68 BRITISH FISHERIES 



Act in 1894,^ and these Acts increased the powers 

 of the committees for making by-laws, and gave 

 them authority to enforce the Shell-fish Act of 

 1877, and to spend public money on cultivating 

 shell-fish (molluscs and crustaceans), in stocking 

 public fisheries, and in making scientific experi- 

 ments and observations with those ends in view. 

 In so far as they went, these increased powers 

 were of some utility, but little or nothing has been 

 done by the committees in the way of restocking 

 the shell-fish beds.^ The legislation applying to 

 the Scottish system was useful, just so far as it 

 was demanded by those conversant with the 

 sea-fisheries in that country. The Sea-Fisheries 

 Regulation (Scotland) Act of 1895 ^ reconstituted 

 the Fishery Board, and gave the Secretary for 

 Scotland power (which was immediately taken 

 advantage of) to appoint a scientific superintendent 

 to supervise and control such scientific inquiries 

 as the Board might deem necessary for carrying 

 out the provisions of the Fisheries Acts. The 

 police cruisers under the control of the Board 

 were afterwards increased in number, and that 

 body was given authority to extend its jurisdiction 

 over the coastal waters to a distance of thirteen 

 miles out to sea, at any time when international 



1 The Sea-Fisheries (Shell-fish) Regulation Act, 57 and 58 

 Vict. c. 26. 



2 Except during the last year or two, when the Lancashire Sea- 

 Fisheries Committee began to " transplant " mussels and cockles. 



3 58 and 59 Vict. c. 42. 



