
1 
These Byelaws may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2006.
2 
The Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003  shall be amended as provided in Byelaws 3 to 5.
3 
For Schedule 3 (FISHING ENGINES AND LICENCE DUTIES) there shall be substituted the following Schedule:“
SCHEDULE 3
Byelaws 6, 7 and 10
PART I

Fishing Licence Duty
(1) (2)
Season game fishing rod licence £16.00
Fourteen day game fishing rod licence £8.00
Three day game fishing rod licence £3.50
Concessionary season fishing rod licence £5.00
Juvenile season fishing rod licence £2.00
Amount payable by the holder of a current Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights game fishing rod and line licence for a game fishing rod licence £1.00
Season coarse fishing rod licence £16.00
Fourteen day coarse fishing rod licence £8.00
Three day coarse fishing rod licence for use by the holder of a three day coarse fishing permit issued by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure to fish in waters in which the Department has the fishing rights £3.50
PART II

Fishing Licence Duty
(1) (2)
Licence for a draft net for the capture of salmon and freshwater fish on Lough Neagh £117.00
Licence for a single wall set net or trammel net for the capture of trout or rainbow trout in Lough Neagh per 91 metres (100 yards) £16.00
Licence for a single wall set net or trammel net for the taking of freshwater fish other than trout or rainbow trout, per 91 metres (100 yards) £16.00
Licence for a bait net for the taking of freshwater fish other than trout or rainbow trout for use as bait – per net £5.00
Licence for a fixed tidal draft net £370.50
Licence for a tidal draft net £307.00
Drift net licence for the taking of salmon in the sea £307.00
Licence for a bag net used in tidal waters £694.00
PART III
Dealer’s licence £45.50”
4 
In Schedule 6 in the list of rainbow trout waters where there is no annual close season for angling for rainbow trout —
(a) under the heading County Antrim there shall be inserted after the reference to “Turnagrove Fishery” a reference to “Upper Pond, The Waterworks, Cavehill Road, Belfast”;
(b) under the heading County Down there shall be inserted after the reference to “Hazelwood Rainbow Trout Fishery” a reference to “High Dam, Newtownards”; and
(c) under the heading County Down the reference to “Lough Cowey” shall be removed.
5 
For Byelaw 81 there shall be substituted the following Byelaw —“
81. 

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not, on Lough Neagh —
(a) take any coarse fish except pollen with a fishing engine, other than rod and line, during the period beginning on 1st March in any year and ending on 31st May in the same year, both dates inclusive; or
(b) take any coarse fish with a fishing engine, other than rod and line during the period commencing at 6 o'clock a.m. on any Saturday and ending 6 o'clock a.m. on the next following Monday.
(2) Paragraph (1) (a) shall not apply to the taking of coarse fish by means of a bait net by the holder of a licence for a long line for the taking of eels where such fish are for use solely as bait.”
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Fisheries Conservancy Board on 7th December 2005.
Dr. R. Hanna
Chairman
K. A. Simpson (Mrs)
Secretary
The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure hereby approves the foregoing Byelaws.Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on 7th December 2005.
M. Cory
A senior officer of the
Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure
