STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1215 



offence against these rules, and shall, upon conviction, be subjected to 

 a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



32. No person shall, with a seine or other contrivance, inbar or 

 enclose the whole of a cove or inlet, and any person shooting seines 

 or other contrivances across from the one side of a cove or inlet to the 

 other, shall so secure such seine or other contrivance as to leave one 

 third of the cove or inlet open for traffic. 



33. No person shall bar herring in waters the bottom of which 

 shall be fetid. 



34. Where any person has commenced to shoot his seine, no person 

 shall place or set any fishing gear, net or other contrivance, within 

 the space such seine is about to encompass. 



35. No net, or other contrivance, shall be placed inside a seine for 

 the purpose of catching herring out of such seine, without the permis- 

 sion of the owner of the seine. 



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

 nets have been previously placed in such position as to prevent the 

 hauling and securing of such seine to the shore, 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, the owner of the seine, or 

 his agent, may remove such nets, or haul the nets shorewards with 

 the seine, but in such case the owner of the seine shall compensate 

 the owners of the nets for any damage done to the nets, and return 

 the quantity, or pay the value, of such herring as may be in the nets. 



37. If in barring herring the seine should be left standing over 

 any gear belonging to a net fisherman, such gear shall not be taken 

 up unless with the consent of the owner of the seine or his agent, but 

 in such case the owner of the seine shall within six hours thereafter 

 return such nets or pay the owner the value thereof. 



38. In the shooting of seines the first person who throws out his 

 rope and shoots, and continues to shoot his seine shall be entitled to 

 the sweep, and any person obstructing or preventing such person from 



so shooting shall be guilty of an offence against these rules. 

 720 39. In case two seines shall be shot at the same time, and 

 one shall be inside the other, and the herring be taken in both 

 seines, the catch shall belong equally to both owners, but in case her- 

 ring be taken in only one seine, the owner of the other seine shall have 

 no claim to any portion of the catch. 



40. In case two seiners shall shoot their seines at the same time, 

 so as to form one circle, and neither secures his catch separately, the 

 catch shall be divided. 



41. When herring has been removed from a seine, such seine shall, 

 within six hours thereafter, be taken out of the water, provided the 

 weather does not interfere with such removal, and in case such empty 

 seine interferes with the mooring or operations of any other seine, 

 such empty seine shall be forthwith removed by the owner. 



42. Any person interfering with or obstructing the owner of a 

 seine in the hauling or tucking thereof, or by rowing, or making any 

 kind of noise, or otherwise wilfully frightening herring from a seine, 

 shall be guilty of an offence against these rules, and shall on convic- 

 tion be subject to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars. 



43. No person shall set any net so close to any seine as to stand 

 over the mooring of such seine, and no person shall set his nets in 

 such manner as to submerge the nets of any other person. 



