Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 2003

11Fishing in waters where fishing rights owned by one person

(1)Any person who without legal right, or without permission from a person having such right, fishes in a proper stank or loch shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.

(2)For the purposes of this section—

  • proper stank or loch” means a stank or loch the fishing rights in which are owned by one person; and

  • stank” means a reservoir or pond with neither inlet nor outlet sufficient to allow access or egress by fish.