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APPENDIX I. 



DRAFT BYE-LAWS FOR THE LANCASHIRE AND WESTERN SEA FISHERIES 



DISTRICT. 



At a Meeting- of the Joint-Committee, held at Chester on Thursday, 251)1 April, 

 1901, the following- bye-laws were adopted, and have now been submitted to the Board of 

 Trade for confirmation : 



i. The following bye-laws shall apply to the whole area of the Lancashire and 

 Western Sea Fisheries District, unless otherwise specified, and except in the cases to which 

 the provisions of the i3th Section of "The Sea Fisheries Regulation Act, 1888," apply. 

 Provided that nothing in these bye-laws shall apply to any person fishing for sea fish for 

 scientific purposes, or for stocking or breeding purposes, or removing mussels during the close 

 season for use as bait under the written authority in that behalf of the Local Fisheries 

 Committee, signed by their clerk or clerks, and in accordance with the conditions set out in 

 that authority. 



2. No artifice or device shall be used so as practically to diminish the size of the 

 mesh of any net. 



3- No person shall use in fishing for sea fish any net with any trap or pocket, 

 provided that this bye-law shall not apply to any person using a fish trawl net the mesh 

 of which is in accordance with bye-law 4. 



4- No person shall use in fishing for sea fish, other than shrimps, prawns, mackerel, 

 herring, sparling, or garfish, any net having a mesh through which a square gauge of one 

 and three-quarter inches, measured across each side of the square, or seven inches measured 

 round the four sides, will not pass without pressure when the net is wet, provided that 

 between the ist day of June and the i5th day of November following, both inclusive, it 

 shall be lawful to use a trawl net having a mesh through which a square gauge of one and 

 a half inches, measured across each side of the square, or six inches measured round the four 

 sides, will pass without pressure when the net is wet, on the seaward side of lines drawn 

 between the following limits : 



(a) A line drawn straight from the south-west extremity of Haverigg Point, in 

 Cumberland, to the north-western extremity of Walney Island ; 



(b) A line drawn straight from Walney lighthouse to the Wyre lighthouse ; 



(c) A line drawn straight from the " Star Inn," South Shore, Blackpool, to 

 the inner north-west sea mark on Formby Point ; 



(d} A line drawn straight from the lifeboat-house at Formby to the Crosby 

 lightship, and thence straight to Leasowe lighthouse, in the County of Chester. 

 5. No person shall use, in fishing for sea fish other than shrimps or prawns, any trawl 

 net except in accordance with the following regulations : 



(a) When the length of beam does not exceed eighteen feet between the trawl 

 heads, or irons, the circumference of the net shall be not less than fifty 

 meshes. 



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