
1 
This Order may be cited as the Caithness Salmon Fishery District Designation Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st March 1990.
2 

(1) The area described in Schedule 1 to this Order is designated as a salmon fishery district to be known as the Caithness Salmon Fishery District.
(2) The following existing salmon fishery districts, namely the Forss, Thurso, Wick, Dunbeath and Berriedale Salmon Fishery Districts, being salmon fishery districts superseded by the Caithness Salmon Fishery District, are abolished.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 apply to the Caithness Salmon Fishery District as if the references to the districts abolished by article 2(2) of this Order were references to the Caithness Salmon Fishery District.
4 
The annual close time for the Caithness Salmon Fishery District shall be the period from 27th August to 10th February, both dates inclusive, in each year, and the period or, as the case may be, periods within that time when it is permitted to fish for and take salmon by rod and line shall be the period or, as the case may be, periods in each year set out in column 2 of Schedule 2 to this Order opposite to the parts of the Caithness Salmon Fishery District described in column 1 of that Schedule.
T. J. Kelly
Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland,
Pentland House,
Edinburgh
21st February 1990
SCHEDULE 1
Article 2(1)

The area comprising the catchment area of each river which flows directly or indirectly into the sea on the coast of the District of Caithness in Highland Region between, on the north coast, Geodh Eisgiadh (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference NC 91946537) and, on the east coast, Ord Point (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference ND 06151749); the Island of Stroma; and the adjacent areas of sea which extend seaward for three miles from mean low water springs, but excluding therefrom any area of sea already included within the area of another salmon fishery district.

SCHEDULE 2
Article 4


Column 1 Column 2
Description of part of Caithness Salmon Fishery District Period or periods for rod and line fishing (dates are inclusive)

(a) Forss
The catchment area of each river which flows into the sea between Geodh Eisgiadh (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference NC 91946537) and the most northerly point of Brims Ness (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference (ND 04107145); and the adjacent area of sea. 27th August to 31st October.

(b) Thurso and Stroma
The catchment area of each river which flows into the sea between Brims Ness aforesaid and the most north easterly point of Duncansby Head (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference ND 40577339); the Island of Stroma; and the adjacent areas of sea. 27th August to 5th October and 11th January to 10th February.

(c) Wick
The catchment area of each river which flows into the sea between Duncansby Head aforesaid and Stack of Ulbster (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference ND 33954159); and the adjacent area of sea. 27th August to 31st October.

(d) Dunbeath
The catchment area of each river which flows into the sea between Stack of Ulbster aforesaid and the point where a line drawn south-east from Dunbeath Castle intersects mean low water springs (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference ND 15802828); and the adjacent area of sea. 27th August to 15th October.

(e) Berriedale
The catchment area of each river which flows into the sea between the said point drawn south-east from Dunbeath Castle aforesaid and Ord Point (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference ND 06151749); and the adjacent area of sea. 27th August to 31st October.