23/12/1925: FISHERY

BY-LAW No. 376. NETTING IN DUNDALK BAY.

BY-LAW No. 376. NETTING IN DUNDALK BAY.

I, FIONÁN Ó LOINGSIGH, Minister for 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 :--

It is prohibited to anchor, moor, or make fast, for the purpose of or for any purpose accessory to fishing with a net known as a Danish Seine (or any seine or draft net by whatsoever name known) hauled by steam or motor power, any boat, buoy, pole, or other contrivance in such a manner that it shall be or come within or to the Westward of a straight line drawn across Dundalk Bay from the highest point of Slieve Foye or Carlingford Mountain on the North to the Eastern extremity of Dunany Point on the South.

Each and every person offending against this By-law shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding Five Pounds, and all nets used contrary to this By-law shall be forfeited.

This By-law may be cited for all purposes as the Dundalk Bay By-law, No. 376, 1925.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office, this 23rd day of December, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-five.

FIONÁN Ó LOINGSIGH,

Minister for 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.