LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOB, TAKING FISH. 93 



Under the penalty of paying and forfeiting the sum of five 

 pounds for every such oifence. 



No fish of any of the sort hereinafter mentioned may be caught 

 in the Thames or Medway, or sold, or exposed to or for sale, if 

 caught in the Thames or Medway 



No salmon of less weight than six pounds, 



No trout of less weight than one pound, 



No pike or jack under twelve inches long, from the eye to the 

 length of the tail. 



No perch under eight inches long, 



No flounder under seven inches long, 



No sole under seven inches long, 



No plaice or dab under seven inches long, 



No roach under eight inches long, 



No dace under six inches long, 



No smelt under six inches longj, 



No gudgeon under five inches long, 



No whiting under eight inches long, 



No barbel under twelve inches long, 



No chub under nine inches lon^, 



Under pain to forfeit five pounds for every such offence. 



Salmon and trout may be taken only from January 25th to 

 September 10th. 



Pike, jack, perch, roach, dace, chub, barbel, and gudgeon, may 

 be taken between July 1st and March 1st. 



Bottom-fishing is prohibited in the river Thames, as far as the 

 Corporation of London has jurisdiction, from the 1st of March to 

 the 1st of June. 



The right of fishing in the sea, and in all rivers where the tide 

 ebbs and flows, is a right common to all the king's subjects. 



Any person or persons considering themselves wronged or 

 aggrieved by any decision against them by the magistrate or 

 justice, may appeal against it at the quarter sessions. 



PEOTECTION OF PEESEEVES. 



" That no person shall fish with any sort of net, weel, night- 

 hook, or any other device, except by angling in, or make use of 

 any net, engine, or device to drive the fish out of any place which 

 shall be staked^by order of the Lord Mayor of the City of London 

 for the time being, as conservator aforesaid, for the preservation of 

 the fishery, and whereof notice shall be stuck up in some public 

 place of the town or village, next adjoining to the place or places 

 so ordered to be staked; and that no person shall take up or 

 remove any stake, burr, boat, or any other thing which shall have 

 been driven down or sunk in any such place as aforesaid, unon pain 

 to forfeit and pay, from time to time, the sum of five pounds lor every 

 offence or breach of any part of this order." City Ordinances, 

 Item 44, 



