202 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



HERRING FISHERY. 



10. Herring may be caught in nets or hauled in seines, and other 

 contrivances, under the conditions and in the manner prescribed by 

 these rules, and not otherwise. 



20. No herring trap shall be used in the waters of the district of 

 Placentia and St. Mary's or Fortune Bay. No purse seine shall be 

 used in the waters of Newfoundland. 



21. Unless otherwise provided, no person shall use a seine for the 

 purpose of catching herring in any of the waters of Newfoundland, 

 except exclusively for bait and for immediate use for that purpose in 

 the fisheries, between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of August 

 in any year. 



l'l'. (As amended.) Barring herring by any method is prohibited in 

 all parts of the waters of Newfoundland, and in every case when a 

 seine is used for the purpose of taking herring, it shall be hauled and 

 tucked forthwith into the boat or boats, and not from the shore or 

 strand, except when wanted exclusively for bait. 



23. No person shall catch or take herring in a seine between the 

 hours of twelve o'clock on Saturday night and twelve o'clock on 

 Sunday night, under a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



24. In the district or Twilhngate the use of herring traps is for- 

 bidden. The use of seines or other contrivance, save stationary nets, 

 for the capture of herring, is prohibited in the waters of Gut Arm, 

 Toogood's Arm, Golsen's Arm, Pike's Arm, and Cobb's Arm, in the 

 vicinity of Herring Neck; and in Friday Bay from Lobster Harbor 

 west to Muddy Cove, Tizzard's Harbor, and from thence inside a 

 straight line to Moor's Point; provided that herring may be taken at 

 any time and by any means for bait purposes and for immediate use 

 for these purposes in the fisheries. 



25. No herring seine or herring trap shall be used for the purpose 

 of taking herring on that part of the coast from Cape LaHune on the 

 West Coast, and running by the West and North through the Straits 

 of Belle Isle to Cape John. 



26. No person shall use a seine for the purpose of catching herring 

 in the waters of Placentia Bay, except exclusively for bait, and for 

 immediate use for that purpose in the fisheries, between the 1st day 

 of March and the 31st day of May in any year, in those portions of 

 the waters of Placentia Bay which are enclosed by a line drawn from 

 Placentiaman's Point, on the mainland, to Maggoty Cove Point in 

 Sound Island, and by a line drawn from Sound Island Point, on the 

 Southern side of Sound Island, to Hardy's Cove, Woody Island to 

 the Western Point, and thence in a straight line to LaPlante on the 

 mainland. All vessels coming to Sound Island for the purpose of 

 catching or purchasing herring shall remain at anchor below the 

 North-Eastern point of Sound Island (Bloody Point). 



27. In case a seine has been shot around a shoal of herring, and 

 nets have been placed in such a position as to prevent the hauling of 

 such seine, the owner of such nets shall remove his nets on demand 

 of the seine owner or his agent; and if the owner of the nets be not 

 present, or shall refuse to remove such nets when required, the owner 

 of the seine or his agent may remove such nets, or haul the nets shore- 

 ward with the seine, but in such case the owner of the seine shall com- 



