884 AMERICAN AN&LER'S BOOK. 



Section 31. Trout-fishing illegal between 20th October and 1st Fel*iary. 

 " 33. Netting for Trout in any lake or stream prohibited, except 

 upon the River St. Lawrence. 

 36. Purchase, sale, or possession, during prohibited seasons, of 

 any Salmon or Trout, made a punishable ofieuce. 



Regulations under Order in Council. 

 By-Law A. — Parties forbidden to occupy Salmon or Sea-Trout fishery 

 stations without lease or license from the Crown. 

 B. — The use of nets confined to the brackish waters within the 

 estuary tideway ; and forbidden upon the fresh-water 

 streams above confluence of tide. 

 C. — All nets, &c., to be set no less than two hundred yards 

 apart. 

 " E. — No other fishing whatever allowed over limits covered by 

 exclusive leases or licenses from the Crown, except by 

 express consent of lessees or licentiates. 

 F. — Prohibits capture of Salmon or Sea-Trout by torchlight, and 



with leister or spear. 

 H. — The receipt, gift, purchase, sale, and possession of speared 

 Salmon or Trout declared illegal. 

 " J.— No mill rubbish to be drifted awaste in any Salmon or Sea- 

 Trout river. 



"Appropriate penalties of fine or imprisonment, with 

 forfeiture of materials and fish, are provided by law for the 

 contravention of the several preceding sections and by-laws. 



" Also, effective and summary modes of proceeding are laid 

 down for recovery of the same." 



The following is an account of ten days' fishing in the 

 Moisie, in the summer of 1858, by J. M. S., Esq., a noted 

 Salmon-fisher of Toronto, Upper Canada. It was originally 

 printed by request for private circulation. The average 

 weight of fish is probably greater than the best river in Scot- 

 land would produce at the present day. I still adhere, how- 

 ever, to the opinion I have already expressed, that Salmon in 

 the rivers of Scotland are generally larger than they are on 

 this side of the Atlantic. 



