Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

"Iris Oifigiúil" of 6th January, 2015.

I, JOE MCHUGH, Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 69 and 78(3)(a)(v) of the Inland Fisheries Act 2010 (No. 10 of 2010) and the Energy and Natural Resources (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014 ( S.I. No. 585 of 2014 ) after consultation with Inland Fisheries Ireland, hereby make the following regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014.

(2) These Regulations come into operation on 1 January 2015.

2. The Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme Regulations 2013 ( S.I. No. 573 of 2013 ) are amended-

(a) in Regulation 5, by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (1):

"(1) In addition to the tagging requirements contained in Regulation 3, where a person lawfully catches and retains a wild salmon or sea trout by rod and line-

(a) from 1 January to 30 September in any year, in respect of a river mentioned in column (2) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 that opens on or after 1 January in accordance with bye-laws, or

(b) from 1 January to 11 May in any year, in respect of a river mentioned in column (2) of Part 2 of Schedule 4 that opens on or after 1 January in accordance with bye-laws,

he or she shall attach to the fish in accordance with this Regulation a brown tag issued to him or her under Regulation 6.",

(b) in Regulation 7(1), by the substitution of "a river mentioned in Part 1 and Part 2 of Schedule 4" for "a river mentioned in Schedule 4",

(c) in Regulation 8(1), by the substitution of "a river mentioned in column (2) of Part 1 and column (2) of Part 2 of Schedule 4 opposite mention, in column (1) of Part 1 and column (1) of Part 2, as the case may be, of that Schedule" for "a river mentioned in column (2) of Schedule 4 opposite mention, in column (1) of that Schedule",

(d) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 2:

Schedule 2

Regulations 3(7), 4(8), 10, 11 and 22

Rivers

Total Allowable Catch

",

and

(e) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 4:

Schedule 4

Regulations 5, 7 and 8

Fishery districts and rivers to which brown tags apply

Part 1

Part 2

GIVEN under my hand,

22 December 2014.

JOE MCHUGH,

Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

These regulations provide for, the quotas of fish that can be harvested by commercial fishing engines and rod and line from those rivers identified in Schedule 2. The Regulations also provide for the use of brown tags in specified rivers which are identified in Schedule 4.

1In the event that draft net fishing takes place in the common estuary, the combined total allowable catch of the rivers Caragh, Laune and Maine contributing to the fishery is reduced to reflect the higher risk associated with meeting the individual river conservation limits simultaneously

2In the event that draft net fishing takes place in the common estuary, the combined total allowable catch of the rivers Erriff and Bundorragha contributing to the fishery is reduced to reflect the higher risk associated with meeting the individual river conservation limits simultaneously. MSW surplus for Bundorragha is not to be added to the 1SW surplus for the purposes of calculating common embayment surplus.