18 LAWS EELATING TO INLAND FISHEEIES. 



of inland fisheries thereof for the cultivation of fish except at such 

 times and in such manner as is hereinafter provided. 



Sec. 2. Section 7 of said chapter 137 of the General Statutes of 

 this state is so far amended as to allow the catching of fish through 

 the ice only and with hook and hand line only, in those ponds set 

 apart for the cultivation of black bass during the months of Decem- 

 ber, January and -February of each and every year from the passage 

 of this act, until the expiration of the three years mentioned in sec- 

 tion 7 of said chapter. 



Sec. 3. (As amended by chapter 539, passed April 19, 1876.) Af- 

 ter the expiration of said three years, no black bass shall be taken in 

 any waters of this state, from the first day of March to the fifteenth 

 day of July, and only by hook and line as aforesaid. 



Sec. 4. After the expiration of said three years, no fish shall be 

 taken by any person from any waters legally set apart by said com- 

 missioners for the cultivation of shad or salmon, or within one mile 

 of the outlet of the streams so set apart except from and after the fif- 

 teenth day of April until the fifteenth day of July of each and every 

 year, nor at any time except by hook and hand line, or by not less 

 than three inch mesh nets or seine or seines. 



Sec. 5. No person shall take any fish from any of the waters of 

 this state legally set apart for the cultivation of fish during the times 

 allowed to be taken by this act except on Thursdays, Fridays and Sat- 

 urdays during said term, except the months of December, January 

 and February. 



Sec. 6. Nothing in this act shall prevent the commissioners of 

 inland fisheries from taking fish from any of said waters as is now 

 permitted by section 9 of chapter 137 of the General Statutes. 



Sec. 7. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act 

 shall be subject to the penalties for catching fish as imposed by section 

 5 of said chapter 137, of which this act is an amendment. 



Sec. 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby 

 repealed. 



Sec. 9. This act shall take effect immediately on and after its 

 passage. 



