Amendment2
The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) Order 19982 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—
SCHEDULESPECIES OF FISH WHOSE KEEPING OR RELEASE IN ANY PART OF ENGLAND IS PROHIBITED EXCEPT UNDER AUTHORITY OF A LICENCE GRANTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE
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)