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A])]pe7idices to Ninth Annual Report 
Bye-Law (No. 5) made by the Fishery Board for Scotland, under the 
powers conferred on the Board by the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) 
Amendment Act, 1885. 
I. This Bye-Law shall extend and apply to that part of the sea inside of 
a line beginning at a point three miles east (magnetic) of Bed Head, in 
Forfarshire, and extending along the coast at a distance of three miles from 
low-water mark, to a point three miles north (magnetic) of Kinnairdhead 
Lighthouse. 
II. Within the foresaid limits, no person, unless in the service or by the 
orders 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 X'lOO ; and failing immediate payment of the fine, to imprisonment 
for a period not exceeding sixty days, without prejudice to diligence by 
poinding or imprisonment, if no imprisonment has followed on the conviction, 
all in terms of the said Act. 
III. This Bye-Law shall come into force on Thursday the 28th February 
1889. 
By Order, 
DUGALD GRAHAM, Secretary. 
Dated at Edinburgh this 18th day of December 1888. 
The foregoing Bye-Law having been submitted to me, in pursuance of 
the 4th Section of the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1885, I hereby 
confirm the same. 
LOTHIAN, 
Her Majesty's Secretary for ( l.s. , 
Scotland. V_y 
Office of the Secretary for Scotland, 
Whitehall, 27th February 1889. 
The Sections of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889, which re- 
late to trawling, are as follow : — 
6. — (1.) It shall not be lawful to use the method of fishing known as beam 
trawling or otter trawling within three miles of low-water mark of any part of 
the coast of Scotland, nor within the waters specified in the schedule hereto 
annexed, save only between such points on the coast or within such other 
defined areas as may from time to time be permitted by Bye-Laws of the Fishery 
Board for Scotland, and subject to any conditions or regulations made by those 
Bye-Laws. Provided that this section shall not apply to the Solway Firth nor 
to the Pentland Firth ; and provided also, that nothing herein contained shall 
aft'ect the powers of the Fishery Board under Section 4 of the Sea Fisheries 
(Scotland) Amendment Act, 1885. 
(2.) The Fishery Board may from time to time make, alter, and revoke Bye- 
Laws for the purposes of this section, bat a Bye-Law shall not be of any validity 
until it is confirmed by the Secretary for Scotland. 
(.3.) Any person who uses any method of fishing in contravention of this 
enactment or of any Bye-Law of the Fishery Board, shall be liable, on conviction 
under the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, to a fine not exceeding five 
pounds for the first off'ence, and not exceeding twenty pounds for the second 
or any subsequent oft'ence ; and every net set, or attempted to be set, in 
contravention of this section shall be forfeited, and may be seized and destroyed 
or otherwise disposed of by any superintendent of the herring fishery or other 
officers employed in the execution of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Acts. 
7. — (1.) The Fishery Board may, by Bye-Law or Bye-Laws, direct that the 
methods of fishing known as beam trawling and otter trawling shall not be 
used within a line drawn from Duncansby Head, in Caithness, to Rattray 
Point, in Aberdeenshire, in any area or areas to be defined in such Bye-Law, 
