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Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868

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24 Penalties on proprietor or occupier for breach of weekly close time. S

The proprietor, or when let the occupier, of every fishery at which stake, weir, or stake nets, fly nets, or bag nets are used, shall in regard to such nets do all acts required by any byelaw in force within the district in which such fishery is situated for the due observance of the weekly close time; and if any such proprietor or occupier shall omit to do any act so required, he shall incur the following penalties; that is to say,

(1)He shall forfeit the net or nets with regard to which such omission has occured:

(2)He shall for each weekly close time during any part of which such omission has occurred pay, in respect of each net to which the proof of such omission applies, a sum not exceeding ten pounds, and a further sum not exceeding two pounds for every salmon taken or killed by means of such nets during the said weekly close time.

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