Prohibition of keeping or release of specified fish or eggs3.
(1)
No person may, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Welsh Ministers, keep or release any live freshwater fish, or the live eggs of any freshwater fish, which—
(a)
belongs to a taxonomic order specified in the first column of the table in Part 1 of the Schedule; and
(b)
is not native to England and Wales.
(2)
The requirement for a licence in paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to any species of non-native fish that is specified in the third column of the table in Part 2 of the Schedule and belongs to a taxonomic order referred to in paragraph (1).