Foyle and Carlingford Fisheries Act 2007

Use of certain devices to take fish.

16.— Section 43 of the Act of 1952 is amended—

(a) by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:

“(1) If, for the purpose of taking or facilitating the taking of any fish, any person uses or has in his possession or control, in any river or on or near the banks thereof—

(a) any light or fire, or

(b) any electrical or acoustical apparatus of any kind,

he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.”,

(b) in subsection (3) by the deletion of “gaff or” in paragraphs (a) and (b),

(c) by the insertion after subsection (3) of the following subsection:

“(3A) If any person throws, releases or discharges any missile or other object into any water for the purpose of taking or killing, or facilitating the taking or killing, of any fish, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.”,

and

(d) by the insertion after subsection (4) of the following subsection:

“(5) In this section—

‘ gaff ’ means a hooked instrument (with or without a barb) used to penetrate the gills or body of a fish; and

‘ otter ’ means an otter lath or jack, and includes any instrument, whether used with a handline, or as an auxiliary to a rod and line, or otherwise for the purpose of running out lures, artificial or otherwise.”.