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APPEXDIX-TO REPOKT FROM THE 



Denmark. 



DENMARK. 



Fishery Lair, 5th April, 1888. 



The sections affecting imder-sized fish are : — 



Chapter 2. — Fishery at Sea and off open coasts. 



Sectio'k 13. — ^Minimum size for lobsters is 7 inches from beak to root of tail. 



Section 1.5 (c).— No trade may be carried on in— 



Bornholm Salmon mider 3 lb. 



Trout „ I lb. 



Cod „ i lb. 



Turbot „ J lb. 



" For other kinds of fish see Section -56." 



Chapter 4. — Fishing in fiords other than Lim Fiord. 



Sections 41-2. — In waters in which fry maybe expected to hatch, bye-laws made by 

 a local Committee may be framed to prohibit fishing with trawls or nets, except nets 

 used for the capture of small fish for bait. These " closed waters " not to exceed 

 one-quarter of the whole area concerned. 



By Section 43. — " Under very pecuHar conditions a smaller measure of size for fish 

 can be named in the bye-laws than is laid down in Section 56, but care must be taken 

 not to interfere with the privileges of the local fishermen." 



Chapter 5, Section 56. — ^Fish fry and immature fish which are caught can only be 

 used as food for man. The purchase and sale of the same, except when the take is 

 caught for bait, or for breeding, or to be exchanged from one hatching station to another, 

 is forbidden. 



This prohibition includes eels, pike and salmon — ^less, than 12 inches. 



Cod 



Whitiug 



Plaice 



Turbot 



BriU 



Bream 



Tench 



Trout 



i.Twiniad 



less than 8 inches. 



lesi than 6 inches, 



•Dab 



Flounder 

 Perch 

 Bleak 

 measured from the point of the fore -snout to the root of the caudal fin. 



Section 58. — Infractions of the sections specified above are punishable by fijies of from 



10 to 400 crowns. 

 A BiU now before the Rigsdag (1904) proposes to allow plaice of 6^ inches (snout to 

 tail) to be taken ashore in certain districts, provided they are consumed on the spot 

 or exported at once. 



It also proposes to fix the following minimum sizes : — 



France. 



FEAXCE. 



" Previously to the year 1862 there were special regulations as to the size at which different 

 species of fish could be caught or sold, from 9 cm. (about 3^ inches) for smelt to 27 cm. (lOJ 

 inches) for salmon and cod." 



Decree, 10th May, 1862. 



The Decree of 10th May, ] 862, which is applicable to and now in force in all France, alters 



the prp\-ious legislation. # 



