Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959

Penalty for use of trawl or trammel nets in contravention of bye-laws.

239.—(1) If any person uses any trawl or trammel net at any season or any place, either in the sea or within the tideway of any estuary, when or where the use of it is prohibited by any bye-law made under this Act, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, any net in respect of which the offence was committed shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.