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2. The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) Order 1998(1) shall be amended in relation to England as follows—
(a)in Article 2 (which prohibits the keeping or release of specified fish except under licence) for the words “the Minister” there shall be substituted the words “the Secretary of State”; and
(b)for the Schedule (which specifies the species of fish whose keeping or release is prohibited except under licence) there shall be substituted the following Schedule—
Article 2
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
|---|---|
| Asp | Aspius aspius |
| Barbel species | species of the genus Barbus (excluding the native Barbus barbus) |
| Bass species (including striped bass, white bass and their crosses e.g. hybrid striped bass) | species of the genus Morone |
| Big-head carp | Aristichthys nobilis |
| Bitterling | Rhodeus sericeus/Rhodeus amarus |
| Blacknose Dace | Rhinichthys atratulus |
| Blageon | Leuciscus souffia |
| Blue Sucker | Cycleptus elongatus |
| Blue bream | Abramis ballerus |
| Burbot | Lota lota |
| Catfish | species of the genera Ictalurus, Ameiurus and Silurus |
| Charr species (including American Brook Trout) | species of the genus Salvelinus (excluding the native Salvelinus alpinus) |
| Chinese black or snail-eating carp | Mylopharyngodon piceus |
| Chinese Sucker also known as Zebra Hi Fin or banded shark/sucker | Myxocyprinus asiaticus |
| Common White Sucker | Catostomus commersoni |
| Danubian bleak | Chalcalburnus chalcoides |
| Danubian Salmon and Taimen | species of the genus Hucho |
| Eastern Mudminnow | Umbra pygmaea |
| European Mudminnow | Umbra krameri |
| Fathead minnow or Roseyreds | Pimephales promelas |
| Freshwater minnow also known as Dragon fish or Pale chub | Zacco platypus |
| Grass carp | Ctenopharyngodon idella |
| Landlocked salmon | non-anadromous varieties of the species Salmo salar |
| Large-mouthed black bass | Micropterus salmoides |
| Marbled trout | Salmo marmoratus |
| Nase | Chondrostoma nasus |
| Northern Redbelly Dace (common minnow) | Phoxinus/Chrosomus eos |
| Pacific salmon and trout (excluding rainbow trout but including steelheads) | species of the genus Oncorhynchus |
| Paddlefish | species of the genera Polyodon and Psephurus |
| Perch species | species of the genus Perca (excluding the native Perca fluviatilis) |
| Pike-perch (including zander) | species of the genus Stizostedion |
| Pike species | species of the genus Esox (excluding the native Esox lucius) |
| Red shiner | Cyprinella/Notropis lutrensis |
| Rock bass | Ambloplites rupestris |
| Schneider | Alburnoides bipunctatus |
| Silver carp | Hypophthalmichthys molitrix |
| Snakehead, Northern or Chinese | Channa argus |
| Small-mouth bass | Micropterus dolomieu |
| Southern Redbelly Dace (common minnow) | Phoxinus/Chrosomus erythrogaster |
| Sturgeon or sterlet | species of the genera Acipenser, Huso, Pseudoscaphirhynchus and Scaphirhynchus |
| Sunbleak also known as Sundace, Belica or Motherless Minnow | Leucaspius delineatus |
| Sunfish (including Pumpkinseed, basses, crappies and bluegills) | species of the genus Lepomis |
| Topmouth gudgeon | Pseudorasbora parva |
| Toxostome or French nase | Chondrostoma toxostoma |
| Vimba | Vimba vimba |
| Weather fish | Misgurnus fossilis |
| Whitefish species | species of the genus Coregonus (excluding the native Coregonus lavaretus and Coregonus albula)” |
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