STATUTES, PKOCLAMATIONS, KULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1157 



and the owner or person using the same shall be subject to the penalties pre- 

 scribed by the Fisheries Act. 



3. All boats fishing for oysters shall have a registration number correspond- 

 ing with that of the license legibly marked or painted on the bow of the boat, in 

 white coloured letters on a black ground, and the initial letter of the port to 

 which such boat belongs, such letters to be at least eight inches in length. 



4. Oysters shall not be fished for, caught, killed, bought, sold or had in 

 possession from the 1st day of April to the 30th day of September, both days 

 inclusive, in each year. 



5. Fishing for oysters or any other shell fish through the ice is prohibited. 



6. No person shall fish for, catch, kill or buy, sell or have in possession any 

 round oysters of a less size than three inches in diameter of shell, nor any long 

 oysters measuring less than three and a half inches of outer shell. 



Round oysters of a less size than three inches in diameter, and long oysters 

 measuring less than three and a half inches on the outer shell, and that may 

 be accidentally caught, shall be returned to the water alive at the cost and 

 risk of the person so fishing, on whom, in every case, shall devolve the proof 

 of actual liberation. 



Provided always that persons holding fishery licenses, may obtain from the 

 Minister of Marine and Fisheries, permission to fish for and catch small oysters 

 for the purpose of planting or stocking oyster beds. 



7. Fishing for oysters is prohibited on Sunday, and from sunset to sunrise on 

 any other day of the week. 



8. (a) No person shall dig mussel mud within 200 yards from any live oyster 

 bed, and then only at such place or places as may be prescribed in writing by a 

 fishery officer. 



(6) No person shall dig mussel mud in Trout River, Prince County, Prince 

 Edward Island, excepting above a line drawn from Peter Miller's Middle Point 

 to a point of land at the end of Yeo's Portage Road. 



(c) No person shall dig mussel mud in Bideford River, Prince County, Prince 

 Edward Island, excepting above a line drawn from Bideford Shipyard to Colin 

 McKay's Point, including Pawes Creek. 



9. The use of rakes for the purpose of taking oysters on any beds prepared 

 or planted by the Department of Marine and Fisheries, is prohibited. 



10. The use, for taking oysters on oyster-beds, of qnahaug rakes, tongs oper- 

 ated by purchase power, or tongs or rakes other than the ordinary ones now 

 in use in oyster-fishing in the Provinces of Prince Edward Island and New 

 Brunswick, is prohibited. 



11. All the waters of York or North River, Queen's County, Prince Edward 

 Island, included between the bridge from Poplar Island to the west shore on 

 the said river and a due east and west line drawn from the mouth of Forkey 

 Creek to the opposite shore, are hereby set apart for the natural and artificial 



propagation of oysters. 

 684 12. All the waters of Big Tracadie Harbour lying east of a line drawn 



due north and south (true) across the narrowest part of the entrance 

 of the West Arm, situated at Tracadie, in the County of Antigonish, in the 

 Province of Nova Scotia, are hereby set apart for the natural and artificial 

 propagation of oysters. 



13. All the waters of Shediac Harbour, extending from a line drawn south, 

 67 west (due west magnetic) from Mr. Petitpas' house on Shediac Island, to 

 Mr. Wilbur's tannery, on the north side of Wilbur's Cove, southwardly to a 

 line drawn from the south extremity of Snake Point, 50 7' 30" west (west 

 by south ^ south magnetic) to the corner of Moncton road, the points where 

 the boundary lines above described cut the high water on shore being marked 

 in each case by a square cedar post, inscribed O. R., and the whol? including 

 below low water mark an area of 980 acres, be the same more or less. 



And all the waters of Shediac harbour extending from a straight line drawn 

 sooth 60 19' east, between the station established on the south shore of 

 Shediac island, at its mouth, being the point of Shediac island (this being the 

 north limit of the said reserve) and the north boundary of the reserve set 

 apart by the next preceding paragraph, the whole containing an area of 482 

 acres, more or less. 



SEC. 7. Quahaug or hard-shell clams. 



1. No one shall fish for or catch hard-shell clams or quahaugs without a 

 license from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. The fee on each such 

 license shall be one dollar per season. 



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