Chapter LXXIV: Section 1: is as follows: “1.--(1) The Board of Trade may from time to

time on the application of a county council or borough council, by order, (_a_) create a sea fisheries district comprising _any part of the sea within which Her Majesty’s subjects have by international law the exclusive right of fishing_, either with or without any part of the adjoining coast of England and Wales; and (_b_) define the limits of the district,” &c. _Sea Fisheries (England and Wales), Annual Reports of the Inspectors_; _Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Annual Reports of Proceedings under Acts relating to Sea Fisheries_. An excellent chart, showing the regulations with respect to trawling around the English coast, is published in the _Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Sea Fisheries Bill_, 1904.

[1306] _Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland: Report on the Sea and Inland Fisheries for 1907._ Part I., General Report, pp. 56-62.

[1307] _Report on the Sea and Inland Fisheries of Ireland for 1904_, p. xxv. _Manual of Fisheries (Ireland) Acts._ Section 3 (subsection 1) of the _Steam Trawling (Ireland) Act_, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict., c. 74), gave powers to the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries to make, alter, and revoke byelaws for prohibiting steam-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 byelaw.” Subsection 2 enacted that “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 subject to a fine not exceeding five pounds for a first offence, or twenty pounds for a second or subsequent offence, with forfeiture of the gear employed. Section 4 made it unlawful for “any person” to land or sell in Ireland any fish caught in contravention of any such byelaw.