1006 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



class. The exceptional enactments affecting St. Ives' Bay 

 must not be considered as in protection of a spawning place 

 of fish, but only as regulating the use of a resort of 

 pilchards. 



From these considerations the threefold division of 

 spawning fields into i, Spawning grounds ; 2, Spawning 

 places ; and 3, Spawning beds is reached. (/) 



The Sea Fisheries Regulation Act, 1888, (5; and 52 

 Vic., c. 54), will, it is hoped, prove of great advantage to 

 the fisheries of all kinds. It enacts that the Board of Trade 

 may, on the application of a county or borough council (or 

 if they refuse to apply, on the direct application of twenty 

 rate-payers) create a " sea fisheries district" and provide 

 for the constitution of a " local fisheries committee ' for 

 the regulation of the sea fisheries carried on within the 

 district. Due notice of the proposal is to be given before- 

 hand, and an inquiry, if necessary, to be held on the spot. 

 The "local fisheries committee" is to be a committee of the 

 county council, or the borough council, or a joint committee 

 of both, "with the addition in each case of such members 

 representing the fishing interests of the district." The com- 

 mittee is empowered to make by-laws regulatingthe methods 

 and instruments for fishing, for creating a district of oyster 

 cultivation, "prohibiting or regulating the deposit or dis- 

 charge of any solid or liquid substance detrimental to sea 

 fish or sea fishing" but not "affecting any power of a 

 sanitary or other local authority to discharge sewage in 

 pursuance of any power given by a general or local Act of 

 Parliament, or by a Provisional Order confirmed by 

 Parliament." 



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(/) Relation of the State with Fishermen and Fisheries, &c. By 

 F. J. Talfourd Chater. 



