{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foyle-area-and-carlingford-area-tagging-and-logbook-regulations-2001/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foyle-area-and-carlingford-area-tagging-and-logbook-regulations-2001/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/159",
  "legislation_title": "Foyle Area and Carlingford Area (Tagging and Logbook) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foyle-area-and-carlingford-area-tagging-and-logbook-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Tagging of wild salmon and sea trout",
  "text": "(1) Any person, who is licensed under the Foyle Fisheries Act 1952 or the Foyle Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1952 to use a fishing engine to fish for wild salmon and sea trout who captures and retains a wild salmon or sea trout shall, in the manner set out in paragraphs (2) and (3), affix or cause to be affixed to it an appropriate gill tag\n(2) A gill tag shall be affixed to a wild salmon or sea trout by inserting it through the mouth of the fish to emerge from the gill opening and fully securing it using the locking mechanism so that it cannot be removed from the fish without tampering with the lock, breaking or cutting the tag or without cutting or tearing any part of the fish.\n(3) Any wild salmon or sea trout captured by—\n(a) a drift net shall be tagged, in accordance with paragraph (2), as soon as is practicable after capture, but before it is removed from the boat on which it was caught;\n(b) draft net, bag net, fixed tidal draft net, tidal draft net, salmon boxes, hand line or rod and line shall be tagged in accordance with paragraph (2) immediately on landing the fish.\n(4) In this regulation “an appropriate gill tag” means —\n(a) in a case where the wild salmon or sea trout was captured by rod and line, during the period 1st March to 31st May both dates inclusive, a blue gill tag;\n(b) in a case where the wild salmon or sea trout was captured by rod and line, during the period 1st June to 31st October both dates inclusive, a black gill tag.\nAnd which, in each case, meets the requirements set out in paragraph (5).\n(5) The requirements mentioned in paragraph (4) are that—\n(a) the gill tag has the current calendar year marked on it;\n(b) the gill tag has the letters “FFA” marked on it;\n(c) the gill tag bears a tag number entered in a logbook issued under these Regulations to the holder of the fishing licence by whom or whose behalf the salmon or sea trout was captured;\n(d) the gill tag shall not be damaged or altered in any respect; and\n(e) the details marked on the gill tag shall be legible.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(4) substituted (9.5.2007) by Foyle Area and Carlingford Area (Tagging and Logbook) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.R. 2007/278), regs. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 14.5.2001, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/159/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:53.137656+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."
}