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

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)