Steam Trawling (Ireland) Act 1889
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1889 c. 74 |
| Year | 1889 |
Steam Trawling (Ireland) Act, 1889
(52 & 53 Vict.) CHAPTER 74.
An Act to enable the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries to prohibit Steam Trawling within a certain distance of the Coast of Ireland.
[30th August 1889]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theSteam Trawling (Ireland) Act, 1889.
2 Extent of Act.
2. This Act shall not extend to England or Scotland.
3 Prohibition of steam trawling within certain limits.
(1)3.—(1.) The Inspectors of Irish Fisheries may from time to time make, alter, and revoke byelaws in the manner and under the regulations in the Fisheries Act, 1842 , mentioned, prohibiting the use in or from any steamer or steamship, or vessel propelled by steam, of the method of fishing known as beam trawling or other trawling within three miles of low water mark of any part of the coast of Ireland, or within the waters of any other defined areas specified in any such byelaw, and subject to any conditions or regulations contained in such byelaws.
(2) (2.) Each and every person who uses any trawl net, or any method of fishing in contravention of any byelaw of the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries made in pursuance of this section shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds for the first offence, and not exceeding twenty pounds for the second or any subsequent offence, and every net used or attempted to be used in contravention of any such byelaw, and every rope, warp, tackle, beam, pole, iron, and other matter or thing fastened to or used with any such net, shall be forfeited, and may be seized by any person empowered to enforce the provisions of the Fisheries (Ireland) Acts, and shall when seized be dealt with in the manner prescribed by section one hundred and three of the Fisheries Act, 1842 ; and for the purpose of such seizure all persons empowered by section eighty-six of the said Act to go on board any vessel employed in fishing are hereby empowered to go on board any steamer or steamship or vessel propelled by steam employed in fishing.
4 Fish illegally caught not to be landed or sold.
4. It shall not be lawful for any person to land...
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