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passage to and from accustomed resorts for spawning and the 

 increasing of their species. 



6. No one shall catch, kill or molest fish when passing or attempt- 

 ing to pass through any fish-way, or fish-pass, or in surmounting 

 any obstacle or leap, or shall use any invention to catch, kill or molest 

 fish in the mill-dams, fish-ways, mill-heads or watercourses appur- 

 tenant thereto. 



7. No one shall use a bag-net, trap-net or fish-pound, except under 

 a special license, granted for capturing deep-sea fish other than 

 salmon. 



8. No one shall fish for, catch or kill salmon, trout or lunge of 

 any kind, maskinonge, winaniche, bass, barfish, pickerel, whitefish, 

 herring, or shad, by means of spear, grapnel hooks, negog, or nisha- 

 gans: Provided that the Minister may appropriate and license or 

 lease certain waters in which certain Indians shall be allowed to 

 catch fish for their own use in the manner and at the time specified 

 in the license or lease, and may permit spearing in certain localities. 



9. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or possess the young of 

 any of the fish mentioned in this Act, or in any regulation under it. 



10. Seines for barfish shall have meshes of not less than three 

 inches in extension measure. 



11. Fishery officers may determine or prescribe the distance be- 

 tween each and every fishery (pecherie) and shall forthwith remove 

 any fishery which the owner neglects or refuses to remove; and such 

 owner shall be moreover liable for a violation of this Act, and for the 

 cost and damages of removing such fishery. 



12. Every fascine fishery with a box-trap (coffre), instead of 

 pound, shall have across the outside end of such box-trap a wire cov- 

 ering or a net work, the meshes of which shall be at least one inch 

 square; but this shall not apply to eel weirs during autumn. 



13. Nets or other fishing apparatus shall not be so used as to 

 impede or divert the course of fish in any small river. 



641 14. From the time of low water nearest six of the clock in 



the afternoon of every Saturday, to the time of low water near- 

 est six Of the clock in the forenoon of every Monday, in tidal waters 

 and from six of the clock in the afternoon of every Saturday to six 

 of the clock in the forenoon of the following Monday, in non-tidal 

 waters, all sedentary fishing stations and weirs, and all pound and 

 trap-nets, seines, gill-nets and other aparatus used for catching fish 

 whether under license or not, shall be so raised, closed or adapted as 

 to admit of the free passage of fish through, by or out of such appa- 

 ratus; and during such close time no one shall catch fish in such 

 apparatus, whether under license or not. 



15. No one shall hunt or kill fish or marine animals of any kind 

 other than porpoises, w T hales, and walruses, by means of rockets' 

 explosive materials, or explosive projectiles or shells. R. S., c 95' 

 s. 14; 61 V., c. 39, s. 1 ; 3 E. VII., c. 23, s. 1. 



48. No one shall use purse seines for the capture of fish in any of 

 the waters of Canada ; Provided that the Minister may issue special 

 fishery licenses for the use of purse seines in certain waters in the 

 province of British Columbia specified in the said licenses. 3 E 

 VII., c. 23, s. 2. 



49. No one shall erect, use or maintain in any of the waters of 

 Canada whether subject to any exclusive right of fishery or not, any 



