{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foyle-area-and-carlingford-area-angling-amendment-regulations-2012/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foyle-area-and-carlingford-area-angling-amendment-regulations-2012/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/458",
  "legislation_title": "The Foyle Area and Carlingford Area (Angling) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foyle-area-and-carlingford-area-angling-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese regulations amend the Foyle Area and Carlingford Area (Angling) Regulations 2001 by:\n(a) permitting the use of bubble and fly method on specified Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure waters;\n(b) increasing the minimum gape of hook permitted for use while angling for salmon, sea trout or brown trout from 7 mm to 12 mm in the specified stretches of the Rivers Finn and Foyle;\n(c) prohibiting the use or attempted use of matter of vegetable origin or maggots as a bait while angling on specified Department of Culture Arts and Leisure waters;\n(d) providing that on any one day only 4 fish, being either brown trout or rainbow trout, or a combination of both, may be taken by rod and line and retained on specified Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure waters;\n(e) increasing the minimum gape of hook permitted for use while angling for salmon, sea trout or brown trout from 7 mm to 12 mm in any other waters to which restrictions to angling to catch and release applies;\n(f) permitting fly fishing only on Lough Brickland; and\n(g) extending the restriction of angling to catch and release to the remainder of the River Foyle.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/458/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:12:33.357710+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}