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* FISHERIES ACT ONTARIO, 1885. 
PROVIDES for leasing and managing such fisheries as may be under Provin- 
cial Legislative control. “No close seasons specified in body of Act. No protective 
clauses except that Commissioner of Crown Lands may authorize lands to be set 
apart for artificial propagation. 
REGULATIONS UNDER THE AcT :—LEASEs. Leases of fishing rights on Crown 
Lands shall extend one chain back from water. 
PERMITS or licenses granted on fees to be set by Commissioner of Crown 
Lands, and valid till close of angling season. 
EXCESSIVE or wasteful fishing ;—penalty—cancellation of lease. 
PERSONS NOT DOMICILED in Province cannot take fish without permits from 
Commissioner of Crown Lands. 
No PERSON except under lease, license, or permit, shall catch fish in water 
adjoining ungranted Crown Lands. 
SPAWNING FISH and spawning beds not to be molested except by legal 
authority. 
UNLAWFUL to fish for or catch, in ungranted water, brook trout, salmon 
trout, whitefish, bass, pike, pickerel, maskinonge, tulibee, gayling, herring, or perch 
otherwise than by angling, except in waters leased for net-fishing. 
EXPLOSIVES, chemicals, ete., prohibited from use in killing fish. 
ARTIFICIAL LicutT and torch light fishing prohibited. 
DuRING CLOSE SEASONS set by lawful authority, the taking and possession 
of fish are forbidden. 
No OBSTRUCTION by net, trap, weir, or otherwise shall be offered to free 
passage of fish up or down stream. 
FIsHwWAYs to be in no manner obstructed or resorted to for fishing pur- 
poses. 
OFFAL of no sort to be put in water but to be burned twenty yards inland 
| CLOSE SEASONS. 
z (SU GTS GPS AR as ne Close 15th Sept. to lst May next. 
1) SSG Ga) x.) SS “ 15th April to 15th May 
Be ee PURSE TNO! iS ise ace tks “15th April to 15th June 
Whitefish, Salmon trout ............ *“ Ist Nov. to 30th Dec. 
DOMINION LAW. 
(CAP 95, 1886. SEC 15.) 
Limre, CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES, or drugs, poisonous matter, dead or decay- 
ing fish, or any other deleterious substance, shall not be thrown into or 
- allowed to pass into any water. Penalty $100, but the Minister of Marine may 
make exceptions in public interest. 
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