The Loch Awe and Associated Waters Protection Order 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/771
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Loch Awe and Associated Waters Protection Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st May 1992.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“freshwater fish” has the same meaning as in section 24(1) of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951 ;

“the map” means the map marked “Area of the Loch Awe and Associated Waters Protection Order 1992”, signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for Scotland and deposited in the office of the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department, Pentland House, Robb’s Loan, Edinburgh.

Section 3 Prohibition of fishing without legal right or written permission

Fishing for or taking freshwater fish in the inland waters in the area prescribed in article 4 hereof, without legal right or without written permission from a person having such a right, is hereby prohibited.

Section 4 Prescribed area

The prescribed area, which lies in Strathclyde Region, shall consist of—

(a) that part of the catchment area of Loch Awe that is bounded as follows:—

on or towards the east, by the road B840 from Ford Hotel in a north-easterly direction to its junction with the road A819 at Cladich and from that junction by the road A819 in a north-easterly direction to its junction with the road A85; on or towards the north, by the road A85 from its junction with the A819 in a westerly direction to the point where it passes the Loch Awe Barrage; on or towards the west, by the Loch Awe Barrage and from that Barrage by the shoreline of the loch in a south-easterly direction to Tervine Farm and from that farm by the metalled road in a south-westerly direction to the point of beginning at Ford Hotel; and

(b) the catchment area of the River Avich upstream of the road bridge which crosses that river at Barnaline Lodge

and is delineated by a continuous blue line on the map.