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(b) No portion of the net shall be nearer the centre of any stream or channel 

 than the edge of such stream or channel at low-water of a tide, the high-water 

 line of which stands sixteen feet above the level of the sill of the Old Dock at 

 Liverpool. 



(c) No portion of the net shall be nearer than one hundred and fifty yards to 

 any portion of another stake net, not being- a hose net. 



(d) No mackerel baulk shall exceed 600 yards in length, no other stake net 

 shall exceed 300 yards in length, and no stake net of the description known as a 

 poke net shall exceed 150 yards in length. 



16. No person shall use in fishing for mackerel, herring, garfish, sparling, shrimps, or 

 prawns, any method or instrument of fishing, except at times and places at which and in the 

 manner in which such method or instrument may be reasonably calculated to take such fish 

 respectively. 



17. At the times and places at which, and in the manner in which it may be reasonably 

 calculated to take eels or mullet only, an eel or mullet net may be used under the written 

 authority in that behalf of the Local Fisheries Committee, signed by their clerks or clerk or 

 superintendent, and in accordance with the conditions set out in that authority. 



!. No person shall use in fishing for sea fish any seine, draft, trawl, bow, hand, hose, 

 shank, stake, or otter net in that portion of the district which lies between a line drawn true 

 west from the building known as " Uncle Tom's Cabin," on the coast, near and north of the 

 Borough of Blackpool, and a line drawn true west from the building known as the " Star Inn," 

 on the coast, within the said borough. 



19. No person shall fish for cockles except 



(a) By hand, craam, rake, or spade, provided that between the first day of 

 November and the last day of February following, both inclusive, it shall be lawful 

 to use an instrument locally known as a Jumbo, not exceeding four feet six inches 

 in length, fourteen inches in width, and one inch in thickness, provided that such 

 instrument shall be constructed entirely of wood, and shall not be dragged across 

 the cockle beds or artificially weighted. 



(b) No person shall remove from a fishery any cockle which will pass through 

 a gauge having a square opening of thirteen-sixteenths of an inch, measured across 

 each side of the square. 



20. No person shall fish for mussels, except 

 By hand, or with a rake. 



21. No person shall remove from a fishery any mussels from the ist of April to the 

 1 5th September following, both inclusive. 



22. No person shall use any kind of prawn or shrimp trawl net, dredge or shank net, 

 on any mussel bed, or dig for worms on any mussel bed, except under the written authority in 

 that behalf of the local Fisheries Committee, signed by their clerks or clerk or superintendent, 

 and in accordance with the conditions set out in that authority. 



23. No person shall remove from a fishery any mussel less than two inches in length. 



24. No person shall remove from a fishery any oyster which will pass through a 

 circular ring of two and a half inches in internal diameter. 



