during those years).
(
b
) If you did not hold a salmon net fishing licence for any of the last three salmon fishing seasons but were authorised and named on a licence held by a person referred to at (1), complete the table below giving appropriate details.
Please tick if you wish these details to be taken from your logbook returns ()
Year
Licence holder/authorised person(please state which)
No. of salmon caught
No. of sea trout over 40cm caught
1
2
3
(
c
) I have/have not held a salmon licence issued by the Foyle Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission during the last three years (If so give particulars).
(
d
) I hereby apply for a salmon fishing licence to operate a
(state type of net etc.) during the
season in the
fishery district.
(
e
) I wish to have the following person authorised and named to operate the licence in my absence during the
season in accordance with the Control of Fishing for Salmon Order 2015 (S.I. No.
of 2015).
Name
Date of Birth
Address
Tel. No.
Signature of applicant
Date
Part 2
CERTIFICATE
This certificate must be completed in every application
I,
certify that Mr/Mrs/Ms
who is known to me, is ordinarily resident in the address stated in Part I and signed this form in my presence.
Signature
Official Stamp
*Position
Address
______________
*Note
: The signature of the applicant for a fishing licence must be witnessed by either a Peace Commissioner, a clergyman or a member of the Garda Síochána in whose district the applicant resides.
The latest date for receipt of completed application forms is 23 March 2015 at 5.00 p.m. Completed application forms should be sent to
The Chief Executive Officer,
Inland Fisheries Ireland
______________
______________
PARTS I AND II OF THIS APPLICATION FORM MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE FORM IS RETURNED TO IFI AT THE ADDRESS INDICATED ABOVE.
PLEASE ATTACH BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF APPLICANT AND IF APPLICABLE, OF PERSON AUTHORISED TO OPERATE THE LICENCE.
GIVEN under my Hand,
25 February 2015.
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)
This Order amends the Control of Fishing for Salmon Order 2014 (
S.I. No. 132 of 2014
), authorising the issue of commercial fishing licences by Inland Fisheries Ireland, and prescribes the maximum number of commercial licences which may be issued.
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
“Iris Oifigiúil” of
3
rd March
, 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
section 29
of the
Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1962
(No. 31 of 1962), the Fisheries (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 1977 (
S.I. No. 30 of 1977
) (adapted by the Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2007 (
S.I. No. 706 of 2007
)), and the Energy and Natural Resources (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014 (
S.I. No. 585 of 2014
) hereby order as follows