140 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



COD-FISHINO. 



10. No one shall uso mackerel, herring or caplin seines for taking 

 codfish, and no codfish seine shall be of a loss sized mesh than four 

 inches in extension in the arms, and three inches in the bunt or 

 bottom of the seine. R. S., c. 95, s. 5. 



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POSSESSION OF FISH. 



44. No one shall, without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie 

 on him, buy, sell or possess any fish, or portion of any lish named in 

 this Act, caught or killed at a time or in a manner prohibited by 

 law. R. S.,c. 95, s. 12. 



45. Every customs officer, excise officer, police officer or consta- 

 ble, clerk of a market or other person in charge of any market-place 

 in any village, town or city, shall seize and, upon view, confiscate to 

 his own proper use, any fish mentioned in this Act, caught or killed 

 during prohibited seasons, or which appears to have been killed by 

 unlawful means. 



(2) Every such seizure and appropriation, with the date, place and 

 circumstances thereof, shall together with the name, residence and 

 calling of the person in whose possession such fish was found, be duly 

 reported to the fishery officer who has jurisdiction over the district 

 within which such seizure, confiscation and appropriation took 

 place. R. S., c. 95, s. 12. 



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GENERAL PROHIBITIONS. 



47. No one shall fish for, take, catch or kill fish in any water, or 

 along any beach, or within any fishery limits, described in any lease 

 or license, or place, use, draw or set therein any fishing gear or appa- 

 ratus, except by permission of the occupant under such lease or 

 license for the time being, or shall disturb or injure any fishery: Pro- 

 vided that the occupation of any fishing station or waters so leased 

 or licensed for the express purpose of net fishing shall not interfere 

 with the taking of bait used for cod-fishing, or prevent angling for 

 other purposes than those of trade and commerce. 



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(7) No one shall use a bag-net, trap-net or fish-pound, except 

 under a special license, granted for capturing deep-sea fish other than 

 salmon. 



48. No one shall use purse seines for the capture of fish in any of 

 the waters of Canada: Provided that the Minister may issue special 

 fishery licenses for the use of purse seines in certain waters in the 

 province of British Columbia specified in the said licenses. 3 E. 

 VII., c. 23, s. 2. 



52. Whenever the size of the meshes of nets or apparatus for the 

 t lire of fish is fixed by this Act, or by any fishery regulation under 

 it. it shall be unlawful to so arrange or adapt the nets or fishing appa- 

 ratus as to practically diminish the size of such meshes. 61. V., 

 c. 39, s. 2. 



