13/04/1931: Fishery By-Law No. 408 No. 17¹ Or Drogheda District

NETS—SALMON AND TROUT

I, FIONAN O LOINGSIGH, Minister for Lands and Fisheries, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Fisheries Act, 1925 , and of every other power enabling me in this behalf, do MAKE AND ORDAIN THE FOLLOWING BY-LAW :—

(1) It is prohibited to use, for the capture of salmon or trout, in the No. 17¹ or Drogheda District, before the 12th day of June in each year, any Draft Net or Seine Net with a mesh of less size than two-and-one-quarter inches from knot to knot, to be measured along the side of the square, or nine inches to be measured all round each such mesh, such measurements being taken in the clear when the Net is wet.

(2) Each and every person offending against this By-law shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and every net used contrary thereto shall be forfeited.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of this By-law in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

(4) This By-law may be cited for all purposes as the Drogheda District By-law No. 408, 1931.

(5) The By-law by which it was prohibited to use, for the capture of salmon or trout, in the said District before the 12th day of May in each year any Draft or Seine Net with a mesh of less size than two-and-one-quarter inches from knot to knot to be measured along the side of the square or nine inches to be measured all round each such mesh, made on the 25th day of March, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen is hereby revoked.

Given under my Seal of Office this 13th day of April, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-one.

(Signed) FIONÁN O LOÍNGSIGH,

Minister for Lands and Fisheries.

NOTE:—Under the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1925 , this By-law will come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the above date.