of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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desirable to give power to prohibit the use of the seine in Upper Loch 

 Fyne and in other narrow waters less than one mile wide. 



By the Sea Fisheries Regulation (Scotland) Act, 1895, power was 

 given to the Fishery Board, by bye-law or bye-laws, to prohibit seine 

 trawling within any area or areas within the limits specified in the sixth 

 section of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889, or in the schedule 

 annexed to it; and a bye-law was passed in 1901 prohibiting the use of 

 the seine-net for herrings on Ballantrae Bank and neighbouring waters, as 

 defined therein.* 



While, as shown above, the seine-net is less effective at some periods 

 than the drift-net, there is no doubt that, taken on the whole, it is the 

 most successful method prosecuted in the Firth of Clyde, and its use 

 has extended considerably in recent years. 



The statistics showing the extent to which the various modes of 

 fishing have been practised in the various districts in the Firth of Clyde 

 do not extend very far back, but in the following Table the particulars 

 are given for four of the five districts in the years 1899-1901, and for 

 the five districts, and the whole area, in the years 1902-1906 : — 



* Twentieth Annual Report, Part I., p. 258. 



Table. 



