HC Deb 15 January 1997 vol 288 c258W
Mr. John D. Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if Carrickmannon lake in Saintfield, Co. Down, is classed as a designated water; and who owns the fishing rights. [10801]

Mr. Ancram

Carrickmannon lake is designated as a rainbow trout water under the Fisheries Consolidated and Amendment Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1989. The Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland has no information on the ownership of fishing rights in this water, but it is operated a private sector put-and-take rainbow trout fishery by Dr. D. McVeigh.