
1 
This Order may be cited as the East Lewis Salmon Fishery District Designation Order 1989 and shall come into force on 6th November 1989.
2 

(1) The area described in the Schedule to this Order is designated as a salmon fishery district to be known as the East Lewis Salmon Fishery District.
(2) The existing salmon fishery districts of the River Creed or Stornoway and River Laxay and of the River Greiss, being salmon fishery districts superseded by the East Lewis Salmon Fishery District, are abolished.
3 
The general regulations made under the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Acts 1862 to 1868() as respects the matters specified in section 6(6) of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1862 shall have effect in relation to the East Lewis Salmon Fishery District as they had effect, immediately before the coming into force of this Order, in the districts abolished by article 2(2) of this Order.
4 
The annual close time for the East Lewis Salmon Fishery District shall be the period from 27th August to 10th February, both dates inclusive, in each year, and the period within that time when it is permitted to fish for and take salmon by rod and line shall be the period from 27th August to 31st October, both dates inclusive, in each year.
T J Kelly
Assistant Secretary Scottish Office
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland
Pentland House,
Edinburgh
10th October 1989
SCHEDULE
Article 2(1)

The area comprising the catchment area of each river which flows directly or indirectly into the sea on the east coast of the Isle of Lewis between, in the north, the Butt of Lewis (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference No NB 520665) and, in the south, the boundary between the Isle of Lewis and Harris and the adjacent area of sea which extends seaward for three miles from mean low water springs.
