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Order— No. 1905, Revenue, dated 2nd July 191 4. 



In the above papers the Piscicultural Expert and the 

 Honorary Director of Fisheries call attention to the 

 necessity of prohibiting the use of basket traps and 

 other fixed engines for fishing and of regulating the 

 dimensions of fishing nets, with the object of protecting 

 immature fish and particularly those which are useful 

 as larvicides. 



2. The Government accept their opinion that action 

 in the directions suoo-ested is desirable and is in fact 

 urgently required in some parts of the Presidency m the 

 interests both of the fishing industry and of the campaign 

 against malaria ; but they do not think that the general 

 and immediate application of rules made under the 

 Indian Fisheries Act to all public waters in the country, 

 if indeed such general application were legal, would be 

 prudent or desirable. 



3. So far a^ regards the protection of fish in paddy 

 fields and in private waters within the limits of zamin- 

 dari and other estates, they consider that no direct 

 action is possible, unless the owners concerned consent 

 to the application of rules made under the Fisheries 

 Act. But they desire that their officers should take 

 every opportunity of impressing upon pattadars and 

 landholders, the folly of methods of fishing which involve 

 the needless destruction of small fry, and should use 

 every endeavour to discourage them. 



4. In public waters, e.g., rivers and channels regis- 

 tered as poramboke in ryotwari tracts, the Government 

 will be prepared to apply rules framed under section 6 

 (3) of the Indian Fisheries Act, 1897, in particular cases 

 when they are satisfied that such special measures of 

 protection are required either for the protection of 

 particular species of edible fis'n or for the establishment 

 of larvicides in malarial tracts. But the particular 

 waters to which the rules are to be applied must be 

 specified by name, and information must be supplied of 

 the existence of any claim to rights of exclusive, as 

 opposed to common fishery, which if established would 

 constitute any part of such waters, private waters, within 

 the definition in section 3 of the Act. 



5. Mr. Wilson will accordingly be requested to frame 

 draft rules under section 6 (3) of the Act, or to supply the 

 detailed particulars necessary to enable the Government 



