OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 141 



INJURIES TO FISHING GROUNDS AND POLLUTION OF RIVERS. 



53. No one shall throw overboard ballast, coal ashes, stones, or 

 other prejudicial or deleterious substances in any river, harbour or 

 roadstead or any water where fishing is carried on, or throw over- 

 board or let fall upon any fishing bank or ground, or leave or deposit 

 or cause to be thrown, left or deposited, upon the shore, beach or bank 

 of any water, or upon the beach between high and low water mark, 

 inside of any tidal estuary, or within two hundred yards of the mouth 

 of any salmon river, remains or offal of fish, or of marine animals, or 

 leave decayed or decaying fish in any net or other fishing apparatus: 

 Provided that such remains or offal may be buried ashore, beyond 

 high water mark, and that at establishments situated inside of the 

 mouths of rivers for carrying on deep-sea fisheries, the same may be 

 dropped into perforated boxes or inclosures built upon the beach, or 

 under stage-heads, in such manner as to prevent the same from being 

 floated or < I rifted into the streams, or may be disposed of in such other 

 manner as any fishery officer prescribes. 



(2) Xo person shall cause or knowingly permit to pass into, or put 

 or knowingly permit to be put, lime, chemical substances or drugs, 

 poisonous matter, dead or decaying fish, or remnants thereof, mill 

 rubbish or sawdust or any other deleterious substance, in any water 

 frequented by any of the kinds of fish mentioned in this Act. R. S., 

 c. 95, s. 15; 58-59 V., c. 27, s. 1. 



REGULATIONS. 



54. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make regu- 

 lations, — 



(a) for the better management and regulation of the sea coast and 

 inland fisheries; 



(b) to prevent or remedy the obsl ruction and pollution of streams; 

 (c.i to regulate and prevent fishing; 



to prohibit the destruction of fish; and, 

 (e) to forbid fishing except under authority of leases or licenses. 



(2) Such regulations shall take effect from the date of the publi- 

 cation thereof in the Canada Gazette, and shall have the same force 

 and effect ;is if herein enacted, notwithstanding that such regulations 

 extend, vary or alter any of the provisions of this Act respecting the 

 places or modes of fishing or the times specified as prohibited or close 



Seasons, and may fix such other modes, times and places as are deemed 



hv the Governor in Council adapted to different localities, or other- 

 w ise e cpedient. 



(3) Every offence against any regulation made under this Act 



may be stated as in violation of i his Act . R. S., c. 95, s. 1 6. 



POWERS <>i FISHER! OFFICERS wnoii i: JUSTICES. 



."».",. Any fishery officer or other justice of the peace may, on view, 

 convict of any of the offences punishable under the provisions of this 

 Let, and may remove instantly and detain anj materials unlawfully 



in use. K. S., •'. 95, s. 17. 



oil. Any fishery officer or other justice of die peace ma} search, or 

 grant a warrant to search, any vessel or place where there is reason 



