
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (Amendment) (England) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 3rd February 2003.
(2) This Order applies in relation to England only.
2 
The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) Order 1998 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—“
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)”
Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
9th January 2003