2268 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



CANADA. 



Revised Statutes, 1906, Chapter Ifi. 



Whale Fishing. 9. 



No one shall at any time engage in the manufacture from whales 

 of oil or other commercial products, and no vessel or boat shall be 

 employed in the whale fishery, except under license from the Min- 

 ister. 



1372 6. The fee charged on each such license shall be eight hun- 

 dred dollars for the first year, one thousand dollars for the sec- 

 ond year, and twelve hundred dollars for the third and each ensuing 

 year, and the fee on all subsequent licenses for the same factory shall 

 be twelve hundred dollars; such fee shall be payable to the Min- 

 ister of Marine and Fisheries, first on the issue of the license, and 

 on the first day of July in each year thereafter: Provided, that the 

 Governor in Council, after the first two years, may exact, in lieu of 

 such fee, a sum equal to two per centum of the gross earnings of 

 each factory, which shall be payable as aforesaid. 



9. Boats known as tow-boats shall not be used by anyone in the 

 prosecution of the whaling industry, and no vessel other than the 

 vessel from which the whales have been captured or killed, shall, by 

 any method or contrivance, bring or tow into port any whale for 

 manufacture or other purpose ; but nothing in this section shall pre- 

 vent any one, other than the holder of a license, or his employees, 

 from towing any dead whale to land, and having it maniiiacturea 

 or otherwise disposing of it in accordance with the provisions of 

 this section. 



General Prohibitions. 



47. No one shall fish for, take, catch or kill fish in any water, or 

 along any beach, or within any fishing limits, described in any lease 

 or license, or place, use, draw or set therein any fishing gear or appa- 

 ratus, except by permission of the occupant under such lease or 

 license for the time being, or shall disturb or injure any fishery: 

 Provided that the occupation of any fishing station or waters so 

 leased or licensed for the express purpose of net fishing shall not 

 interfere with the taking of bait used for cod-fishing, or prevent 

 angling for other purposes than those of trade and commerce. 



(7.) No one shall use a bag-net, trap-net or fish pound, except un- 

 der a special license, granted for capturing deep-sea fish other than 

 salmon. 



(14.) From the time of low water nearest six of the clock in the 

 afternoon of every Saturday, to the time of low water nearest six of 

 the clock in the forenoon of every Monday, in tidal waters, and 

 from six of the clock in the afternoon of every Saturday to six of 

 the clock in the forenoon of the following Mondaj 7 , in non-tidal 

 waters, all sedentary fishing stations and weirs, and all pound and 

 trap-nets, seines, gill-nets and other apparatus used for catching fish, 

 whejther under license or not, shall be so raised, closed or adapted as 

 to admit of the free passage of fish through, by or out of such appa- 

 ratus; and during such close time no one shall catch fish in such 

 apparatus, whether under license or not. 



