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25. No person shall remove from a fishery any berried lobster or any berried edible 

 crab. 



26. No person shall remove from a fishery 



(a) Any lobster measuring less than nine inches from the tip of the beak 

 to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat. 



(b] Any edible crab measuring 1 less than five inches across the broadest part 

 of the back. 



27. Any person who takes any shell fish, the removal of which from a fishery is 

 prohibited by any of these bye-laws, or the possession of which is prohibited by any Act of 

 Parliament, shall forthwith re-deposit the same as nearly as possible in the place from which 

 they were taken, or, under the written authority of the Superintendent, on other suitable 

 ground, and in re-depositing cockles in accordance with this bye-law, shall spread them thinly 

 and evenly over the beds. 



28. No person shall use any method or instrument of fishing for sea fish other than the 

 following : 



(a) A method or instrument permitted by these bye-laws. 



(b) Hooks and lines. 



(r) A pot, or basket, for taking eels, prawns, lobsters, crabs, or whelks. 

 (d] A hedge baulk in use previous to the gth of August, 1893, the catching 

 parts whereof consist wholly of net having a mesh in conformity with bye-law 4. 



29. The deposit or discharge of any solid or liquid substance detrimental to sea fish 

 or sea fishing is hereby prohibited, provided that this bye-law shall not apply (i) to the 

 deposit by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board within the area coloured brown on the 

 Chart marked S. 1568-1895, in the possession of the Board of Trade, of refuse or material 

 dredged or excavated in the course of the execution under statutory power of any work by the 

 said Docks and Harbour Board within the Port of Liverpool, or (2) to the deposit by any 

 person, with the consent in writing of the Committee, given under the hand of their clerk or 

 clerks, and confirmed by the Board of Trade, of any such solid or liquid substance on an area 

 shown on a Chart referred to in the consent and in accordance with the conditions laid down in 

 that consent. 



30. Any person who shall commit a breach of any of the foregoing bye-laws shall be 

 liable to a penalty not exceeding for any one offence the sum of Twenty Pounds, and in the 

 case of a continuing offence the additional sum of Ten Pounds for every day during which the 

 offence continues, and in any case to forfeiture of any fishing instrument used or sea fish taken 

 in contravention of or found in possession of a person contravening such bye-law. 



31. All bye-laws heretofore in force in the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries 

 District are hereby repealed, provided that nothing in such repeal shall affect any penalty, 

 forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed ag'ainst any bye-law so 

 repealed. 



J. P. MUSPRATT, ) Joint Clerks to the 

 RANDAL CASSON, ' Committee. 



