315 

 BRIEF HINTS 



RELATIVE TO 



THE LAWS REGARDING ANGLING, 

 NETTING, fa. fa. 



1 . No salmon can be netted, and sold as the produce of 

 a fishery, that may weigh less than six pounds ; penalty 

 5 1. to be levied on any party concerned. 



2. No salmon under eighteen inches in length, from the 

 eye to the middle of the tail, shall be taken out of any 

 water, by any device , penalty 5 /. 



3. No net to be used for salmon fisheries of less than 

 two inches and a half in the mesh 3 penalty, net fof- 

 feited, and 5/. 



4. Salmon fisheries open July 31st, and last to November 

 12th; in the Ribble, from January 1st to Septem- 

 ber 15th. But this is very partial; many parts having 

 other regulations. From September 8th to November 

 1 1 th, i. e. five weeks, no salmon ought to be taken 

 any where, on account of the spawning j though that 

 is a very uncertain point. 



5. No person to use any device whereby the spawn of 

 fish may be destroyed. Penalty, imprisonment for one 

 year. 



6. Bargemen and others, catching fish in nets in canals, 

 passing through the property of persons, not being 

 free waters, are subject to heavy fines, and to impri- 

 sonment : and the same penalties attend the poisoning, 

 er wilfully destroying fishes in all waters. 



7* Laying 



