FISH (INCLUDING LIVE EGGS) WHOSE KEEPING OR RELEASE IN SCOTLAND IS PROHIBITED 

Scottish Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 560 The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live  Fish (Specified species) (Scotland) Order 2003    SCHEDULE 1   Article 3  

Common name

Scientific name

Asp

Aspius aspius

Barbel

Barbus species (excluding the native Barbus barbus)

Bass (including Striped Bass, White Bass and their crosses e.g. Hybrid Striped Bass)

Morone species 

Bighead Carp

Hypophthalmichthys nobilis

Bitterling

Rhodeus sericeus/Rhodeus amarus

Blacknose Dace

Rhinichthys atratulus

Blageon

Leuciscus souffia

Blue bream

Abramis ballerus

Blue Sucker

Cycleptus elongatus

Burbot

Lota lota

Catfish

Ictalurus, Ameiurus and Silurus species

Char

Salvelinus species (excluding the native Salvelinus alpinus)

Chinese Black or Snail-eating Carp

Myopharyngodon piceus

Chinese Sucker, Zebra Hi Fin, Banded Shark, Banded Sucker

Myxocyprinus asiaticus

Common White Sucker

Catostomus commersoni

Danubian Bleak

Chalcalburnus chalcoides

Danubian Salmon & Taimen

Hucho species

Eastern Mudminnow

Umbra pygmaea

European Mudminnow

Umbra krameri

Fathead Minnow or Roseyreds

Pimephales promelas

Freshwater Minnow, Dragon Fish or Pale Chub

Zacco platypus

Grass Carp

Ctenopharyngodon idella

Landlocked Salmon

Non migratory varieties of the species Salmo salar

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

Marbled Trout

Salmo marmoratus

Nase

Chondrostoma nasus

Northern Redbelly Dace or Common Minnow

Phoxinus/Chrosomus eos

Pacific Salmon and Pacific  Trout

Oncorhynchus species (excluding Oncorhynchus mykiss and Oncorhynchus kisutch)

Paddlefish

Polyodon and Psephurus species

Perch

Perca species (excluding the native Perca fluviatilis)

Pike

Esox species (excluding the native Esox lucius)

Red Shiner

Cyprinella/Notropis lutrensis

Rock Bass

Ambloplites rupestris

Ruffe

Gymnocephalus cernuus

Schneider

Alburnoides bipunctatus

Silver Carp

Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

Small Mouth Bass

Micropterus dolomieu

Snakehead

Channa species

Southern Redbelly Dace or Common Minnow

Phoxinus/Chrosomus erythrogaster

Sturgeon or Sterlet

Acipenser, Huso, Pseudoscaphirhynchus and Scaphirhynchus species

Sunbleak, Sundace, Belica or Motherless Minnow

Leucaspius delineatus

Sunfish, Pumpkinseed, Basses, Crapies or Bluegills

Lepomis species

Topmouth gudgeon

Pseudorasbora parva

Toxostome or French Nase

Chondrostoma toxostoma

Vimba

Vimba vimba

Weatherfish

Misgurnus fossilis

Whitefish

Coregonus species (excluding the native Coregonus lavaretus and Coregonus albula)

SCHEDULE 2
Article 3

SPECIES OF FISH (INCLUDING LIVE EGGS) WHOSE KEEPING OR RELEASE IN SCOTLAND IS PROHIBITED EXCEPT UNDER AUTHORITY OF A LICENCE GRANTED BY THE SCOTTISH MINISTERS

Common name

Scientific name

Coho Salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch

Crayfish

Freshwater decapod crustaceans of the Families Astacidae, Cambaridae or Parastacidae, (excluding Austropotamobius pallipes)

Pikeperch

Stizostedion lucioperca 

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