14/12/1931: Fishery By-Law No. 413. No. 17¹ Or Drogheda District.

DRAFT NETS—SALMON AND TROUT.

I, FIONÁN Ó LOINGSIGH, Minister for Lands and Fisheries, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Fisheries Act, 1925 , and of every other power enabling me in this behalf, DO MAKE AND ORDAIN THE FOLLOWING BY-LAW :—

(1) It is hereby prohibited to use any draft net of greater length than seventy-five yards for the capture of salmon or trout in the tidal waters of the 17¹ or Drogheda District to the Northward of Ben Head in the County of Meath.

(2) It is hereby prohibited to use any draft net of greater length than one hundred yards for the capture of salmon or trout in the tidal waters of the 17¹ or Drogheda District to the Southward of Ben Head in the County of Meath.

(3) It is hereby permitted to use draft nets with meshes of not less than one-and-one-half inches from knot to knot, or six inches in the round, to be measured in the clear when the net is wet, for the capture of salmon or trout in the tidal waters of the 17¹ or Drogheda District to the Southward of Ben Head in the County of Meath, anything to the contrary in the Drogheda District By-Law No. 408, 1931, notwithstanding.

(4) Each and every person offending against this By-Law shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and every net used contrary thereto shall be forfeited.

(5) The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of this By-Law in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

(6) This By-Law may be cited for all purposes as the Drogheda District By-law No. 413, 1931.

(7) The By-law by which it was prohibited to use, for the capture of salmon or trout in the tidal parts of the River Boyne, any draft net of greater length than seventy-five yards, made on the 9th day of December, 1896, is hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office, this 14th day of December, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-one.

(Signed) FIONÁN Ó LOINGSIGH,

Minister for Lands and Fisheries.

NOTE A.—Under the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1925 , this By-law will come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the above date.

NOTE B.—The Fisheries Act, 1925 , provides that any person aggrieved by this By-law, may, within one fortnight after the date of this publication, appeal against the same in accordance with Order XXVII of the Rules of the High Court and Supreme Court.