Explanatory note

In relation to the annual close time of the River Dee (Aberdeenshire) salmon fishery district (27th August to 10th February) this Order prescribes the period from 27th August to 31st October as the period during which fishing for salmon by rod and line is permitted in that part of the district comprising the River Carron, the River Cowie (other than the part from the river’s source to the downstream side of the Swanley Road Bridge) and part of Stonehaven Bay. For the remaining part of the district the period during which such rod and line fishing is permitted in the annual close time continues to be from 27th August to 30th September, by virtue of the provisions referred to in section 6(2)(b) of the Salmon Act 1986.