09/01/1942: FISHERY

BY-LAW No. 447. No. 4 or LISMORE DISTRICT.

BY-LAW No. 447. No. 4 or LISMORE DISTRICT.

BALLYCOTTIN BAY.

Trammel Netting.

I, SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers now exercisable by me under the Fisheries Acts, 1842 to 1939, and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby make the following By-Law, that is to say :--

(1) This By-Law may be cited as the Ballycottin Bay Trammel Netting By-Law, No. 447, 1942.

(2) This By-Law shall come into operation on the 1st day of February, 1942.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this By-Law.

(4) It is hereby prohibited to use in Ballycottin Bay, County Cork, inside or landward of imaginary straight lines drawn from Ballycottin Lighthouse to the nearest point on the mainland, and from the said Lighthouse to the old telegraph tower on Knockadoon Head, or in any part of the sea within a distance of half a mile measured from low water mark on the shore of Ballycottin Outer Island--

(a) any trammel net of a greater depth than eighteen feet, measured from the cork rope to the foot rope or lower edge when the net is mounted for fishing, or

(b) any trammel net the foot rope or lower edge of which is not so weighted that at all times at which the net is being fished the entire length of the foot rope or lower edge rests on the sea bottom.

(5) Each and every person offending against this By-Law shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding Five Pounds and any net used contrary to this By-Law shall be forfeited.

Given under my Official Seal this 9th day of January, 1942.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.

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