S.I. No. 729/2021 - Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2021

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2021.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 2022.

2. The Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme Regulations 2018 (

S.I. No. 585 of 2018

) are amended –

(

a

) in Regulation 22, by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (9)

“ (10) A person shall not have in his or her possession any wild salmon or sea trout which he or she knows, or in the circumstances ought to know, was taken from a river other than a river mentioned in column 2 of Schedule 2.”,

(

b

) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 2

Schedule 2

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

3,758

Bride

0

Lickey

0

Tourig

0

Womanagh

0

Cork

Owenacurra

0

Lower Lee

628

Bandon

708

Ilen

817

Mealagh

191

Coomhola

134

Upper Lee

0

Glengarriff

191

Argideen

0

Owvane

397

Adrigole

0

Kerry

Roughty

349

Blackwater (Kerry)

0

Sneem

695

Waterville

301

Caragh

601

Laune including Cottoners

4,260

Maine

413

Common Estuary Castlemaine

1

4,024

Behy

0

Emlagh

0

Owenmore

182

Croanshagh (Glanmore River and Lake)

112

Sheen

710

Inny

0

Kealincha

0

Lough Fada

0

Owenshagh

0

Cloonee

0

Finnihy

0

Owenreagh

0

Emlaghmore

0

Carhan

0

Ferta

92

Owenascaul

0

Milltown

0

Feohanagh

0

Lee

0

Limerick

Feale including Galey and Brick

0

Mulkear

0

Maigue

0

Upper Shannon (Above Parteen)

0

Lower Shannon

0

Fergus

0

Deel

0

Owenagarney

0

Doonbeg

0

Skivaleen

0

Annageeragh

0

Inagh

0

Aughyvackeen

0

Galway

Corrib

4,139

Aille (Galway)

0

Kilcolgan

0

Clarinbridge

0

Knock

0

Owenboliska (Spiddal)

0

Connemara

Cashla

104

Screebe

0

Ballynahinch

43

Lough Na Furnace

0

Ballinakill

Erriff

693

Bundorragha

203

Common Estuary Killary

2

732

Owenglin (Clifden)

60

Dawros

814

Culfin

269

Carrownisky

0

Bunowen

90

Owenwee (Belclare)

0

Bangor

Srahmore (Burrishoole)

0

Owenduff (Glenamong)

667

Carrowmore Lake

486

Owenmore

474

Common Estuary Owenmore

3

487

Newport (including Lough Beltra)

243

Glenamoy

103

Owengarve River

0

Muingnabo

0

Ballina

Moy

12,555

Easkey

225

Cloonaghmore (Palmerstown)

0

Ballinglen

0

Brusna

0

Leaffony

0

Sligo

Ballysadare

2,013

Drumcliff

195

Garvogue (inc. Lough Gill and River Bonet)

0

Grange

0

Ballyshannon

Duff

0

Drowes

2,435

Eany

0

Glen

0

Owenwee (Yellow River)

117

Erne

0

Eske

0

Abbey

0

Ballintra (Murvagh R)

0

Laghy

0

Oily

0

Bungosteen

0

Letterkenny

Owenea/Owentocker

340

Gweebarra

216

Clady

220

Tullaghobegly

129

Crana

237

Gweedore (Crolly River)

294

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

(

c

) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 4

Schedule 4

Fishery districts and rivers to which brown tags apply

Fishery District

River

Designated code

Ballinakill

Owenglin

M4

Ballinakill

Bundorragha

J4

Bangor

Carrowmore

L4

Bangor

Newport

4

C3

Connemara

Ballynahinch

R4

Cork

Lower Lee

B4

Kerry

Waterville

4

D3

Letterkenny

Owenea and Owentocker

I4

Letterkenny

Crana

A4

Letterkenny

Gweebarra

P4

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

16 December 2021.

EAMON RYAN

Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications.

1 In the event that draft net fishing takes place in the Common Estuary Castlemaine, 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.

2 In the event that draft net fishing takes place in the Common Estuary Killary, 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.

3 In the event that draft net fishing takes place in the Common Estuary Owenmore, the combined total allowable catch of the Owenmore and Carrowmore contributing to the fishery is reduced to reflect the higher risk associated with meeting the individual river c onservation limits simultaneously.

4 Brown tag to 11 May only (brown tag not required from 12 May).

4 Brown tag to 11 May only (brown tag not required from 12 May).

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

31

st December,

2021.

I, EAMON RYAN, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 69

of the

Inland Fisheries Act 2010

(No. 10 of 2010) (as adapted by the Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (

S.I. No. 373 of 2020

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