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Trawling in Cork harbour for fish, exceptoysters 101. and the boat, tackles &c. to the house of industry and prosecutor.
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XIII. Whereas the practice of trawling, carried on in the harbour of Cork, tends to the injury of the fishery thereof: therefore be it enacted by authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall from and after the first day of August next take or destroy any fish whatsoever (oysters excepted) in the harbour of Cork inside of the points called the Cow and Calf by trawling, such person or persons shall on due proof thereof made before the mayor of the city, or any one or more of the justices of the peace of the county of the said city, or any one or more of the justices of the peace for the county of Cork, contiguous to the said harbour, forfeit the sum of ten pounds, together with the boat or vessel which shall be employed in such trawling or fishing, with all tackle, fails, and rigging, together with such fishing trawls and geer made use of in such trawling, one moiety of the said sum of ten pounds, and one moiety of the money that may arise by the sale of such forfeited boat or vessel, and of her tackle, sails, and rigging, and of such fishing trawl and geer, to go to the use of the house of industry of the said city of Cork, and the other moiety thereof to go to the use of such person or persons as shall first sue for the same.
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