" Every legislative restriction means the creation of a new offence. 

 In the case of fishery, it means that a simple man of the people, 

 earning a scanty livelihood by hard toil, shall be liable to fine and 

 imprisonment for doing that which he and his fathers before him 

 have, up to that time, been free to do. 



" If the general interest clearly requires that this burden should 

 be put upon the fishermen — well and good. But if it does not — if 

 indeed there is any doubt about the matter, I think that the man 

 who made the unnecessary law deserves a heavier punishment than 

 the man who breaks it." (Huxley, " Inaugural Address," Interna- 

 tional Fisheries Exhibition (London) Literature, 1883.) 



