82 FISHES AND FISHERIES OF THE IRISH SEA. 
(4) When the length of beam, measured as aforesaid, exceeds eighteen feet 
but does not exceed twenty-five feet, the circumference of the net shall not be less 
than sixty meshes. 
(c) When the length of beam, measured as aforesaid, exceeds twenty-five feet, 
the circumference of the net shall be not less than eighty meshes. 
6.—No person shall use in fishing for mackerel, herring, sparling, or garfish, any seine, 
draft, drift, set, or stake net having a mesh through which a square gauge of one inch, 
measured across each side of the square, or four inches measured round the four sides, will 
not pass without pressure when the net is wet. 
7.—No person shall use in fishing for sea fish any drift net having a depth of more 
than 200 meshes. 
8.—No person shall use in fishing for sparling any net or instrument between the first 
day of April and the thirty-first day of October following, both inclusive. 
9.—No person shall use, in fishing for shrimps or prawns, any net having a mesh 
through which a square gauge of three-eighths of an inch, measured across each side of the 
square, or one and a half inches measured round the four sides, will not pass without pressure 
when the net is wet. 
10.—No person shall use, in fishing for shrimps or prawns, any trawl net except in 
accordance with the following regulations :— 
(a) When the length of beam between the trawl heads or irons does not exceed 
twenty feet, the circumference of the net shall be not less than one hundred and 
twenty meshes. 
(6) When the length of beam, measured as aforesaid, exceeds twenty feet, 
the circumference of the net shall be not less than one hundred and forty 
meshes. 
(c) The length of beam, measured as aforesaid, shall not exceed twenty-five 
feet. 
11.—No person shall use, in fishing for shrimps or prawns, any shank or bow net having 
a less circumference than eighty meshes. 
12.—No person shall use, in fishing for shrimps or prawns, any hand or hose net having 
a less circumference than seventy meshes. 
13.—-Any person who shall use any net authorised by these bye-laws for the capture of 
shrimps or prawns, shall forthwith return to the water with the least possible injury all other 
sea fish captured in such net. 
14.—-No person shall use in fishing for sea fish from any vessel propelled otherwise than 
by sails or oars, any method or instrument of fishing except hooks and lines. 
15.—No person shall use in fishing for sea fish any stake net, except in accordance with 
the following regulations :— 
(a) The site of the net shall be marked by poles, perches, or buoys, visible 
above the surface at high-water of any tide, and such poles, perches, or buoys shall 
be maintained so long as the stakes of the net continue in position, All stake nets 
shall be marked with the owner’s name, affixed to the end stakes, so long as the 
stakes continue in position. 
