Regulation 9 Resumption of salmon nettingI1
Northern Ireland
The Department may issue a bag net or tidal draft net licence for salmon fishing only if it decides that such fishing is not likely to have an adverse impact on:
a Special Area of Conservation as defined under F1the Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 ;
any rivers which are not meeting such salmon management targets as may be determined and published by the Department.
Where the Department so decides, then, subject to paragraph (3), first preference shall be given to a person who has held a bag net or tidal draft net licence for the purposes of salmon netting in any one of the 3 calendar years immediately preceding the coming into operation of these Regulations.
A person mentioned in paragraph (2) may by written notice given to the Department, nominate another person in his place.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in reg. 9(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/209), regs. 1(1), 4; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)