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The Secretary for Scotland shall allow any person to make a repre- 

 sentation for his interest against the confirmation of any bye-law, on a 

 notice of objection being given by such person to the Fishery Board 

 within the said period of one month, and may, if he see fit, allow parties 

 to be heard thereon. 



Decision of 

 Board as to 

 Waters to be 

 closed. 



Although the Board had previously given full and anxious 

 consideration as to what in-sliore waters ought to be closed against 

 beam trawling, they deemed it right, when the Act was passed, in 

 view of the important interests at stake, again to consider the 

 whole matter. After having done this, they were fully confirmed 

 in the conclusions at which they had formerly arrived, and 

 accordingly they made the following bye-law : — 



Bye-law made Bye-Law made hy the Fishery Board for Scotland under the Powers Con- 

 thereto^^^*^^ /erre(i on the Board hy the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act, 



1885. 



I. This Bye-law shall extend and apply to — 



(1.) The Firth of Forth inside or to the west of a straight line 

 drawn from Tantallon Castle on the south shore of the Firth to 

 the Lighthouse on the Isle of May, and thence to Fife Ness. 



(2.) St Andrews Bay and the Firth of Tay, so far as they lie 

 inside or to the west of a straight line drawn from Fife Ness to 

 the Fairway Buoy at the mouth of the Tay, and thence to the 

 land. 



(3.) That part of the sea of the coast of Aberdeenshire and 

 Kincardineshire which lies inside or to the west of a straight line 

 drawn from the Cruden Scars Eocks to a point one and a half 

 miles east magnetic of Girdleness Lighthouse. 



II. Within the foresaid limits no person, unless in the service of the 



Fishery Board for Scotland, shall at any time from the date when 

 this bye-law comes into force use any beam trawl for taking sea 

 fish ; and the master or the person actually in command of any 

 vessel acting in contravention of this bye-law shall, on conviction, 

 be liable to a fine not exceeding £100, and failing immediate 

 payment of the fine, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 

 sixty days, without prejudice to diligence by poinding or imprison- 

 ment, if no imprisonment has followed on the conviction — all in 

 terms of the said Act. 

 III. This Bye-law shall come into force on Monday, the 5th of April 

 next. 



By order, 



DUGALD GKAHAM, Secretary. 



Dated at Edinburgh this 1st day of February 1886. 



It will be seen that the Board, under the provisions of the Statute, 

 makin^^Bye- empowered to make such a bye-law as this, on their being 

 law. ° satisfied that ' any mode of fishing is injurious to any ' kind of sea 



* fishing ' within the waters to be closed, or where it appears to them 



* desirable to make experiments or observations with the view of 

 ' ascertaining whether any particular mode of fishing is injurious.' 



