1998 No. 2409
The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) Order 1998
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in relation to England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1(1) of the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 19801 and all other powers enabling them in that behalf; and, in accordance with section 1(2) of the Act, after consultation with the Nature Conservancy Council for England and the Countryside Council for Wales and such other persons as the Minister and the Secretary of State consider appropriate; and being of the opinion that the species of live fish to which this Order applies might compete with, displace, prey on or harm the habitat of any freshwater fish, shellfish or salmon in England and Wales, hereby make the following Order:
Citation, commencement and extent1
1
This Order may be cited as the Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) Order 1998 and shall extend to England and Wales.
2
This Order shall come into force–
a
in relation to fish first kept before 1st November 1998, on 1st May 1999; and
b
in relation to fish first kept or released on or after 1st November 1998, on that date.
Prohibition of keeping or release of specified fish2
No person shall keep or release in any part of England and Wales any live fish of the species specified in the Schedule to this Order, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Minister.
SCHEDULESPECIES OF FISH WHOSE KEEPING OR RELEASE IN ANY PART OF ENGLAND AND WALES IS PROHIBITED EXCEPT UNDER AUTHORITY OF A LICENCE GRANTED BY THE MINISTER
COMMON NAME | SCIENTIFIC NAME |
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American brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis |
Asp | Aspius aspius |
Big-head carp | Aristicthys nobilis |
Bitterling | Rhodeus sericeus |
Blageon | Leuciscus souffia |
Blue bream | Abramis ballerus |
Burbot | Lota lota |
Catfish | species of the genera Ictalurus and Silurus |
Chinese black or snail-eating carp | Mylopharyngodon piceus |
Danubian bleak | Chalcalburnus chalcoides |
Grass carp | Ctenopharyngodon idella |
Landlocked salmon | non-anadromous varieties of the species Salmo salar |
Large-mouthed black bass | Micropterus salmoides |
Mediterranean barbel | Barbus meridionalis |
Nase | Chondrostoma nasus |
Pacific salmon and trout (excluding rainbow trout but including steelheads) | species of the genus Oncorhynchus |
Paddlefish | species of the genera Polyodon and Psepherus |
Pike-perch (including zander) | species of the genus Stizostedion |
Pumpkinseed | Lepomis gibbosus |
Rock bass | Ambloplites rupestris |
Schneider | Alburnoides bipunctatus |
Silver carp | Hypophthalmichthys molitrix |
Sturgeon or sterlet | species of the genera Acipenser, Huso, Pseudoscaphirhynchus and Scaphirhynchus |
Topmouth gudgeon | Pseudorasbora parva |
Toxostome (or French nase) | Chondrostoma toxostoma |
Vimba | Vimba vimba |
(This note is not part of the Order)