of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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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, but it is provided that the said Section (6) shall not apply to the 
Solway Firth nor to the Pentland Firth ; and whereas it is expedient that 
the experiments and observations heretofore conducted by the Fishery Board 
for Scotland should be continued, therefore it is hereby declared that any 
person m the service or possessing the written authority of the said Fishery 
Board, under the hand of the Secretary thereof, may lawfully use, and is 
hereby permitted to use, when employed in connection with the experiments 
and observations aforesaid, or other scientific purposes, 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 to which the said Section (6) of the 
said Act applies, and within the waters specified in the Schedule annexed to 
the said Act. 
II. This Bye-Law shall come into force from and after the date of its 
confirmation by the Secretary for Scotland. 
Dated at Edinburgh this 20th day of December 1889. 
The foregoing Bye-Law having been submitted to me, in pursuance of 
Section 6, Sub-section 2, of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889, I 
hereby confirm the same. 
Office of the Secretary for Scotland, 
Whitehall, 27th January 1890. 
Bye-Law (No. 8) made by the Fishery Board for Scotland, under the 
powers conferred on the Board by the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) 
Amendment Act, 1885, the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889, 
and the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act Amendment Act, 1890. 
I. Whereas, by the Act 52 and 53 Vict. cap. 23, being the aforesaid 
Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889, it is enacted that the Fishery Board 
lor Scotland may by Bye-Law or Bye-Laws direct that the method oi fishing 
known as beam trawling, or 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,' it is hereby declared that 
the area to which the foregoing provision shall apply is the portion of the 
waters above specified, inside of a straight line drawn from the Ord of Caithness 
to Craighead, near Buckie. 
II. Within the aforesaid area, as above defined, no person, unless in the 
service or possessing the written authority of the said Fishery Board lor 
Scotland, under the hand of the Secretary thereof, shall at any time, from the 
date when this Bye-Law shall come into force, use any beam trawl or otter 
trawl for taking sea-fish ; and any person acting in contravention of this Bye- 
Law, shall be liable, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction (Scot- 
land) Acts, to a fine not exceeding ,£100 ; and failing immediate payment 
of the fine, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding sixty days, with- 
out prejudice to diligence by poinding or arrestment, if no imprisonment has 
followed on the conviction ; and every net set, or attempted to be set, in con- 
travention of the said Bye-Law, shall be forfeited, and may be seized and 
destroyed, or otherwise disposed of by any superintendent of the herring fishery 
or other officer employed in the execution of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) 
Acts, all in terms of the said Acts, 
By Order, 
DUGALD GRAHAM, Secretary, 
LOTHIAN, 
Her Majesty's Secretary for 
Scotland. 
