158 APPENDIX TO REPORT ON OYSTER CULTURE 



Injuring Oyster Beds. 

 Penalties for 20. Any person other than the Licencees or their assigns, agent?, 

 Oyster Beds, servants, and workmen, within the limits of any Oyster Bed or Laying, 

 c 9 88 sVand knowingly doing any of the following things : — 



29 ^ 30Vic -' Using any implement of fishing, except a Line and Hook or a Net 



adapted solely for catching floating fish, and so used as not to disturb 



or injure in any manner any Oyster Bed or Oysters, or the Oyster 



Fishery : 



Dredging for any ballast or other substance except under a lawful 



authority for improving the navigation : 

 Depositing any (stone, 29 & 30 Vic, c. 97,) ballast, rubbish, or other 



substance : 

 Placing any implement, apparatus, or thing (in the opinion of the 

 Inspectors, 29 & 30 Vic, c. 88,) prejudicial, or likely to be preju- 

 dicial, to any Oyster Bed or Oysters, or Brood or Spawn thereof, 

 or to the Oyster Fishery, except for a lawful purpose of navigation 

 or anchorage : 

 Disturbing or injuring in any manner, except as last aforesaid, any 

 Oyster Bed or Oysters, or Brood or Spawn thereof, or the Oyster 

 Fishery : 

 Interfering with or taking away any of the Oysters from such Bed 

 without the consent of the Licencees or Owners or occupiers of 

 such Bed : 



Liable to a penalty not exceeding Two Pounds for first offence — not 

 exceeding Five Pounds for second offence — and not exceeding Ten 

 Pounds for Third and every subsequent offence ; and also liable to make 

 full compensation to the Licencees for all damage sustained by them by 

 reason of unlawful act, and in default of payment, same may be recovered 

 by the grantees (Licencees, 29 & 30 Vie, c. 97,) by proceedings in any 

 Court of competent Jurisdiction, whether offender has been prosecuted 

 for or convicted of offence or not. (See also 42-46.) 



Close Season. 

 close Season. 21. The general Close Season for Oysters is between 1st May and 1st 

 1o6^2 C .' jC ' September, and unlawful to dredge for, take, catch, or destroy (or have 

 in possession, s. 36,) any Oysters or Oyster Brood between those dates, 

 except where the season may have been or may be altered. 



5&6Vic, c. Penalty, Forfeiture of Oysters, and any sum not exceeding Five 



11V i2Vio d , Pounds, and not less than Ten Shillings. 



c. 92, s. 42. Note. — This season has heen altered in the following localities, viz. : — In Tralee Bay 



from 1st April to 1st November ; in Carlingford Lough from 1st March to 1st November ; 

 in Achill Sound, Clew Bay, and Blacksod Bay, from 1st April to 1st October; but 

 between 1st and 15th April and 20th June and 1st October Oysters may be taken in 

 Clew Bay from the natural public bed, lying below level of lowest water of spring tides, 

 for purpose of replenishing private Oyster Beds in Clew Bay alone. — (See Appendix A.) 



Alteration of Close Season. 

 inspectors 22. Inspectors of Irish Fisheries empowered to alter close season. 



mav alter . ~ - 7 . A N 



dose season, (bee Appendix A.) 



5 & 6 Vic, c. 



106, s.33. 23. Before alteration of Season, a meeting of the persons possessed of 



MeetTnVprV or interested in such Fishery to be called. Notice of the day and place 

 viousto o for such meeting to be given, not less than 14 days from the date of such 

 7& r 8Vio.',c. notice by handbills and advertisement, twice at least, in some newspaper 



108 s.4. 



