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owners of small seans meet with from tlie larger men 

 causes much complaint. Additional nets are not so 

 much used on the south coast as at St. Ives, and the 

 takes of fish by them are rarely so large as those on 

 the northern shore. 



Drift-fishing is largely carried on all round the coast, 

 and is in great favour, the produce for the most part 

 being taken for home consumption, whilst that of the 

 large seans, belonging generally to wealthy proprietors, 

 is cured for exportation. 



Interference by the drift-boats with the proper work- 

 ing of the seans when the fish are very near the land 

 was such a frequent cause of complaint tliat some re- 

 strictions were thought desirable by the Government 

 wlien framing the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868; and the 

 following regulations are now in force : — 



31 cf 32 Vict., cap. 45, sect. 68. 



"On the coast of Cornwall, except so mucli of the 

 north coast as lies east of Trevose Head, no person 

 between the twenty-fifth of July and the twenty-fifth 

 of November in any year — 



" (a) shall, from sunrise to sunset, within the dis- 

 tance of two miles from the coast, measured from 

 low-water mark (whether in bays or not), use a 

 drift-net or trawl-net ; or {b) shall, within half a 

 mile of any sea-fishing boat stationed for seine- 

 fishing, anchor any sea-fishing or other boat (not 

 being a boat engaged in seine-fishing), or lay, set, 

 or use any net, boulter, or implement of sea fishing 

 (except for the purpose of seine-fishing) ; 

 " Any person who acts in contravention of this sec- 

 tion shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty 

 not exceeding twenty pounds." 



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