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8. No one shall anchor near the shore in such a manner as to 
impede the throwing and hauling of seines, or the setting of standing 
nets. — Ihid. s. 12. 
9. No one shall set standing nets in such a manner as to impede 
the throwing or the hauling of seines. — Ihid. s. 13. 
10. No one shall set seines or nets in such a manner as to impede 
the navigation or anchorage in any bay, harbor or roadstead, or other 
place required for navigation — Ihid. s. 14. 
20. No one shall fish for, catch or kill salmon in any way what- 
ever, between the first day of August and the first day of March in 
any year ; except only that it shall be lawful to fish for salmon with 
a rod and line, in the manner known as fly-surface-fishing, from the 
first of March to the first of September in any year, in Upper or 
Lower Canada. — Ihid. s. 24. 
21. No one shall use any net, or take salmon in any way what- 
ever, at any salmon-leap, or where any artificial salmon pass shall 
have been constructed, nor in any pools or ponds where salmon are 
wont to spawn. — Ihid. s. 25. 
22. Whoever obstructs the main channel or course of an-y river, 
either by placing therein nets or fishing apparatus of any kind, or 
any obstacles of any kind whatever, for the purpose of taking salmon 
or any other species of fish, shall thereby incur for each ofience a 
fine not exceeding twenty dollars, and the forfeiture of his fishing 
apparatus; and in no case shall the said channel or course so left 
open be less than one-third of the whole breadth of such river. — 
Ihid. s. 26. 
23. The owner of any dam or slide where fish may ascend, shall, 
for the purpose of aftording a passage to the fish, attach and main- 
tain to each dam or slide, a fishway of such form and dimensions as 
shall be determined by the Superintendent of Fisheries, under a 
penalty of four dollars for each day on which he shall fail so to do 
after two months' notice by the superintendent. — Ihid. s. 27. 
-24. Any salmon taken in contravention of the twentieth section 
of this act, shall subject all parties concerned in the breach of the 
said section, whether the actual transgressors or accessories, to a 
penalty of not more than forty dollars, nor less than twenty dollars, 
together with the forfeiture of the fish, canoe, boat or other vessel 
in which the fish may have been placed, or to imprisonment for a 
period of not more than six months, nor less than three months, — 
Ihid. s. 28. 
25. The meshes of any net used for the taking of salmon shall not 
be less than five inches in extension, knot to knot, under penalty 
and on pain of forfeiture of the nets. — Ihid. s. 29. 
26. No one shall fish with any net or seine whatever, of a less 
sized mesh than one and a half inches on the square, in any lake, 
river or bay, or in any of the waters of Upper Canada. — Ihid. s. 30. 
27. No one shall fish for, catch or kill any kind of trout in any 
