1162 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



(/) The Rivers Patapedia and Tomkedgewick, with their tributaries, are set 

 apart for the propagation of fish. 



(g) Mowat's Lake, aud the salmon fishing stations off Tadousac, known as 

 the Point Rouge, Petites lies and Bark Cove fisheries, in the County of Chicou- 

 timi and Saguenay, in the Province of Quebec, used and fished in connection 

 with the Government Fish Hatchery at Tadousac, shall be and the same are 

 hereby set apart for the natural and artificial propagation of fish. 



SEC. 17. Qiiahaugs or Hard-shell Clams. 

 (See General Fishery Regulations.) 



SEC. 18. Salmon. (See also Fisheries act.) 



1. Salmon shall not be fished for, caught or killed from the 31st day of July 

 to the 1st day of May, in the province of Quebec : Provided always that it shall 

 be lawful to fish for, catch and kill salmon with a rod and line, in the manner 

 known as fly-surface fishing, from the 1st day of February to the 15th day of 

 August, in each year, both days inclusive. 



Provided that fishing for and killing salmon with a rod and line in the 

 manner known as fly surface fishing, on the north shore of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, east of, but not including the Natashquan River; in the Rimouski 

 River, Murray River, River du Gouffre, and in the Jacques Cartier River. 

 Portneuf County, shall be permitted from the 1st day of February to the 31 st 

 day of August, both days inclusive, in each year. 



2. From the time of low water nearest six o'clock in the afternoon of every 

 Saturday to the time of law water nearest six o'clock in the forenoon of every 

 Monday no one shall fish for, catch or kill salmon in tidal waters. 



3. In non-tidal waters frequented by salmon no one shall fish for, catch or 

 kill salmon, or any other fish, between nine o'clock in the evening of every Sat- 

 urday and six o'clock on the following Monday morning. 



SEC. 19. Smelts. 



1. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in possession any Smelts 

 from the 1st day of April to the 30th day of June, both days inclusive, in each 

 year. 



2. Smelts shall not be fished for, caught nor killed by means of any kind of 

 bag-nets having meshes of a less size than one inch and a quarter, extension 

 measure. 



3. The use of bag-nets for the purpose of catching Smelts is prohibited, except 

 under special license from the Minister of Markie and Fisheries or frojn some 

 duly authorized officer of the Government of the Province of Quebec, and then 

 only from the 1st day of December to the 15th day of February in each year, 

 both days inclusive. 



4. The use of Seines for the purpose of catching Smelts is prohibited. 



(a) Provided that seining for smelts may be carried on from the 1st day of 

 October until the close of navigation in each year within the limits of the 

 County of Gaspg and within such portion or portions of the County of Bona- 

 venture as are without railway communication; provided always that such 

 localities as may from time to time become connected with the railway system 

 of Canada shall be amenable to the regulations now in force covering smelt 

 fishing in the Dominion. 



(6) Provided further that bag-net fishing for smelts shall be and the same 

 is hereby prohibited within the above-mentioned limits, under the same condi- 

 tions and subject to the same proviso as regards the extension of railway com- 

 munication as above set forth; such prohibition to be removed from localities 

 where the privilege of seining ceases by reason of incidental railway commu- 

 nication. 



688 (c) Also provided that seining for smelts from the 1st October to the 

 close of navigation in each year may be conducted on that part of the 

 coast of the County of Saguenay which extends from Bersimis to Xatashquan, 

 under special permit from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 



SEC. 20. Sturgeon. 



1. The use of bare, unbaited hooks, grapnels or spears for the capture of 

 sturgeon is prohibited. 



