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ing steam fishing-boats, as to which new regulations were made; and 



to require all persons belonging to British sea-fishing boats, and 



fishcurers, catching or curing sea fish in Scotland, or in any part Eetums of Fish 



of the sea adjoining Scotland, to make returns, in such form J^JJf^* 



and at such periods as the Board may prescribe with the sanction of 



the Secretary for Scotland, of all sea fish caught or cured by 



them respectively. Certain powers were also conferred upon the 



officers of the Board relative to the settlement of questions of Darnage to 



damage done by one sea-fishing boat to another, or the nets, lines, ^^^^^s boats, 



gear, or other fishing apparatus thereof ; and the Board were Hooping 



authorised to make regulations concerning the hooping of barrels. barrels. 



They were also invested with all the powers and duties of the 



Board of Trade, so far as they can be exercised in Scotland, with Shell Fisheries 



respect to the oyster, crab, lobster, and mussel fisheries, and clam and Bait Beds. 



and bait beds. 



The proceedings which the Board have taken under this Act of 

 Parliament, will be stated in subsequent parts of the Report. 



BYE-LAW MADE BY THE BOARD TO PREVENT BEAM 

 TRAWLING IN CERTAIN IN-SHORE WATERS. 



As already stated, the Royal Commissioners who were appointed Commissioners 

 in 1883 to inquire and report upoQ the complaints Qiade by line [^^^^^^^^^^^j^ 

 and drift-net fishermen of injuries sustained by them owing to the powersX^iose 

 use of the beam trawl net in the territorial waters, recommended Territorial 

 that powers should be given to this Board to make bye-laws ^ 

 for the regulation or suspension of beam trawling, or of any other 

 mode of fishing, within any part of the territorial waters adjoining 

 Scotland ; and that shortly after the Commissioners' Report was 

 presented to Parliament, the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment 

 Act, 1885, which conferred upon the Board such powers, was passed. Act passed 

 In the fourth section of that Act it is provided that : — conferring such 



powers. 



When the Fishery Board for Scotland are satisfied that any mode of Provisions of 

 fishing in any part of the sea adjoining Scotland, and within th(; 

 exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands, is injurious to any kind 

 of sea fishing within that part, or where it appears to the Fishery 

 Board desirable to make experiments or observations with the view of 

 ascertaining whether any particular mode of fishing is injurious, or for 

 the purposes of fish culture or experiments in fish culture, the Fishery 

 Board may make bye-laws for restricting or prohibiting, either entirely 

 or subject to such regulations as may be provided by the bye-law, any 

 method of fishing for sea fish within the said part, during such time or 

 times as they think fit, and may from time to time make bye-laws for 

 altering or revoking any such bye-laws. 



A bye-law under this Act shall not be of any validity until it is 

 confirmed by the Secretary for Scotland. 



A bye-law shall not be confirmed until the expiration of one month 

 after notice of the intention to apply for its confirmation has been 

 given by the Fishery Board by advertisement in one or more news- 

 papers circulatins^ in the county or counties adjoining the part of the 

 sea to jv^hicli such bye-law applies. 



