10 SHAD FISHERY COHUISSIOX 



thau in a square net, and dipping and drifting for salmon and gaspereaux is 

 prohibited. 



' 2. No square net shall be used in the Gaspereau river, or any branch 

 or tributary thereof, of a greater size than twelve feet square, and the mesh 

 of any seine used belovp Fuller bridge shall not be less than two and a half 

 inches.' 



(f) Sec. 24, subsection 10, Nova Scotia regulations is annulled by the prohibi- 

 tion of weirs which we recommend. The subsection reads as follows : — 



' 10. In the herring fishery of Medford and Pereaiix, each brush weir 

 shall have at least two hundred feet of seine, of not less than two inches 

 straight mesh in the ' bunt,' to allow the small fish to escape ; and no seine 

 or weir shall be so far finished as to catch before the 1st day of May in 

 each year.' 



(g) We may add that while the above prohibition of weirs and seines affects 

 certain special urea and in Scott's bay. Kings county, section 24, subsection 9 (X. 

 S. Regs.) applies prohibiting drift netting for shad inside of a straight line drawn 

 from Cape Split to Stephen Bennett's bay, this does not interfere with set-nets of 5 

 inches mesh extension measure or with lines for trawl fishing. 



(h) Finally we call attention to the fact that the Fisheries Act, chapter 45, section 

 19, prohibits salmon drift-netting in Canada, excepting in Xew Brunswick and British 

 Columbia, but salmon have been taken by drift nets for over fifty years when drifting 

 for shad, and it is in Nova Scotia a recognized fishery, but not licensed. This fishing 

 it would be difficult to stop and the only feasible course is to legalize it under a permit. 



The whole of which is respectfully submitted. 



(Signed.) 



SIMON MELANSOX, 1 ^ 



SAMUEL F. ^rOERISON,5 Oomrmssioners. 



EDWAED E. PRINCE. 



Chairman of the Commission. 

 Ott.wv.^^ February 6, 1909. 



