Sea FisheriesE. Stanford, 1877 - 300 pages |
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22 inches angling ARROWSMITH average beam Brixham captured carried catch catchment basin caught Charing Cross cloth coast coloured curing deep-sea distance district boards drift fishing drift nets Edward Stanford England English fastened fathoms Fcap feet Firth Fisheries Act fishermen fishing boats fishing station grilse Grimsby ground haddock harbour Harwich hauled Hull important inches by 26 increased Ireland Irish Islands land large number late length line fishing Loch Loch Shiel Loch Tay London long-line mackerel meshes miles mode of fishing mounted on linen mouth North Sea number of fish obstructions pilchards pollutions present railway roller salmon fisheries salmon fishings salmon rivers Scale Scotland sea fisheries sea-trout sean season Sept Sheet Shetland shoals shore shrimps smacks smolts spawning sprats square miles stream taken Thurso tons trawlers trawling Tweed varnished vessel warp weather weirs Yarmouth
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Page 287 - That if any Person not having a legal Right or Permission from the Proprietor of the .Salmon Fishery shall from and after the passing of this Act wilfully take, fish for, or attempt to take, or aid or assist in taking, fishing for, or attempting to take, in or from any River, Stream, Lake, Water, Estuary, Firth...
Page 288 - Act, wilfully take, fish for, or attempt to take, or aid or assist in taking, fishing for, or attempting to take, in or from any river, stream, lake, water, estuary, firth, sea, loch, creek, bay, or shore of the sea, or in or upon any part of the sea, within one mile of lowwater mark, in Scotland, any salmon, grilse, sea-trout, whitling, or other fish of the salmon kind, such person shall forfeit and pay...
Page 29 - ... their further progress in that direction. To understand clearly the facilities offered to the fish to enter the pockets, it is necessary to remember, that the trawl, when at work, is towed along with just sufficient force to expand the net by the resistance of the water. But this resistance directly acts only on the interior of the body of the net between the pockets, and then on the purse ; it does not at first expand the pockets, but rather tends to flatten them, because they are virtually...
Page 228 - Riparian ownership by itself confers no title to salmon fishings — not even to rod fishing ; and it sometimes happens that one person possesses the land on both sides of a river and the subjacent soil, whilst another has the right to the salmon fishings. A charter with an express grant of salmon fishings is required to constitute a valid right, or a charter with a general grant of fishings, followed by forty years' prescription of salmon fishings, or a Barony title, fortified by a similar prescription.
Page 240 - Since this was written, a number of dams formerly impassable by salmon have been rendered passable by means of salmon ladders; but a great deal still remains to be done in this direction, before the ascending fish can have anything approaching to free access to the spawning grounds in the upper waters.
Page 227 - ... (2.) The sides of the gap shall be in a line with and parallel to the direction of the stream at the weir. " (3.) The bottom of the gap shall be level with the natural bed of the stream above and below the gap. " (4.) The width of the gap in its narrowest part shall be not less than one tenth part of the width of the stream, provided always that such gap shall not be required to be wider than forty feet, and shall not in any case be narrower than three feet.
Page 199 - Kinsale hookers were celebrated as sea-going fishing boats. The town has in recent years come into notice as a great station for the mackerel fishery, and at this time is the resort of boats from other parts of Ireland, as well as from Scotland, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man. The fishing, which is by drift nets, begins early in March, and is carried on till about the end of June ; and, as is the case with the herring fishery on the east coast, the stranger boats capture the larger proportion of the...