30/12/1938: Fishery By-Law No. 435 No. 17¹ Or Drogheda District.


DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.(FISHERIES BRANCH). FISHERIES ACTS, 1842 TO 1937.

I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Fisheries Act, 1925 , the Fisheries (Re-distribution of Public Services) Order, 1934, and of every other power enabling me in this behalf, DO MAKE AND ORDAIN THE FOLLOWING BY-LAW:—

(1) It shall not be lawful—

(a) to have any net for the capture of salmon or trout during the period commencing at the hour of 7 a.m. on Saturday and ending at the hour of 5 a.m. on the next following Monday within 200 yards of that part of the tidal waters of the No. 171 or Drogheda District situated to the EASTWARD of a straight line drawn across the River Boyne in a southerly direction from the centre of the arch in Beaulieu Bridge in the townland of Beaulieu in the County of Louth unless such net is hung on poles in accordance with the established practice in the said District, or

(b) to have any such net during the period mentioned in (a) above on board any boat, cot, curragh or other vessel in the said part of the said tidal waters, or

(c) to have any such net during the period commencing at the hour of 8 a.m. on Saturday and ending at the hour of 4 a.m. on the next following Monday within 200 yards of that part of the tidal waters of the said District situated to the WESTWARD of a straight line drawn in the manner indicated in (a) above, unless such net is hung on poles as specified in (a) above, or

(d) to have any such net during the period mentioned in (c) above on board any boat, cot, curragh or other vessel in that part of the said tidal waters named in (c) above.

(2) 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 found contrary to this By-Law shall be forfeited.

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

(4) This By-Law may be cited for all purposes as the Drogheda District By-Law No. 435 of 1938.

Given under my Seal of Office this 30th day of December, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-eight.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.