Fisheries (Amendment) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Byelaws)

These Byelaws amend the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003.

The principal changes are as follows:–

1.  The Byelaws increase the licence duties payable from 1^st January 2007 for some fishing rod licences and some commercial fishing engines used for the taking of salmon and freshwater fish other than eels, together with the fee payable for a licence which authorises the holder to buy and sell salmon, trout and eels (Byelaw 3).

The new licence fee rates for 2007, and the size of the increases are set out below:–

	Previous Rate	New Rate	Increase
	£	£	£
Season game fishing rod licence	16.00	16.00	0.00
Fourteen day game fishing rod licence	8.00	8.00	0.00
Three day game fishing rod licence	3.50	3.50	0.00
Concessionary season fishing rod licence	5.00	5.00	0.00
Juvenile season fishing rod licence	2.00	2.00	0.00
Amount payable by the holder of a current Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights game fishing rod and line licence for a game fishing rod licence	1.00	1.00	0.00
Season coarse fishing rod licence	16.00	16.00	0.00
Fourteen day coarse fishing rod licence	8.00	8.00	0.00
Three day coarse fishing rod licence for use by the holder of a three day coarse fishing permit issued by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure to fish in waters in which the Department has the fishing rights.	3.50	3.50	0.00
Licence for a draft net for the capture of salmon and freshwater fish on Lough Neagh	117.00	119.50	2.50
Licence for a single wall set net or trammel net for the capture of trout or rainbow trout in Lough Neagh per 91 metres (100 yards)	16.00	16.00	0.00
Licence for a single wall set net or trammel net for the taking of freshwater fish other than trout or rainbow trout per 91 metres (100 yards)	16.00	16.00	0.00
Licence for a bait net for the taking of freshwater fish other than trout or rainbow trout for use as bait – per net	5.00	5.00	0.00
Licence for a fixed tidal draft net	370.50	378.50	8.00
Licence for a tidal draft net	307.00	314.00	7.00
	Previous Rate	New Rate	Increase
	£	£	£
Drift net licence for the taking of salmon in the sea	307.00	314.00	7.00
Licence for a bag net used in tidal waters	694.00	709.00	15.00
Dealer’s licence	45.50	46.50	1.00

2.  The Byelaws designate a number of waters as rainbow trout waters for the purposes of Byelaw 73(2)(b) of the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003 which provides that there shall be no close season for angling for rainbow trout in waters so designated (Byelaw 4).