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5. Scottish Herring Fishery Acts 



Herring Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1865 (28 

 Vict. C. 22). — This amended several existing Acts, and 

 made herring fishing illegal on the west coast of Scotland, 

 south of Ardnamurchan Point, between February i and 

 May 31. 



Herring Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1867 (30 and 

 31 Vict. C. 52). — Removed certain restrictions on herring 

 fishing. 



Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889 (52 and 53 

 Vict. C. 23). — This Act is far more important than its 

 title indicates. It legalised certain measures for use in the 

 trade ; it made herring fishing illegal on Sundays and on 

 week-days from sunrise to sunset, on the west coast 

 south of Ardnamurchan Point ; it made trawling illegal 

 in Scottish territorial waters and in a number of scheduled 

 areas, including the Moray Firth and the Firth of Clyde ; 

 and it made the landing of fish caught in contravention of 

 the by-laws illegal on the Scottish coasts. 



Herring Fishery (Scotland) Amendment Act, 

 1890 (53 and 54 Vict. C. 10). — Increased the penalty 

 for trawling in Scottish prohibited waters. 



6. Irish Sea-Fisheries 



Irish fishery legislation is extremely complex. There 

 are altogether about forty enactments applying to the 

 industry.* The foundation of the existing code is — 



Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1842 (5 and 6 Vict. c. 

 106). Subsequent Acts may be regarded as amending or 

 extending this one. Statutory by-laws are very numer- 

 ous. A great number of enactments impose judicial 

 duties on, and vest powers in, the inspectors. Other 

 Acts provide for the encouragement of the industry, by 

 loans to fishermen, and, as in the case of Scotland, by 



' S^t Manual of Fisheries {Ireland) Acts, pp. 397 + xxvi, 1904 [Cd. 2277], for 

 the text of the purely Irish Acts. 



