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FISHERIES ACT ONTARIO, 1885. 



Provides for leasing and managing such fisheries as may he under Provin- 

 cial Legislative control. No close seasons specified in body of Act. No protective 

 clauses except that Commissioner of Crown Lands may authorize lands to he set 

 apart for artificial propagation. 



Regulations under the Act • — Leases. Leases of fishing rights on Crown 

 Lands shall extend one chain back from water. 



Permits or licenses granted on fees to be set by Commissioner of Crown 

 Lands, and valid till close of angling season. 



Excessive or wasteful fishing ; — penalty — ^cancellation of lease. 



Persons not domiciled in Province cannot take fish without permits from 



Commissioner of Crown Lands. 



No Person except under lease, license, or permit, shall catch fish in water 

 adjoining ungranted Crown Lands. 



Spawning Fish and spawning beds not to be molested except by legal 

 authority. 



Unlawful to fish for or catch, in ungranted water, brook trout, salmon 

 trout, whitefish, bass, pike, pickerel, maskinonge, tulibee, gayling, herring, or perch 

 otherwise than by angling, except in waters leased for net-fishing. 



Explosives, chemicals, etc., prohibited from use in killing fish. 



Artificial Light and torch light fishing prohibited. 



During Close Seasons set by lawful authority, the taking and possession 

 of fish are forbidden. 



No Obstruction by net. trap, weir, or otherwise shall be offered to free 

 passage of fish up or down stream. 



Fishways to be in no manner obstructed or resorted to for fishing pur- 

 poses. 



Offal of no sort to be put in water but to be burned twenty yards inland 



CLOSE SEASONS. 



Speckled trout Close loth Sept. to 1st May next. 



Pickerel (dore) " 1.5th April to 15th May 



Bass, Maskinonge " 15th April to 15th June 



Whitefish, Salmon trout " 1st Nov. to 30tn Dec. 



DOMINION LAW. 



(CAP 95, 1886. SEC 15.) 



Lime, Chemical Substances, or drugs, poisonous matter, dead or decaj'- 

 ing fish, or any other deleterious substance, shall not be thrown into or 

 allowed to pass into any water. Penalty $100, but the Minister of Marine may 

 make exceptions in public interest. 

 21 (c). 



