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13. Foul or unclean salmon shall not be, at any time, caught or 

 killed. R. S., c. 95, s. 8. 



14. Salmon fry, parr and smelt shall not at any time, be fished for, 

 caught or killed, and no salmon or grilse of less weight than three 

 pounds shall be caught or killed : Provided that no penalty shall at- 

 tach if such fish are caught by accident in nets lawfully used for other 

 fish, and if they are liberated alive, at the cost and risk of the owner 

 of the fishery, on whom, in every case, the proof of such actual libera- 

 tion shall devolve. R. S., c. 95, s. 8. 



15. Meshes of nets used for capturing salmon shall be at least five 

 inches in extent, and nothing shall be done to practically diminish 

 their size. R. S., c. 95, s. 8. 



16. The use of nets or other apparatus for the capture of salmon 

 shall be confined to tidal water, and any fishery officer may determine 

 the length and place of each net or other apparatus used in any of 

 the waters of Canada. 



2. No one shall fish for or catch salmon with swing nets in any 

 waters of Canada. 52 V., c. 24, s. 1. 



17. The Minister, or any fishery officer duly authorized, shall have 

 power to define the tidal boundary of the estuary fishing for the pur- 

 poses of this Act. R. S., c. 95, s. 8. 



638 18. All nets, or other lawful appliances for the capture of 

 salmon, shall be placed at distances of not less than two hun- 

 dred and fiftv yards apart, without intermediate fishing materials 

 of any kind being set or used in and about any other part of the 

 stream. R. S., c. 95, s. 8. 



19. No one shall drift for salmon, except when under license in the 

 provinces of New Brunswick and British Columbia. 



2. In the province of British Columbia drifting with salmon nets 

 shall be confined to tidal waters. 



3. Drift nets for salmon shall be so set or used as not to obstruct 

 more than one-third of the width of any river. 57-58 V., c. 51, s. 2. 



20. Any fishery officer may direct, either in writing or orally on 

 sight, that a greater space than two thousand and fifty yards shall 

 be left between salmon nets, or other fishing apparatus, and may 

 prescribe their dimensions and extension; but gill or float nets shall 

 not be used to lengthen, extend or enlarge any other kind of fishery. 

 R. S., c. 95, s. 8. 



21. No salmon shall be captured within two hundred yards of the 

 mouth of any tributary, creek or stream which salmon frequent to 

 spawn. R. S., c. 95, s. 8. 



22. Except in the manner known as fly-surface-fishing with a rod 

 and line, salmon shall not be fished for, caught or killed at any arti- 

 ficial pass or salmon leap, or in any pool where salmon spawn. R. S., 

 c. 95, s. 8. 



23. Except under the authority and for the special purpose pro- 

 vided for in this Act, no one shall take, buy, sell, destroy, use or 

 possess any salmon roe, or injure any spawning bed. R. S., c. 95, s. 8. 



TROUT AND WHITEFI8H FISHERY. 



24. In the province of Ontario, no person shall fish for, catch, kill, 

 buy, sell, or have in his possession, 



(a) any speckled trout, salrno fontinalis, between the fifteenth day 

 of September and the first day of May ; or. 



