STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1299 



Sunday, it shall be lawful to set the cod-trap or cod-trap leader, at 

 or after noon on the day previous (Saturday). If any person shall 

 set a cod-trap leader on the fishing grounds after the above dates, 

 in order to secure the place for the setting of his cod-traps, and such 

 person shall fail to set such cod-trap within four days after setting 

 out such leader, it shall be lawful for any other person who may de- 

 sire to secure the place where such leader was so set out for the 

 setting of his (the latter's) cod-trap, to remove such leader, and then 

 set his own leader or cod-trap in place thereof, and the latter shall 

 be subject also to the provisions of this section as against any other 

 who may so desire to set a leader of cod-trap ; provided that if any 

 person after setting his cod-trap leader shall be bona fide prevented 

 by stress of weather or ice from setting his cod-trap within the said 

 four days, such period shall be computed from the time at which 

 the weather or ice shall permit of his setting such cod-trap. 



No bultows or trawls shall be used before the fifteenth day of 

 August in any year on the fishing grounds within three miles or the 

 Coast of Labrador or Islands on said Coast between a line to be 

 drawn south-east from Cape Charles and a line drawn from east 

 and west from White Islands in Domino Run. 



No cod-trap shall be set in Blackguard Bay, Labrador, except from 

 the mainland or islands and rocks above water, inside a line to be 

 drawn from Curlew Point, thence to Long Island Head to the north- 

 west end of the Western Hare Island. 



64. The use of cod -traps is entirely prohibited in Port-au-Port 

 Bay ; that is to say, in East and West Bay, and extending from Long 

 Point (or the Bar) to Bear Head, north of Serpentine Kiver, in the 

 District of St. George. 



The use of trawls and bultows is prohibited on the fishing grounds 

 from the west point of Hillier's Harbor to Pyramid Point, near 

 Cape Eogue, White Bay, in the District of St. Barbe. 



(Added.) The use of trawls or bultows is prohibited on the fishing 

 grounds inside one mile from the shore in Pinnaire Bay in the Straits 

 of Belle Isle. 



WHALE FISHERY. 



65. The owner or manager of every whaling factory, or of any 

 factory connected either directly or indirectly with said fishery, shall 

 furnish within the month of January, a yearly statement, showing 

 for the previous twelve month, namely from the 1st of January to 

 the 31st of December of the previous year : 



(1) The number of whales captured; 



(2) How many males; how many females; 



(3) How many whales of each species male and female; 



(4) The quantity of oil (in gallons) obtained therefrom; 



(5) The quantity of guano, whale bone and bonemeal obtained 

 therefrom. 



TROUT AND SALMON. 



66. No person shall catch, kill, capture or take any salmon, trout, 

 or inland water fishes, in any river, brook, pond, stream, lake or 

 estuary in Newfoundland, by any means other than rod, hook and line. 



67. No person shall use any appliance other than rod, hook and 

 line to catch any salmon, trout, or inland water fishes, within fifty 



