294 Fishing with a saucepanl A 



hand. One was caught for identification in a sauci 

 and immediately released again. 



Close Season. 



73. The Board has desired to know whether a 



-time should be enforced. The circumstances of 



South Canara rivers differ so widely from those of En 



streams that it does not seem necessary to follow the ] 



example in this respect. The monsoon floods rend 



practically impossible to net for four months in the tv, 



and the body of water still in the river makes it sc 



ly worthwhile to net for three months more. Netti: 



generally delayed till the large fish are driven bj 



general lowness of the rivers to congregate in the j 



If a few stock pools are reserved 



fixed engines prohibited, a close 



may, as far as the fisheries are 



cerned, be safely dispensed with. 



Size of Meshes. 



75. The meshes of the nets now used in the i 



and in the sea are of all sizes, from three-quarters i 



inch to twenty-four inches in cir 

 Pro. Bd. Eev. No. „ ,. „ , , 



....,,,..,„ ference; the Government has or< 



3,823 dated 28th May ' 



1869, Govt. Order the prohibition of nets with mesl 

 thereon 25th June i ess than 4 inches in circumfer 

 1869, No. 1,812. biit very many gorts of figll; bo 



the rivers and in the sea, never grow to a size to b 

 tangled in such nets. To prohibit smaller meshes, t 

 fore, is to prohibit netting for these fishes, and to c 



