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).