These Bye-laws, made by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry under the Sea-Fisheries Act 1971, mainly prescribe rules for the use of gear in marine fishing operations but they also concern the minimum size of sea fish and place restrictions on fishing for herring, on fishing for shrimps to protect flatfish, and on fishing for salmon and sea trout. They prohibit the carrying out on board a fishing vessel any physical or chemical processing of fish to produce fish-meal, fish-oil or similar products, or trans-ship catches of fish for such purposes. The Bye-laws - (a) regulate the mesh sizes, combination, carriage and use of towed nets which may be used in respect of target species, and specify the composition of catches which are permitted for each range of mesh siz ; (b) regulate the way in which composition of catches taken with a towed net and with fixed gear shall be calculated; (c) regulate carriage and use of nets with reference to the construction of the codend of a towed net, the insertion of square-mesh panels in towed nets, and the carriage and use of bottom set gill nets and drift nets; (d) regulate the sorting and retention on board or return to the sea of catches; (e) regulate the carriage or use of technical devices with nets; (f) prohibit the retention, transshipment or landing of sea-fish less than specific minimum sizes.
Isla de Man (RU) · 2000-11-22