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10. The provisions of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1876, which empower a board of conservators to alter the period 

 during which it shall be illegal to take or kill trout in any fishery district, shall extend to char, and the fourth 

 section of that Act shall be construed and have effect as if the words "or char" followed the word "trout" in that 

 section. 



11. (i.) In this section the term "freshwater fish" includes all kinds of fish (other than pollan, trout, and char) 



which live in fresh water, except those kinds which migrate to or from the open sea: 

 (2.) The period between the fifteenth day of March and the fifteenth day of June, both inclusive, shall be a 



close season for freshwater fish : 

 (3.) If any person during this close season fishes for, catches, or attempts to catch or kill any freshwater fish in 

 any river, lake, tributary, stream, or other water connected or communicating with such river, he shall, on 

 summary conviction before two justices, be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings: 

 Nothing in this sub-section shall apply — 



('/.) To the owner of any several or private fishery where trout, char, or grayling are specially 

 preserved destroying within such fishery any freshwater fish other than grayling; 



(//.) To any person angling in any several fishery with the leave of the owner of such fishery or in 

 any public fishery under the jurisdictiim of a board of conservators with the leave of said board; 

 (c.) To any person taking freshwater fish for scientific purposes; 

 id!) To any person taking freshwater fish for use as bait: 

 ;+.) If any person during this close season buys, sells, or exposes for sale, or has in his possession for sale, 

 any fresh-water fish, he shall, on summary conviction before two justices, be liable to a fine not exceeding 

 forty shillings: 

 (5.) On a second or any subsequent conviction under this section the person convicted shall be liable to a 



fine not exceeding five pounds: 

 (6.) After every conviction under this section the person or persons convicted shall forfeit all fish so caught, 

 bought, sold, exposed for sale, or in possession for sale, and shall be liable, at the discretion of the 

 convicting justices, to the forfeiture of all instruments used in the taking of such fish: 

 (7.) A board of conservators appointed under the Salmon Fishery Acts, 1861 to 1876, or under this Act, may, 

 as regards any or all kinds of freshwater fish, with the approval of the Secretary of State, exempt the 

 whole or any part of their district from the operation of the first, second, and third sub-sections of this 

 section. The exemptions shall be advertised in such manner as the Secretary of State shall direct: 

 (8.) The provisions of the Salmon Fishery Acts, 1861 to 1876, as to legal proceedings, off'ences, and penalties 

 under those Acts, shall apply to legal proceedings, ofl'ences, and penalties under this section. 



12. The Fisheries (Dvnamite) Act, 1877, which prohibits the use of dynamite or other explosive substance for 

 the catching or destruction of fish in a public fishery, shall apply to the use of any such substance for the catching 

 or destruction of fish in any water, whether public or private, within the limits of this Act. 



13. So much of the Act of Parliament made and passed in the eighteenth 3-ear of the reign of King George the 

 Third, chapter thirty-three, intituled "An Act for the better preservation of fish and regulating the fisheries in the 

 River Severn and Verniew," as prohibits any person or persons in the months of June or July laying, drawing, 

 making use of, or fishing within the said rivers, or either of them, with any net the meshes whereof shall be under 

 two inches and a half square by the standard, and not extended, or ten inches round, allowing to each mesh four 

 knots, is hereby repealed. 



