These Byelaws amend the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997 by: (a) prohibiting the Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland to issue a drift net licence in specified circumstances (Byelaw 4); (b) reducing the maximum number of tidal draft net licences which may be issued in any calendar year from 6 to 2 (Byelaw 5); (c) by requiring the Board to revoke a fishing licence or to refuse to renew a fishing licence where, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department