140 ART OF ANGLING. 



Whereas the periods limited by the said acts 

 of 13 E. 1. & 13 Rich. 2. are not suited to the 

 fisheries for salmon, salmon peal, or salmon 

 kind, or bouges otherwise sea trout, or to the 

 protection of the spawn or fry of salmon, in the 

 rivers commonly called the Teign, Dart, or Plym, 

 in the county of Devon, and have been found 

 very prejudicial to the owners and proprietors 

 of the fisheries in such rivers, and to the pub- 

 lic ; and whereas it is necessary that provision 

 should be made for the better preservation of 

 salmon, and the spawn, fry, or young brood of 

 salmon, salmon peal, salmon kind, and bouges 

 or sea trout, in the said rivers Teign, Dart, and 

 Plym, and in the several rivulets or streams of 

 water communicating therewith, it is enacted 

 that it shall be lawful for the respective owners 

 and proprietors, and persons legally entitled to 

 fish in the said rivers or waters called the Dart, 

 Teign, and Plym, in the said county, or in any 

 of the streams of water or rivulets communica- 

 ting therewith, and their respective servants and 

 agents, at any time of the year between the 4th. 

 of March and the 4th. December, within the 

 Teign, and the several rivulets or streams com- 

 municating therewith, with legal and proper nets, 

 or hooks and lines, to take, kill, or destroy any 

 salmon, salmon peal, or salmon kind, and to of- 

 fer to sale any such fish so taken, between the 



