{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-or-release-of-live-fish-specified-species-amendment-wales-order-2003/schedule",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-or-release-of-live-fish-specified-species-amendment-wales-order-2003/schedule.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/416",
  "legislation_title": "The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-or-release-of-live-fish-specified-species-amendment-wales-order-2003",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "THE",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "“SCHEDULE\nSPECIES OF FISH WHOSE KEEPING OR RELEASE IN ANY PART OF WALES IS PROHIBITED EXCEPT UNDER AUTHORITY OF A LICENCE GRANTED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES\nCOMMON NAME\nSCIENTIFIC NAME\nAsp\nAspius aspius\nBarbel species\nspecies of the genus Barbus (excluding The native Barbus barbus)\nBass species (including striped bass, white bass and their crosses e.g. hybrid striped bass)\nspecies of the genus Morone\nBig-head carp\nAristicthys nobilis\nBitterling\nRhodeus sericeus/Rhodeus amarus\nBlacknose Dace\nRhinichthys atratulus\nBlageon\nLeuciscus souffia\nBlue Sucker\nCycleptus elongatus\nBlue bream\nAbramis ballerus\nBurbot\nLota lota\nCatfish\nspecies of the genera Ictalurus, Amerius and Silurus\nCharr species (including American Brook Trout)\nspecies of the genus Salvelinus (excluding the native alvelinusalpinus)\nChinese black or snail-eating carp\nMylopharyngodon piceus\nChinese Sucker (also known as Zebra Hi Fin, banded shark/sucker)\nMyxocyprinus asiaticus\nCommon White Sucker\nCatostomus commersoni\nDanubian bleak\nChalcalburnus chalcoides\nDanubian Salmon & Taimen\nspecies of the genus Hucho\nEastern Mudminnow\nUmbra pygmaea\nEuropean Mudminnow\nUmbra krameri\nFathead minnow (or Roseyreds)\nPimephales promelas\nFreshwater minnow, Dragon fish or Pale chub\nZaacco platypus\nGrass carp\nCtenopharyngodon idella\nLandlocked salmon\nnon-anadromous varieties of the species Salmo salar\nLarge-mouthed black bass\nMicropterus salmoides\nMarbled trout\nSalmo marmoratus\nNase\nChondrostoma nasus\nNorthern Redbelly Dace (common minnow)\nPhoxinus/Chrosomus eos\nPacific salmon and trout (excluding rainbow trout but including steelheads)\nSpecies of the genus Oncorhynchus\nPaddlefish\nspecies of the genera Polyodon and Psepherus\nPerch species\nspecies of the genus Perca (excluding the native Perca fluviatilis)\nPike-perch (including zander)\nspecies of the genus Stizostedion\nPike species\nspecies of the genus Esox (excluding the native Esox lucius)\nRed shiner\nCyprinella/Notropis lutrensis\nRock bass\nAmbloplites rupestris\nSchneider\nAlburnoides bipunctatus\nSilver carp\nHypophthalmichthys molitrix\nSnakeheads, Northern or Chinese\nChanna argus\nSmall mouth bass\nMicropterus dolomieu\nSouthern Redbelly Dace (common minnow)\nPhoxinus/Chrosomus ertythrogaster\nSturgeon or sterlet\nspecies of the genera Acipenser, Huso, Pseudoscaphirhynchus and Scaphirhynchus\nSunbleak (Sundace), also known as Belica or Motherless Minnow\nLeucaspius delineatus\nSunfish, including Pumpkinseed, (also basses crappies & bluegills)\nSpecies of the genus Lepomis\nTopmouth gudgeon\nPseudorasbora parva\nToxostome (or French nase)\nChondrostoma toxostoma\nVimba\nVimba vimba\nWeather fish\nMisgurnus fossilis\nWhitefish species\nspecies of the genus Coregonus (excluding the native Coregonus lavaretus and Coregonus albula)\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/416/schedule",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:11:52.464081+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."
}