S.I. No. 602/2017 - Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2017

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

(2) These Regulations come into operation on 1 January 2018.

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

S.I. No. 573 of 2013

) (amended by the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (

S.I. No. 636 of 2016

)) 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)

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

7,677

Bride

0

Lickey

0

Tourig

0

Womanagh

0

Cork

Owenacurra

0

Lower Lee

1,801

Bandon

818

Ilen

784

Mealagh

191

Coomhola

62

Upper Lee

0

Glengarriff

332

Argideen

103

Owvane

337

Adrigole

0

Kerry

Roughty

116

Blackwater (Kerry)

0

Sneem

695

Waterville

403

Caragh

1,298

Laune including Cottoners

4,431

Maine

255

Castlemaine Harbour

1

606

Behy

0

Emlagh

0

Owenmore

211

Croanshagh (Glanmore River and Lake)

203

Sheen

1,248

Inny

0

Kealincha

0

Lough Fada

0

Owenshagh

0

Cloonee

0

Finnihy

0

Owenreagh

0

Emlaghmore

0

Carhan

0

Ferta

0

Owenascaul

0

Milltown

0

Feohanagh

0

Lee

0

Limerick

Feale including Galey and Brick

658

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

6,281

Aille (Galway)

0

Kilcolgan

0

Clarinbridge

0

Knock

0

Owenboliska (Spiddal)

0

Connemara

Cashla

182

Screebe

0

Ballynahinch

632

Lough Na Furnace

0

Ballinakill

Erriff

254

Bundorragha

259

Common estuary

2

321

Owenglin (Clifden)

193

Dawros

381

Culfin

196

Carrownisky

0

Bunowen

95

Owenwee (Belclare)

0

Bangor

Srahmore (Burrishoole)

0

Carrowmore Lake

708

Owenduff (Glenamong)

794

Owenmore

0

Common estuary

0

Newport(including Lough Beltra)

417

Glenamoy

60

Owengarve River

0

Muingnabo

0

Ballina

Moy

16,512

Easkey

525

Cloonaghmore (Palmerstown)

0

Ballinglen

0

Brusna

0

Leaffony

0

Sligo

Ballysadare

3,545

Drumcliff

229

Garvogue (River Bonet and Lough Gill)

437

Grange

0

Ballyshannon

Duff

0

Drowes

2,653

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

0

Gweebarra

230

Clady

341

Tullaghobegly

0

Crana

0

Gweedore (Crolly River)

0

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

0

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

Cork

Coomhola

W3

Kerry

Roughty

S3

Limerick

Feale

D4

Ballinakill

Erriff

E4

Ballinakill

Bundorragha

E4

Bangor

Glenamoy

Y3

Bangor

Carrowmore

Q3

Letterkenny

Gweebarra

V3

3. The following are revoked

(

a

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

S.I. No. 581 of 2015

);

(

b

) Regulation 2(

e

) and (

f

) of the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (

S.I. No. 636 of 2016

).

GIVEN under my hand,

20 December 2017.

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

2

nd January

, 2018.

I, Sean Kyne, Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 69

of the

Inland Fisheries Act 2010

(No. 10 of 2010) and the Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2017 (

S.I. No. 314 of 2017

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