COLONY OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 



STATUTES. 



ACT OF MARCH 27, 1862. 



(25 Vict., cap. 2.) 



AN ACT For the Protection of the Herring and Salmon Fisheries on the roast of this 



Island, and for other Purposes. 



Whereas the breed and fry of herrings frequenting the coast of this 

 island and the Labrador are often found to be greatly injured and 

 destroyed by the using of seines and nets of too small size or mesh, and 

 by other unwarrantable practices; and whereas complaints have been 

 preferred to the local Government of alleged depredations committed 

 by the fishermen frequenting these coasts upon each other: for rem- 

 edy whereof, 



Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor, Legislative Council, and 

 Assembly, in Session convened: — 



I. That no person shall haul, catch, or take herrings in any seine, 

 on or near any part of the coast of this island, or of its dependencies on 

 the coast of Labrador, or in any of the bays, harbours, or any other 

 places therein, at any time between the 20th day of October and the 

 1 21 h day of April in any year; and no person shall, on or near the coast 

 of this island or of its dependencies aforesaid on the coast of Labrador, 

 or in any of the bays, harbours, or other places therein, at any time, 

 iim' a seine or other contrivance for the catching and taking of herrings, 

 except by way of shooting, and forthwith tucking and hauling the 

 same : Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the taking 

 of herrings by nets set in the usual and customary manner, and not 

 used for in-barring or inclosing herrings in any cove, inlet, or other 

 place. 



I I . No person shall, at any time between the 20th day of December 

 and the 1st day of April in any year, haul, catch, or take any herring on 

 or near the const of this island or of its dependencies aforesaid on the 

 Labrador, or in any of the bays, harbours, or any other places therein, 

 in any net having the meshes, mokes, or scales of less than two inches 

 and three-eighths of an inch, at least, from knot to knot, or having 

 any false or double bottom of any description; nor shall any person 

 put any net , t hough of legal size of mesh, upon or behind any ot her net 

 not of such size of mesh, for the purpose of catching or taking the li\ 

 of such herring passing through any single net of two inches and three- 

 eighths of nil inch mesh or scale. 



III. No per-,. in shall wilfully remove, destroy, or injure an\ lawful 

 net or seine, the property of another, set or floating on or near the 

 coasts of this island or of its dependencies aforesaid on the Labrador, 

 or in any of the hays, harbours, or other places therein, nor remove, 

 let loose, or take any fish from or out of any such lawful net or seine. 



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