11)8 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, 1879, CHAPTER 102. 

 OF THE COAST FISHERIES. 



I. 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, harbors, or other places 

 therein, at any time between the 20th day of October and the 25th 

 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 inbarring or inclosing her- 

 rings in a cove, inlet, or other place. 



II. 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, harbors, 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 

 single net of legal-size mesh. 



III. No person shall willfully 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, harbors, 

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

 such seine or net. 



IV. No person shall, between the 20th day of May 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 Ray; and any person so hauling, catching 

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

 tice, 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 per- 

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

 section of this chapter. 



V. 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 water-course, above where the tide usually 

 rises and falls, or in any pond or lake. 



VI. No stake, seine, weir, or other contrivance for taking salmon, 

 except nets set or placed across, shall be set or placed in any river, 

 stream, cove, lake, or watercourse. No net shall extend more than 

 one-third of the distance in a straight line across, and all nets shall be 

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



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

 traingate, or other erection or barrier in or across any river, stream, 

 cove, lake, or Avatercourse, so as to obstruct the free passage of salmon, 

 grilse, par, trout, or other fish resorting thereto, for the purpose of 

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



