Ixvi 



Fifth Annual Report of the 



increasing the supply, as well as that of mussels, by inducing 

 individuals or companies to engage in their cultivation. 

 Board in TJie Board have been in communication with several parties in 



communication re( r a rd to fishery orders, and after full consideration they resolved 



AVI til "PO^tlCS . 



regarding to entertain an application from Messrs William Hay and others, at 

 Fishery Tarbert, Lochfyne, for an order for the establishment, maintenance, 

 and regulation of an oyster and mussel fishery on the sea-bed of 

 West Loch Tarbert, in the county of Argyll, and decided to proceed 

 with the case, but the arrangements in regard thereto were not 

 completed within the period embraced by this Eeport. 



MARINE POLICE AND FISHERY SUPERINTENDENCE. 



Instructions to 

 Officers 

 regarding 

 lettering and 

 numbering of 

 Boats, 

 efficiently- 

 carried out. 



Number of 



Boats 



detained. 



Registration of 



Boats. 

 Certificates 

 issued, 



examined, and 

 endorsed. 



The instructions issued by the Board to their officers, which were 

 specially adverted to in their last Report, for the enforcement of the 

 regulations regarding the lettering and numbering of all British sea 

 fishing boats, as required by the Sea Fisheries Acts and the relative 

 Orders in Council, were efficiently carried out ; and the officers ex- 

 plained the provisions of the Acts to the fishermen, and encouraged 

 them to observe the regulations. The number of boats detained 

 in 1886 for contravention of the regulations was 698, being an in- 

 crease of 267 over the preceding year. These detentions, although 

 numerous, were generally only for a few hours, but they proved 

 sufficient for the enforcement of the regulations without measures 

 being resorted to for having the fishermen fined, as authorised by 

 the Acts. 



The proceedings in connection with the registration of fishing 



boats (for police purposes), during the year 1886, were as follow, 

 viz.: — The number of applications made to the officers of the Board 

 for certificates of registration was 599; the number of applications 

 transmitted to collectors of customs, and of certificates issued, was 

 603 ; and the number of registers examined and indorsed was 5600. 



In Appendix D., Table VI., will be found particulars, classified 

 by districts, of these applications to register, and of the registers 

 issued, and examined and endorsed, and of the boats detained by 

 the 'Vigilant' cruiser and H.M.S. ' Jackal.' 



The duties of the Board in connection with the protection of the 

 fisheries, which, in so far as they related to H.M.S. ' Jackal ' and the 

 other Admiralty vessels placed at the service of the Board, had 

 hitherto been carried on under the directions of the Lords of the 

 Admiralty, were last year, by instructions from their Lordships, 

 placed under the orders of the Admiral Superintendent of Naval 

 Reserves, with whom the Board were requested in future to 

 communicate direct in all matters relating to the protection of the 

 fisheries, but upon the understanding that any points of difference 

 which might arise should be settled between the Admiralty and the 

 Secretary for Scotland. The commanders of these vessels were 

 ordered to act, as had hitherto been the case, on the direct instruc- 

 tions of the Board. Their Lordships were pleased to substitute for 

 H.M.S. * Jackal,' the ' Woodcock ' (re-named ' Jackal '), which is a 

 swifter and more powerful vessel. She has also the advantage of 

 substituted for being provided with the electric light, so that she will be enabled to 

 ^Jackai ' sight vessels at a considerable distance during the night, and thus 



Duties of 

 Board in 

 protecting 

 Fisheries with 

 Admiralty 

 vessels, now 

 carried on 

 under the 

 Admiral 

 Superin- 

 tendent of 

 Naval 

 Reserves. 



Swifter and 

 more powerful 

 Vessel 



