Schedule 25, paragraph 6(2)

..., the appropriate agency shall have power, in relation to the whole or any part or parts of the area mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above, to make byelaws for any of the following purposes, that is to say— prohibiting the taking or removal from any water, without lawful authority, of any fish to which this paragraph applies, whether alive or dead; prohibiting or regulating— the taking of any fish to which this paragraph applies of a size greater or less than such as may be prescribed by the byelaw; or the taking of fish to which this paragraph applies by any means within such distance as is specified in the byelaw above or below any dam or any other obstruction, whether artificial or natural; prohibiting the use for taking fish to which this paragraph applies of any instrument ... in such waters and at such times as may be prescribed by the byelaws; specifying the nets and other instruments ... which may be used for taking fish to which this paragraph applies, imposing requirements as to the use of such nets and other instruments and regulating the use, in connection with fishing with rod and line, of any lure or bait specified in the byelaw; authorising the placing and use of fixed engines at such places, at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by the byelaws; (including requiring fixed engines during close seasons or times to be removed or made incapable of taking or obstructing the passage of fish) imposing requirements as to the construction, design, material and dimensions of any such nets, instruments or engines as are mentioned in paragraphs (d) and (e) above, including in the case of nets the size of mesh; requiring and regulating the attachment to ... nets and instruments of marks, labels or numbers, or the painting of marks or numbers or the affixing of labels or numbers to boats, coracles or other vessels used in fishing; prohibiting the carrying in any boat or vessel whilst being used in fishing for fish to which this paragraph applies of any net which may not lawfully be used, or which is without the mark, label or number prescribed by the byelaws; and prohibiting or regulating the carrying in a boat or vessel during any close season or time for any description of fish to which this paragraph applies of a net capable of taking fish of that description, other than a net commonly used in the area to which the byelaw applies for sea fishing and carried in a boat or vessel commonly used for that purpose. specifying close seasons or times for the taking of any fish to which this paragraph applies by such means as may be prescribed by the byelaws;

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30