20/01/1930: FISHERY CLOSE SEASON

BY-LAW No. C.S. 85 No. 14 or LETTERKENNY DISTRICT

BY-LAW No. C.S. 85 No. 14 or LETTERKENNY DISTRICT

RIVERS OWENEA, OWENTOCKER, AND LOUGHROSMORE BAY

CLOSE SEASON

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) The period heretofore appointed for the Close Time during which it shall not be lawful to take or fish for Salmon or Trout with engines other than single rod and line in the tidal portions of the Rivers Owenea and Owentocker, and in Loughrosmore Bay within or to the eastward of a line drawn from Dawros Head to Loughros Point, in the No. 14, or Letterkenny district, both in the County of Donegal, shall cease.

(2) There shall be kept and observed in lieu thereof as the Annual Close Season during which it shall not be lawful to take or fish for Salmon or Trout with engines other than single rod and line in the tidal portions of the said rivers Owenea and Owentocker and in the said portion of Loughrosmore Bay, the period from the 16th June in each year to the 30th April in the year following, both said days inclusive.

(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 Owenea and Owentocker Close Season By-law, No. C.S. 85, 1930.

Given under my Seal of Office, this Twentieth day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty.

(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.