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

The principal changes are as follows:–

1. The Regulations designate four waters as rainbow trout waters for the purposes of regulation 73(2)(b) of the Fisheries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 which provides that there shall be no close season for angling for rainbow trout in waters so designated (regulation 3).

2. Appeals against the revocation or refusal to issue or renew a fishing licence are now to a magistrates’ court instead of the Department (regulation 4).