{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-or-release-of-live-fish-specified-species-order-1998/schedule",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-or-release-of-live-fish-specified-species-order-1998/schedule.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2409",
  "legislation_title": "The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-or-release-of-live-fish-specified-species-order-1998",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "SPECIES OF FISH WHOSE KEEPING OR RELEASE IN ANY PART OF ENGLAND AND WALES IS PROHIBITED EXCEPT UNDER AUTHORITY OF A LICENCE GRANTED BY THE MINISTER",
  "text": "COMMON NAME\nSCIENTIFIC NAME\nAmerican brook trout\nSalvelinus fontinalis\nAsp\nAspius aspius\nBig-head carp\nAristicthys nobilis\nBitterling\nRhodeus sericeus\nBlageon\nLeuciscus souffia\nBlue bream\nAbramis ballerus\nBurbot\nLota lota\nCatfish\nspecies of the genera Ictalurus and Silurus\nChinese black or snail-eating carp\nMylopharyngodon piceus\nDanubian bleak\nChalcalburnus chalcoides\nGrass carp\nCtenopharyngodon idella\nLandlocked salmon\nnon-anadromous varieties of the species Salmo salar\nLarge-mouthed black bass\nMicropterus salmoides\nMediterranean barbel\nBarbus meridionalis\nNase\nChondrostoma nasus\nPacific salmon and trout (excluding rainbow trout but including steelheads)\nspecies of the genus Oncorhynchus\nPaddlefish\nspecies of the genera Polyodon and Psepherus\nPike-perch (including zander)\nspecies of the genus Stizostedion\nPumpkinseed\nLepomis gibbosus\nRock bass\nAmbloplites rupestris\nSchneider\nAlburnoides bipunctatus\nSilver carp\nHypophthalmichthys molitrix\nSturgeon or sterlet\nspecies of the genera Acipenser, Huso, Pseudoscaphirhynchus and Scaphirhynchus\nTopmouth gudgeon\nPseudorasbora parva\nToxostome (or French nase)\nChondrostoma toxostoma\nVimba\nVimba vimba",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/25",
      "affecting_title": "The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (Amendment) (England) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/416",
      "affecting_title": "The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2409/schedule",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:02.026726+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."
}