SALMON FISHING REGULATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4947, 24 September 1877, Page 2

SALMON FISHING REGULATIONS.

The subjoined regulations have been framed ■and gazetted under the provisions of the Salmon and Trout Act,'lß67 :— 1. No person, excepting as hereinafter provided, shall fish for Balmon or salmon trout,-, or use any net of which the mesh is of less diameter than one inch and throe quarters from knot to knot,'or other engine, instrument, or device for taking or killiag fish is any river or stream which shall from time to time be proclaimed as a river or stream in which young salmon or salmon trout, or salmon fry or spawn, or salmon trout fry or spawn, are specially placed or deposited for the purpose of breeding; nor erect or maintain stake nets or any fixed net or engine in any such river or stream. 2. No person shall erect or maintain stake nets, or any fixed nets or engines for taking fish, in the estuaries of any river or Btream, or upon any part c-f the sea coast. 3. No person shall erect any weir or dam across any river or stream without providing, to the satisfaction of the Governor, salmon ladders or Btaire by which the salmon can ascend past such weir or dam. 4. No person, excepting as hereinbefore provided, shall have in his possession any salmon, or salmon trout. 5. All nets or other engines, instruments, or devices whatsoever used contrary to tbe provisions of these regulations, shall be seized, forfeited, destroyed, or removed, as the case may require.' 6. The penalty for every offence against the above regulations shall be a sum not exceeding £100. 7. ■ Nothing in the first of these regulations shall bo held to be applicable to any acclimatisation society or their officers or agents, or to any other body of persons in charge of tish-brseding experiments under the authority of the Government.