S.I. No. 636/2016 - Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2016.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2016.

(2) These Regulations come into operation on 1 January 2017.

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

S.I. No. 573 of 2013

) (as amended by the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (

S.I. No. 581 of 2015

) 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 during the period from 1 January to 30 September in any year in respect of a river mentioned in column (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 paragraph (4) a brown tag issued to him or her under Regulation 6.”,

(

b

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

(

c

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

(

d

) in Regulation 21, by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (2)

“(2) This Regulation does not apply to any wild salmon or sea trout tagged in accordance with these Regulations which is purchased bona fide from a person fishing under a commercial fishing licence by or on behalf of a person for personal or for private leisure consumption.”,

(

e

) 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)

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

Corrock

0

Owenduff

0

Mahon

0

Tay

0

Lismore

Blackwater (Munster) including Glenshelane and Finisk

5,670

Bride

0

Lickey

0

Tourig

0

Womanagh

0

Cork

Owenacurra

0

Lower Lee

1,819

Bandon

797

Ilen

517

Mealagh

191

Coomhola

43

Upper Lee

0

Glengarriff

332

Argideen

143

Owvane

412

Adrigole

0

Kerry

Roughty

117

Blackwater (Kerry)

0

Sneem

695

Waterville

404

Caragh

1,348

Laune including Cottoners

4,560

Maine

272

Castlemaine Harbour

1

607

Behy

0

Emlagh

0

Owenmore

211

Croanshagh (Glanmore River and Lake)

157

Sheen

1,001

Inny

53

Kealincha

0

Lough Fada

0

Owenshagh

0

Cloonee

0

Finnihy

0

Owenreagh

0

Emlaghmore

0

Carhan

0

Ferta

109

Owenascaul

0

Milltown

0

Feohanagh

0

Lee

0

Limerick

Feale including Galey and Brick

954

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

5,470

Aille (Galway)

0

Kilcolgan

0

Clarinbridge

0

Knock

0

Owenboliska (Spiddal)

0

Connemara

Cashla

230

Screebe

0

Ballynahinch

829

Lough Na Furnace

0

Ballinakill

Erriff

114

Bundorragha

304

Common estuary

2

180

Owenglin (Clifden)

205

Dawros

454

Culfin

271

Carrownisky

0

Bunowen

310

Owenwee (Belclare)

0

Bangor

Srahmore (Burrishoole)

0

Carrowmore Lake

707

Owenduff (Glenamong)

979

Owenmore

0

Common estuary

0

Newport(including Lough Beltra)

416

Glenamoy

0

Owengarve River

0

Muingnabo

0

Ballina

Moy

14,925

Easkey

374

Cloonaghmore (Palmerstown)

0

Ballinglen

0

Brusna

0

Leaffony

0

Sligo

Ballysadare

3,350

Drumcliff

90

Garvogue (River Bonet and Lough Gill)

732

Grange

0

Ballyshannon

Duff

0

Drowes

2,545

Eany

0

Glen

0

Owenwee (Yellow River)

0

Erne

0

Eske

0

Abbey

0

Ballintra (Murvagh R)

0

Laghy

0

Oily

0

Bungosteen

0

Letterkenny

Owenea/Owentocker

320

Gweebarra

209

Clady

195

Tullaghobegly

0

Crana

0

Gweedore (Crolly River)

156

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

175

Dee

0

Flurry

0

(

f

) 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

G3

Cork

Coomhola

M3

Kerry

Roughty

L3

Kerry

Inny

O3

Limerick

Feale

F3

Ballinakill

Erriff

K3

Ballinakill

Bundorragha

K3

Bangor

Carrowmore

D3

and

(

g

) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 6

Schedule 6

Regulations 14, 17 and 20

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GIVEN under my hand,

20 December 2016.

SEAN KYNE,

Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment.

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.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

3

rd January

, 2017.

I, SEAN KYNE, Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, 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 2016 (

S.I. No. 420 of 2016

)(as adapted by the Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2016 (

S.I. No. 421 of 2016

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