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The Regulations of the Local Sea Fisheries 

 Committees in England and Wales. 



By 

 E, J. Allen, B.Sc, Director of the Plymouth Laboratory. 



The powers conferred on the Board of Trade, under the Sea Fisheries 

 Eegulation Act of 1888, to create, upon the application of a County or 

 Borough Council, a local Fisheries District, and to provide for the con- 

 stitution of a Local Fisheries Committee for the regulation of the sea 

 fisheries carried on within the district, have been requisitioned by the 

 majority of the Councils of the maritime counties of England and 

 Wales, and at the present time Fisheries Districts and Fisheries 

 Committees are constituted around nearly the whole coast line, the 

 Committees having jurisdiction over all fishing carried on within 

 the three-mile limit. The only portion of coast still unprovided for 

 is that which lies in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, between 

 Happisburg and Dovercourt. 



The following is a list of the Fisheries Districts, with their boundaries, 

 as they now exist : — 



Northumberland — from the boundary between England and Scot- 

 land to the river Tyne. 



North-eastern — from the river Tyne to Donna Nook Beacon, on 

 the coast of Lincolnshire. 



Eastern — from Donna Nook Beacon to Happisburg, on the coast 



of Norfolk. 

 Between Happisburg in Norfolk and Dovercourt in Essex no Fisheries 

 District has been established. 



Kent and Essex — from Dovercourt in Essex to Dungeness. 

 Sussex — from Dungeness to Hayling Island. 



Southern— from Hayling Island to the western boundary of 

 Dorset. 



