OYSTER FISHERY LEGISLATION. IOOy 



The by-laws are to be approved by the Board of Trade. 

 The committees may also impose penalties for breach of 

 their by-laws, and appoint fishery officers with power to 

 stop and search suspected vessels or vehicles within the 

 limits of the district. A meeting for consultation with the 

 Board of Trade, to which each cDmmittee may send at least 

 one member, is to be held annually. Special regulations 

 define the relations of the committee to boards of salmon 

 conservators and harbour authorities ; and they may not 

 pass by-laws prejudicially affecting any rights of several 

 fishery, any by-laws of salmon conservators, or any powers 

 of sanitary authorities mentioned above. 



In Ireland the Act 5 and 6 Vic. cap. i ob, prescribes that 

 no oysters may be taken between i st May and i st September, 

 though this close season has been varied by the Inspectors 

 of Fisheries in the following cases : 



Cork Harbour 2nd May to 3ist Aug. 



Tralee Bay nth Mar. to 3 ist Oct. 



Galway Bay ist Jan. to 30th Nov. 



Strangford Lough ist Mar. to 3 ist Aug. 



Wicklow Head to Carnsore Point .... ist May to 



3 ist Aug. 



Achil Sound, Clew Bay, and Blacksod Bay 



2nd April to joth Sept. 



Taking oysters from licensed beds is made larceny. 



By the Sea Fisheries Act of 1868, a close time for 

 oysters was imposed within the irregular parallelogram 

 comprising the English Channel, and defined by the 

 Land's End and the North Foreland at its angles on 

 the British side, and by Dunkirk and Ushant on the 

 French. The period (as previously stated) extends from 

 the 1 6th June to the 3 ist August, and during this time no 

 boats may carry an oyster dredge, unless it has been 



