Explanatory note

This Order creates a new salmon fishery district by amalgamating the former districts of the River Bervie, the River North Esk and the River South Esk which are abolished. Regulation 3 provides for the retention of regulations relating to the due observance of the weekly close time and to the meshes of nets (matters specified in section 6(6) of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1862) which applied in the superseded districts. These will apply in the same way in the new district. The Order makes different provision for the annual close times and periods when rod and line angling only is permitted in (a) the former district of the River Bervie, and (b) the former districts of the River North Esk and the River South Esk.