REGULATIONS OF THE LOCAL SEA FISHERIES COMMITTEES. 387 



Devon — Southern section, from eastern boundary of Devon to Eame 

 Head in Cornwall. Northern section, from eastern to western 

 boundary of Devon. 



Cornwall — from northern boundary of Cornwall to Eame Head. 



Glamorgan — from Nash Point to Worms Head. 



MiLFORD Haven — from Worms Head to Cemmaes Head in Pembroke. 



Western — from Cemmaes Head to the boundary between Carnarvon 

 and Denbigh. 



Lancashire — from the boundary between Carnarvon and Denbigh 

 to Haverigg Point in Lancashire. 



Cumberland — from Haverigg Point to Sark Foot. 



The powers of the Local Fisheries Committees, as extended by 

 subsequent Acts (Fisheries Act, 1891, and Sea Fisheries [Shell Fish] 

 Eegulation Act, 1894), include the making of bye-laws, subject to the 

 approval of the Board of Trade, for the prohibition or regulation of any 

 method of fishing for sea fish, for the establishment of close seasons for 

 any sea fish, and for the regulation, protection, and development of 

 fisheries for all kinds of shell fish (molluscs and crustaceans). Those 

 powers have been largely exercised by the Committees, and the full 

 text of all the bye-laws, which have received the sanction of the Board 

 of Trade, is published in the Annual Reports of the Inspectors of Sea 

 Fisheries for England and Wales. 



It may be useful to those interested in the protection of fisheries, 

 more especially of inshore fisheries, to bring together under subject 

 headings the regulations now in force, which vary considerably in the 

 different districts around the coast. The regulations and restrictions 

 apply to the sea within three miles of the coast, but not to those 

 tidal estuaries which are under the jurisdiction of Boards of Salmon 

 Conservators. 



Trawling with Steam Vessels. 



Trawling from vessels propelled otherwise than by sails or oars is 

 entirely prohibited on the east coast of England, from Northumberland 

 to the southern limit of the Eastern Fisheries District at Happisburg, on 

 the coast of Norfolk. South of tliis point steam trawling is permitted 

 along the east coast, and along the south coast of Sussex as far west- 

 ward as Hayling Island, the mesh of the trawl, however, being 

 regulated, as for sailing trawlers {see below), within the limits of the 

 Kent and Essex and the Sussex Sea Fisheries Districts. 



Along the remainder of the south coast (Soutliern, Devon, and 

 Cornwall Districts), and along the west coast of England and Wales, 

 steam trawling is forbidden, excepting in the Milford Haven and 

 Cumberland Districts. 



