NORTH EASTERN SECTION OF SCOTLAND. 
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Extract from 
CHAPTER 23. 
An Act to amend the Herring Fishery (Scotland) 
Acts ; and for other purposes relating thereto. 
[26th July, 1889.) 
PENTLAND FIRTH 
7.—{1.) The Fishery Board may, by byelaw or byelaws 
direct that the methods of fishing known as beam trawling 
and otter trawling shall not be used within a line drawn 
from Duncansby Lead, in Caithness, to Rattray Point, in 
Aberdeenshire, in any area or areas to be defined in such 
byelaw, and may from time to time make, alter, and revoke 
byelaws for the purposes of this section, but no such bye- 
law shall be of any validity until it has been confirmed by 
the Secretary for Scotland, 
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(2.) Any person who uses any such method of fishing 
in contravention of any such byclaw shall be liuble, on 
conviction under the Snmmary Jurisdiction (Scotland) 
Acts, to fine not exceeding five pounds for the first 
offence, and not exceeding twenty pounds for the second 
or any subsequent offence ; and every net eet, or attempted 
to be set, in contravention of any such byelaw may be 
seized and destroyed or otherwise disposed of as in the 
sixth section of this Act mentioned. 
