OK, so this is the ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) fishing areas that include UK territorial waters and these are the regulations for recreational fisheries:
In ICES Areas IVb, IVc, VIIa, VIId, VIIe, VIIf, VIIg, VIIh from 1 January to 30 June
2016 catch and release only permitted, from 1 July to 31 December
2016 one bass per fisherman per day.
In ICES areas VIIj and VIIk from 1 January to 31 December
2016 one bass per fisherman per day.
I've highlighted 2016 as I guess no-one has clocked we've moved on a year. Now looking at the map and the information I have found someone please tell me that I haven't lost it and most of Scotland is somehow
not covered by this legislation..... according to the best information I can get out of the web