GEEAT BRITAIN AND CANADA. 457 



111 England the owner of land or any one in his employ, may seize 

 the implements of any person angling for fish without right, or may 

 prosecute him by criminal i^roceedings; and both remedies may be en- 

 forced concurrently against any one who fishes unlawfully by any means 

 other than angling.^ 



Under "The Salmon Fishery Act, 18()5,"2 any water bailiff may stop 

 and search the boats of any i>erson suspected of illegal fishing, and 

 may search his baskets, and seize any fish and implements, and appre- 

 hend the offender without a Avarrant. 



Justices of tlie Peace may issue warrants to search places for illegal 

 instruments and fish illegally caught and seize the same, which upon 

 the conviction of the offender shall be forfeited.^ 



" The Herring Fishery (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1890,"^ j^rovides 

 for the punishment of persons convicted of illegal fishing for herring, 

 and that every net illegally set may be seized and destroyed, or other- 

 or otherwise disposed of. 



"The Pollen Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1891,"^ provides that constables 

 and water bailiffs may without a warrant open and examine all boxes 

 and baskets in search of pollen illegally caught, and may stop and 

 search all boats, and seize fish and instruments as to which there has 

 been an infraction of the law. 



By a recent act" the use of purse seines for catching any fish in any 

 of the waters of Canada has been absolutely prohibited, and the penalty 

 imposed consists of a fine and the confiscation of the offending vessel 

 and all the ap])aratus used in connection with the illegal catching of 

 fish by the method iu question. 



GREAT BRITAIN". 



STATUTE or, RELATING TO THE OYSTER FISHERIES OF IREIAITD. 



"THE SEA FISHERIES ACT, 1808." 



[31 and 32 Vict., cap. 45. July 13, 18G8.] 



07. Tlie Iri.sh Fishery Commissioners may from Time to Time lay 

 before Her Majesty in Council Byelaws for the Purpose of restricting or 

 regulating the dredging for Oysters on any Oyster BedsorBanks situate 

 within the Distance of Twenty Miles measured from a straight Line 

 drawn from the Eastern Point of Lambay Island to Carnsore Point on 

 the Coast of Ireland, outside of the Exclusive Fishery Limits of the 

 British Islands, and all such Byelaws shall apply equally to all Boats 

 and Persons on whom they may be binding. 



» 24 and 25 Vict., c. 96, Sees. 24, 25. 



2 28 and 29 Vict., c. 121, Sees. 31, 36. 



3 41 and 42 Vict., c. 39, Sees. 9, 11: 51 and 52 Vict., c. 54, Sec. 7: R. S. Canada, c. 

 95, Sees. 12, 17. 



<53 and 54 Vict., c. 10, Sec. 3. 

 f'54 and 55 Vict., c. 20, Sees. 5, 6. 

 6 64 and 55 Vict., c. 43, Sec. 1. 



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