STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 



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15. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to vessels lying alongside 

 private wharves, except sections 7, 8, 11 and 12. 



No. 135. 1892, Newfoundland Statute: Consolidated Statutes 

 (Second Series) 1892, Cap. 124" 



Of the coast fisheries. 



Section. 



1. Herring not to be caught in seines 



between 20th October and 18th 

 April ; Seine, how used. Proviso. 



2. Persons carrying bulk deemed to 



have caught herring contrary to 

 law. 



3. Power of Justices and others to 



board vessels. 



4. Time for use of and size of net. 



5. Herring may be taken at any time 



by Banking vessels for bait. 



6. Penalty for disposing of herring 



except in prosecution of Bank 

 fishery. 



7. Meaning of Bank fishery. 



8. Injuries to nets and seines. 



9. Bait fishes not to be hauled for ex- 



portation between 10th May and 

 20th October in certain places. 



10. No salmon shall be taken at cer- 



tain times. 



11. Salmon unlawfully taken for- 



feited. 



12. No squids shall be taken in seines, 



&c. 



13. Close time for bait fishes. 



Section. 



14. Manufacture of bait fishes into 



manure prohibited. 



15. Throwing over offal, &c., on fish- 



ing grounds prohibited. 



16. Cod-trap mesh regulated to four 



inches. 



17. Regulations as to setting mooring 



cod-traps, &c. 



18. Regulations as to cod-nets, &c. 



19. Further regulations as to cod- 



traps and cod-nets, &c. 



20. Distance between salmon nets. 



21. Recovery of forfeitures and penal- 



ties. 



22. Governor in Council shall appoint 



superintendent of fisheries. 



23. Use of cod-traps prohibited after 



9th May, 1888. 



24. Penalty for violation of section 23. 



25. Penalties in certain cases. 



26. No conviction quashed for infor- 



mality. 



27. Appeal in certain cases. 



28. Treaty rights of foreign nations 



reserved. 



1. No person shall haul, catch or take herrings by or in a seine or 

 other such contrivance, on or near any part of the coast of this colony 

 or its dependencies, or in any of the bays, harbours, or other places 

 therein, at any time between the twentieth day of October in any 

 year, and the eighteenth day of April in the following year, or at 

 any time use a seine or other contrivance for the catching or taking 

 of herring, except by way of shooting and forthwith hauling the 

 same, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars: Provided 

 that nothing herein contained shall prevent the taking of herrings 

 by nets set in the usual and customary manner, and not used for in- 

 barring or enclosing herrings in a cove, inlet or other place. This 

 section shall not apply to the coast of Labrador. 



2. The owners, masters, and other persons managing or controlling 

 vessels conveying herrings in bulk, between the twentieth day of 

 October in any year, and the eighteenth day of April in the follow- 

 ing year, shall be deemed to have hauled, caught or taken such 

 herrings contrary to the provisions of the preceding section of this 

 chapter, unless such owner, master or other person aforesaid shall 

 make proof to the contrary. 



3. Any Justice of the Peace, Sub-collector of the Customs. Pre- 

 ventive Officer, Fishery Warden or Constable, may board any vessel 



a Act now questioned by the United States : see Appendix, pp. 4-5. 



