§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)hoped 2017 the House would allow the Bill to be read a second time. Pollen was a freshwater herring, peculiar to Lough Neagh, and in season up to the 1st November. Between 300 and 400 persons lived mainly by this fishing, and as the salmon and trout season closed much earlier the Inspectors of Fisheries, up to last year, made separate orders for the close season for salmon and trout and for the close season for pollen; but it had now been found that under the existing law such separate orders could not lawfully be made, and that there could only be the same close season for salmon and trout and for pollen. The consequence of this was that although pollen were in season they could not be captured after the 2018 close season for salmon had commenced. This was a serious hardship to an industrious class of fishermen, which it was the object of the present Bill to remedy, and to enable pollen to be captured during the salmon close time and when pollen was in season.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That the Bill be now read a second time,"—(Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland,)—put, and agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for To-morrow.
§ House adjourned at a quarter before Three o'clock.