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The Regulations of the Local Sea Fisheries Committees in England and Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

E. J. Allen
E. J. Allen
Affiliation:
Director of the Plymouth Laboratory.
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The powers conferred on the Board of Trade, under the Sea Fisheries Regulation Act of 1888, to create, upon the application of a County or Borough Council, a local Fisheries District, and to provide for the constitution of a Local Fisheries Committee for the regulation of the sea fisheries carried on within the district, have been requisitioned by the majority of the Councils of the maritime counties of England and Wales, and at the present time Fisheries Districts and Fisheries Committees are constituted around nearly the whole coast line, the Committees having jurisdiction over all fishing carried on within the three-mile limit. The only portion of coast still unprovided for is that which lies in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, between Happisburg and Dovercourt.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , March 1897 , pp. 386 - 395
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1897

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References

* “That portion of the said district which lies to the westward of a line drawn true north-east from the lightship known as the ‘Lynn Well Light,’ and to the northward of a straight line drawn from Gibraltar Point to Gore Point.”

† “That portion of the said district which lies between a line drawn true north-north-east from the building standing upon Salthouse Beach, known as Randall's Folly (or the Sailor's Refuge), and a line drawn true north-east from Cromer Lighthouse.”

‡ “No person shall use any trawl net for taking sea fish, other than shrimps or prawns, having a mesh through which a square gauge of 11/2 inches measured across each side of the square, or 6 inches measured round the four sides, will not pass without pressure when the net is wet.”

* “No person shall use any net for taking shrimps or prawns having a mesh through which a square gauge of three-eighths of an inch measured across each side of the square, or 11/2 inches measured round the four sides, will not pass without pressure when the net is wet.”

* In this connection particular notice should be taken of the fact that we are not considering any bye-laws applicable to estuaries under the jurisdiction of Boards of Salmon Conservators.

* There is also a restriction as to the nature of the material of which the net is made.

* Bye-law 20. No person shall fish for cockles except—

(a) By hand, or

(b) With an instrument locally known as a craam, having not more than three teeth: provided that—

(1) Between the 1st day of November and the last day of February following, both inclusive, it shall be lawful to use an instrument locally known as the jumbo, not exceeding 4 feet 6 inches in length, 14 inches in width, and 1 inch in thickness, provided that such instrument shall be constructed entirely of wood, and shall not be dragged across the cockle beds or artificially weighted.

(2) In that part of the district which lies to the southward of a line drawn true west from the mark known as “Rossall Landmark,” near Fleetwood, it shall be lawful to use a rake not exceeding 12 inches in width.

(3) In that part of the district which lies between a straight line drawn seawards through the north-west sea marks near Formby Point, and a line drawn true west from the western extremity of the southern training wall in the river Ribble or Gut Channel, it shall be lawful to use a spade.