10 THE YOUNG FISHERMAN. 



Angling in salt water is not half so agreeable as in 

 fresh water, nor does it require near so much tact and 

 management of the tackle and baits as fresh water 

 fishng. 



LAWS RELATING TO ANGLING. 



By an Act of Parliament for consolidating and amend- 

 ing the Laws relative to Larceny, &c., passed in the 7th 

 and 8th George IV., it is provided " That if any person 

 shall unlawfully and wilfully take or destroy any fish in 

 any water which shall run through or be in any land 

 adjoining or belonging to the dwelling house of any 

 person being the owner of such water, or having a right 

 of fishery therein, every such offender shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof, shall be pu- 

 nished accordingly ; and if any person shall unlawfully 

 and wilfully take or destroy, or attempt to take or destroy, 

 any fish in any water not being such as aforesaid, but 

 which shall be private property, or in which there shall 

 be any private right of fishery, every such offender being 

 convicted thereof before a Justice of the Peace, shall forfeit 

 and pay, over and above the value of the fish taken or 

 destroyed, (if any) such sum of money not exceeding five 

 pounds, as to the Justice shall seem meet ; provided 

 always that nothing herein before contained shall extend 

 to any person angling in the day-time ; but if any shall 

 by angling in the day-time, unlawfully and wilfully take 

 or destroy, or attempt to take or destroy, any fish in any 

 such water as first mentioned, he shall on conviction 

 before a Justice of the Peace, forfeit and pay any sum 

 not exceeding five pounds ; and if in any such water as 

 last mentioned, he shall, on the like conviction, forfeit 

 and pay any sum not exceeding two pounds, as to the 

 Justices shall seem meet ; and if the boundary of any 

 parish, township, or village, shall happen to be in, or by the 

 side of any such water as is herein before mentioned, it 

 shall be sufficient to prove that the offence was com- 

 mitted, either in the parish, township, or village named 

 in the indictment or information, or in any parish, town- 

 ship, or village adjoining thereto. 



" And be it enacted, that if any person shall at any 

 time be found fishing against the provisions of this Act, 



