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8. That no person shall, except under authority of a fishery lease, fishing 

 license, or permit, fish for, catch or kill any fish in any inland lake, river or 

 stream adjoining the ungranted lands of the Province. 



9. That no person shall, without lawful authority, fish for, catch or kill, by 

 any device or means, any fish during their spawning time, or disturb or destroy 

 their spawn or spawning- beds. 



10. That it shall not be lawful to fish for, catch or kill, brook trout, salmon 

 trout, white fish, bass, pike, pickerel, maskinonge, tulibee, grayling, herring or 

 perch, in any inland lake, river or stream under the control of the Province, by 

 any device or means other than by hook and line or angling, except in waters 

 leased or licensed for the express purpose of net fishing. 



11. That it shall not be lawful to use any explosives, or chemical material, 

 or compound, for the purpose of killing or catching fish. 



12. That fishing by torchlight, or other artificial light, placed in or above 

 the water is prohibited. 



13. That no person shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in possession 

 any fish at times when the taking or killing of fish is prohibited by lawful 

 authority. 



14. That parties holding leases under the provisions of " The Ontario Fishe- 

 ries Act," shall not have any recourse against the Government of the Province for 

 any hindrance to their use and enjoyment of the fishing rights pertaining to the 

 lands leased, by the operation of any law enacted or that may be hereafter, en- 

 acted by the Parliament of Canada, or by any action of the Government of 

 Canada, or any person employed thereunder. 



15. It shall not be lawful to use or set in any of the inland rivers, streams, 

 or water courses within the Province, any net, rack, trap, weir, or obstruction for 

 the purpose of catching fish, or whereby the free passage of fish up and down the 

 same may be obstructed or prevented. 



16. The catching, killing, or molesting of fish when passing or attempting to 

 pass through any fish-way or fish-pass, or in surmounting any obstacle or leaps, 

 the use of any invention to catch, kill or molest fish in the mill-heads, and water- 

 courses appurtenant thereto, are hereby forbidden. 



17. It shall not be lawful to put into any waters in any inland river, stream 

 or lake in the Province where fish are taken, an}^ offal, blood,, putrid brine, putrid 

 fish, or other deleterious substance, and all fish, offal, or filth of any description 

 whatsoever accruing from the catching and curing of fish, shall be burned or 

 buried twenty yards distant from the water's edge of said river, stream or lake 



Close Seasons. 



It shall not be lawful to fish for, catch, kill or have in possession : 

 Speckled Trout, between the 15th September and the 1st May. 

 Pickerel (Dore), between the loth April and loth May. 

 Bass and Maskinong6, between the 15th April and 15th June. 

 White Fish and Salmon Trout, between the 1st November and 

 November. 



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T. B. PARDEE, 

 Commissioner of Crown Lands. 



Department of Crown Lands, 



Toronto, 5th May, 1887. 



