The Caithness Salmon Fishery District Designation Order 1990

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Caithness Salmon Fishery District Designation Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st March 1990.

Designation of Caithness Salmon Fishery District

2.—(1) The area described in Schedule 1 to this Order is designated as a salmon fishery district to be known as the Caithness Salmon Fishery District.

(2) The following existing salmon fishery districts, namely the Forss, Thurso, Wick, Dunbeath and Berriedale Salmon Fishery Districts, being salmon fishery districts superseded by the Caithness Salmon Fishery District, are abolished.

Application of Regulations

3.  The general regulations made under the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Acts 1862 to 1868(1) as respects the matters specified in section 6(6) of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1862 shall apply to the Caithness Salmon Fishery District as if the references to the districts abolished by article 2(2) of this Order were references to the Caithness Salmon Fishery District.

Annual close time

4.  The annual close time for the Caithness Salmon Fishery District shall be the period from 27th August to 10th February, both dates inclusive, in each year, and the period or, as the case may be, periods within that time when it is permitted to fish for and take salmon by rod and line shall be the period or, as the case may be, periods in each year set out in column 2 of Schedule 2 to this Order opposite to the parts of the Caithness Salmon Fishery District described in column 1 of that Schedule.

T. J. Kelly

Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland,

Pentland House,

Edinburgh

21st February 1990