2266 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



inland fisheries, to prevent or remedy the obstruction and pollution 

 of streams, to regulate and prevent fishing, to prohibit the destruction 

 of fish, and to forbid fishing except under authority of leases or 

 licenses; which regulations shall have the same force and effect as if 

 herein enacted, and may fix such modes, times or places as are 

 deemed by the Governor in Council adapted to different localities, or 

 otherwise expedient. 



Fishing Rules and Regulations, 1908. 



Lobster Fishery. 



9. (As amended.) No person shall spear or hook lobsters or use 

 hand traps in the waters of this Colony, nor shall any person pur- 

 chase, can, or in any way use or export lobsters so taken. 



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 purse seine shall be used in the waters of Newfound- 

 land. 



1371 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 first day of April and 

 the first day of August in any year. 



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. 



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

 of taking herring on that part of the coast from Cape La Hune on 

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

 Straits of Belle Isle to Cape John. 

 Cod Fishery. 



51. Any person using a herring seine or caplin seine on the coast 

 of this Island to take or haul cod-fish shall be guilty of a violation 

 of these rules. 



62. No bultows shall be used on the fishing grounds from Cape La 

 Hune to Cape Ray, both inclusive, in the district of Burgeo and La 

 Poile. 



63. (As amended). No person shall place in the waters of the 

 Labrador Coast, any cod-trap, or cod-trap leader or mooring, nor 

 shall it be lawful for any person to put out any contrivance whatso- 

 ever for the purpose of securing a trap-berth on that portion of the 

 coast : from Blanc Sablon to Gull Island, near the north-east point 

 of Square Island, before noon of the first day of June; nor from 

 Gull Island to a line drawn east and west (magnetic) from Colling- 

 ham Island in Table Bay, before noon of the fifth day of June; nor 

 from Collingham Island to Cape Porcupine before noon of the tenth 

 day of June; nor from Cape Porcupine to Red Point on Byron's 

 Island before noon of the fifteenth day of June ; nor from Red Point 

 to a line drawn east and west from a point two miles north-east of 

 East Turnavik before noon of the twentieth day of June ; nor from 

 Turnavik to a line drawn east and west from Thumb Island near 



