232 PROTECTION AND PRESERVATlOlir. 



Extratpiritoriai territorial waters, may adopt siicli measures as 



jmis'dictiou. 



are essential to tlia preservation of the species, 

 without limitation as to tlie distance from land 

 at which such necessary measures may be 

 enforced. 

 Irish oyster Xliis principle is well illustrated by two recent 



fisueries. ^ ^ •' 



statutes enacted by the Parliament of Great 

 Britain. By the British " Sea Fisheries Act " of 

 1868^ provision is made for the regulation of 

 oyster dredging on any oyster bed within 

 twenty miles of a straight line drawn from the 

 eastern end of Lambay Island to Carnsore Point 

 on the eastern coast of Ireland. The law states 

 in terms that it is to be enforced " outside of the 

 exclusive fishery limits of the British Isles," and 

 that every order issued in pursuance of it shall 

 be binding not only on British sea-fishing boats, 

 but also '' on any other sea-fishing boats in that 

 behalf specified in the order and on the crews of 

 such boats." In other words, jurisdiction may 

 be asserted over foreigners as well as British 

 subjects at a distance of twenty miles from land, 

 scotcii Herring The Scotcli Herring Fishery Act of 1889' fur- 



FisUery Act. " -^ 



nishes another illustration in point. That act 

 provides that certain destructive methods of fish- 

 ing may be prohibited by the fishery board in 



'Statute of British Parliament, 31 and 32 Vict., c.45. Sec. G7; 

 ma]) of area deiined in the statute, Vol. I, p. 457. 



''Statute, m and 53 Vict. c. 23, and map, Sec^ 7, Vol. I, p. 458. 



