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CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, 1872, CHAPTER 102. 

 OF THE COAST FISHERIES. 



1. No person shall haul, catch, or take herrings by, or in, a seine or 

 other such contrivance on or near any part of the coast of this Colony 

 or of its dependencies, or in any of the bays, harbours, or other places 

 therein, at any time between the 20th day of October and the 12th 

 day of April in any year, or at any time use a seine or other contriv- 

 ance for the catching and taking of herrings, except by way of shoot- 

 ing and forthwith 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 her- 

 rings in a cove, inlet, or other place. 



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

 and the 1st day of April in any year, use any net to haul, catch, or 

 take herrings on or near the coasts of this Colony or of its dependen- 

 cies, or in any bays, harbours, or other places therein, having the 

 mokes, meshes, or scales of such net less than two inches and three- 

 eighths of an inch at least, or having any false or double bottom of 

 any description; nor shall any person put any net, though of legal 

 size mesh, upon or behind any other net not of such size mesh, for the 

 purpose of catching or taking such herring or herring fry passing a 

 -ingle net of legal size mesh. 



3. No person shall wilfully remove, destroy, or injure any lawful 

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

 coast of this Colony or its dependencies, or any of the bays, harbours, 

 or other places therein, or remove, let loose, or take any fish from 

 sueli Beine or net. 



4. No person shall, between the 20th day of April and the 20th 

 day of October in any year, haul, catch, or take herrings or other bait 

 for exportation, within one mile, measured by the shore or across the 

 water, of any settlement situate between Cape Chapeau Rouge and 

 Point Enragee, near Cape Kay; and any person so hauling, catching, 

 or taking, within the said limits, may be examined on oath by a 

 Justice, officer of Customs, or person commissioned for the purpose, 

 as to whether the herrings or other bait are intended for exportation 

 or otherwise, and on refusal to answer or answering untruly, such 

 person shall, on conviction, be subject to the provisions of the twelfth 

 seel ion of this chapter. 



5. No person shall, by spearing or sweeping with nets or seines, 

 take or attempt to take, any salmon, grilse, par, or trout, in any bay, 

 river, stream, cove, or watercourse, above where the tide usually 



rises and falls, or in any pond or lake. 



c. \'o stake, seine, weir, or other contrivance For taking salmon, 



except net- 36 i m plaeed across, shall he set or plaeed ill any l'i\el\ 

 stream, COVe, lake, or watercourse. \o net shall extend more than 



one-third of the distance In a -t raighl line across, and all nets shall be 



set only on one aide of such river, stream, cove, lake, or watercourse. 



7. No person shall construct any mill-dam, weir, rack, frame, 



tram gate, or other erection or harrier in cu* across anj river, stream, 



COVe, lake, or w a t ere. >u r-r , SO as to ol»||'ilet the free parage of sal- 

 mon, grilse, par, trout, or other fish resorting thereto for the pi up 



of spawning; and all mill-danis or other erections placed on, over, 



or across any watercourse, river, or Btream, resorted to by fish for 



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