13/09/1945: By-Law No. 456. Galway and Mayo.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (FISHERIES BRANCH). (FISHERIES ACTS, 1842 TO 1944). ___________________________

BY-LAW No. 456. GALWAY AND MAYO.

Escallop Fisheries.

I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers now exercisable by me under the Fisheries Acts, 1842 to 1944, 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 Galway and Mayo Escallop By-Law No. 456, 1945.

2. This By-Law shall come into operation on 15th November, 1945.

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

4. By-Laws dated 30th January, 1914, governing the taking of escallops off the coast of County Galway are hereby revoked.

5. It is prohibited from the first day of June to the fourteenth day of November in every year, both said days inclusive, to take any escallop from that part of the sea off the coast of the counties of Galway and Mayo lying between Cloghmore Point, near Cashla Bay, in the Townland of Cloghmore South and County of Galway, and Achill Head in the County of Mayo, including that portion of Achill Sound south of the bridge joining Achill Island to the mainland.

6. All persons engaged in fishing for or taking escallops in or from that part of the sea off the coast of the counties of Galway and Mayo lying between Cloghmore Point, near Cashla Bay, in the Townland of Cloghmore South and County of Galway, and Achill Head in the County of Mayo, including that portion of Achill Sound south of the bridge joining Achill Island with the mainland, shall cull all such escallops as may be taken or caught ; and shall not take away therefrom any escallop of less dimensions than four and a quarter inches at the greatest diameter thereof, but shall immediately throw back into the water all escallops of less dimensions than aforesaid, as well as all gravel and fragments of shells as shall be raised or taken while engaged in such fishing ; and no persons shall sell, expose for sale, give, transfer, or purchase, receive, carry, or have in his or her custody or possession any escallop of less dimensions than four and a quarter inches at the greatest diameter thereof so taken from that part of the sea off the coast of the counties of Galway and Mayo as aforementioned.

7. Each and every person offending against this By-Law shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding Five Pounds.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 13th day of September, 1945.

SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.

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