STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, OEDEBS, ETC. 1291 



14. (As amended.) No person shall kill, catch, take, trap, buy, 

 sell or can, or have in his possession any female lobster carrying 

 spawn, or any lobster less than eight inches in length. 



15. The Department of Marine and Fisheries may refuse at any 

 time to issue a license to any person who has violated one or more of 

 these rules. 



16. The setting of lobster traps before the first day of June, in any 

 year, in the western waters of Placentia Bay, within the undermen- 

 tioned limits, is prohibited, namely, Little Placentia, inside a line 

 drawn from Virgin's Point to North Bill of Isaac's, and Ship Harbor, 

 inside of a line drawn from Dick George's Head to Sparrow's Point. 



17. In the packing of lobsters only fresh boiled lobsters of lawful 

 size shall be used to fill cans. Each whole tin shall contain sixteen 

 ounces of meat, and each half-tin eight ounces. 



18. (As amended.) Every packer or canner of lobsters shall cause 

 to be attached to every can packed by him, a paper label not less than 

 one inch long and three-quarters of an inch wide, which label shall 

 contain, printed in clear and distinct figures, the number correspond- 

 ing to the number of the Lobster License of such packer. The said 

 label shall be attached and pasted on each can firmly and securely. 

 Any person in this Colony selling or purchasing or exporting, or 

 being in any way a party to any transaction in the nature of a sale 

 or purchase or export of any can containing lobsters without such 

 label as above described shall be deemed guilty of an offence against 

 these rules and regulations 



The labels shall be issued, upon application, by the Department of 

 Marine and Fisheries. The cost to be fixed by the Department, and 

 defrayed by the Licensee. 



No labels other than those obtained from the Department of Marine 

 and Fisheries shall be used. 



(Added.) Whenever the Minister or Deputy Minister of Marine 

 and Fisheries has reason to suppose that lobsters are being shipped 

 or disposed of, contrary to the Provisions of these Rules and Regu- 

 lations, the Minister or Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries 

 may cause the cases, packages or other covering in which such lob- 

 sters are packed, to be opened and examined by anyone authorized 

 in writing by the said Minister or Deputy Minister. 



HERRING FISHERY. 



19. Herring may be caught in nets or hauled in seines, and other 

 contrivances, under the conditions and in the manner prescribed by 

 these rules, and not otherwise. 



20. No herring trap shall be used in the waters of the district of 

 Placentia and St. Mary's or Fortune Bay. No purse seine shall be 

 used in the waters of Newfoundland. 



21. Unless otherwise provided, no person shall use a seine for the 

 purpose of catching herring in any of the waters of Newfoundland, 

 except exclusively for bait and for immediate use for that purpose 

 in the fisheries, between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of 

 August in any year. 



22. (As amended.) Barring herring by any method is prohibited 

 in all parts of the waters of Newfoundland, and in every case where 

 p seine is used for the purpose of taking herring, it shall be hauled 



