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and tucked forthwith into the boat or boats, and not from the shore 

 or strand, except when wanted exclusively for bait. 



23. No person shall catch or take herring in a seine between the 

 hours of twelve o'clock on Saturday night and twelve o'clock on 

 Sunday night, under a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



24. In the district or Twillingate the use of herring traps is for- 

 bidden. The use of seines or other contrivance, save stationary nets, 

 for the capture of herring, is prohibited in the waters of (iut Arm. 

 Too-Good ? s Arm, Golsen's Arm. Pike's Arm. and Cobb's Arm. in the 

 vicinity of Herring Neck; and in Friday Bay from Lobster Harbor 

 west to Muddy Cove, Tizzard's Harbor, and from thence inside a 

 straight line to Moor's Point ; provided that herring may be taken at 

 any time and by any means for bait purposes and for immediate use 

 for these purposes in the fisheries. 



25. No herring seine or herring trap shall be used for the purpose 

 of taking herring on that part of the coast from Cape Lallune on the 

 West Coast, and running by the West and North through the Straits 

 of Belle Isle to Cape John. 



26. No person shall use a seine for the purpose of catching herring 

 in the waters of Placentia Bay, except exclusively for bait, and for 

 immediate use for that purpose in the fisheries, between the 1st day 

 of March and the 31st day of May in any year, in those portions of 

 the waters of Placentia Bay which are enclosed by a line drawn from 

 Placentiaman's Point, on the mainland, to Maggoty Cove Point in 

 Sound Island, and by a line drawn from South Island Point, on the 

 Southern side of Sound Island, to Hardy's Cove, Woody Island to 

 the Western Point, and thence in a straight line to LaPlante on the 

 mainland. All vessels coming to Sound Island for the purpose of 

 catching or purchasing herring shall remain at anchor below the 

 North-Eastern Point of Sound Island (Bloody Point). 



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

 nets have been placed in such a position as to prevent the hauling of 

 such seine, 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, or shall refuse to remove such nets when required, the owner 

 of the seine or his agent may remove such nets, or haul the nets 

 shoreward with the seine, but in such case the owner of the seine 

 shall compensate the owner of the nets for any damage done to the 

 nets, and shall return the quantity, or pay the value of such herring 



as may be in the nets. 

 762 28. When any person has commenced to shoot his seine no 



other person shall place or set any other fishing gear, net or 

 other contrivance within such space the said seine is about to encom- 

 pass. 



29. In the shooting of seines the first person who throws put 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. 



30. In case two seines shall be shot at the same time, and one seine 

 shall be inside of the other, and herring be taken in both seines, the 

 catch shall belong equally to both owners;, but in case herring be 

 taken only in one seine, the owner of the other seine shall have no 

 claim to any portion of the catch. 



