EXTRACT FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 27, 14 September 1904, Page 270

EXTRACT FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From Gazette, 1904, page 2157.) General Regulations under Fisheries Conservation Acts Fishing Season, License Fees, d'C. PLUNKET, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of September, 1904.

Present: His Excellency the Governor in Council

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and its amendments, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the regulations made under the said Acts on the fourteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and three, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Acts, and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall have force and effect in each acclimatisation district throughout the colony : Regulations.

1. “The said Acts ” mean “ The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and its amendments. 2. Licenses to fish for trout and perch may be issued by the secretary of any duly registered acclimatisation society, or by any one authorised by such secretary in that behalf, and such licenses shall entitle the person named therein to fish in every acclimatisation district from the first day of October in any one year to the thirtieth day of April in the year following, subject to the said Acts and any special regulations made thereunder in force in any such district affecting any particular stream, river, or water therein: Provided that such secretary may refuse to issue a license to any person who within the previous two years has been convicted of any breach of the provisions of any Act relating to fishing for trout or perch, or of any regulation made thereunder: Provided further that in the Auckland Acclimatisation District the said season shall commence on the first day of November and close on the fifteenth day of April in each year, and that within such district these regulations shall be modified accordingly, and all licenses issued thereunder.

8. Such licenses shall be issued at the following rates : Licenses for men : One pound for the whole season. Licenses for women, and for boys attending school or under the age of sixteen years: Five shillings for the whole season. 4. Every such license shall be in the form set forth in the schedule hereto.

By Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington

5. No license shall authorise any person other than the person named therein to fish, and that with natural or artificial fly, insect, or fish only. 6. No person shall have in his possession any of the Salmonidce or trout between the first day of May and the thirtieth day of September in any year, which period is hereby appointed a close season for all such fish: Provided always that this regulation shall not apply to fish caught by the officers of an acclimatisation society for purposes of acclimatisation.

7. No person shall cast or throw into any stream or waters in which trout or salmon exist or have been liberated, or shall allow to flow into or place near the bank or margin of any such stream or waters, any sawdust or sawmill refuse, lime, sheep-dip, flax-mill refuse, or any other matter or liquid that is noxious, poisonous, or injurious to fish: Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to prohibit the depositing in such stream of debris from any mining claim.

8. No person shall take, fish for, catch, or kill, in any manner whatever, or have in his possession, any salmon, salmon parr, or smolts, or the ova, young, or fry of any salmon in any stage whatever ; and any of the above-named taken by accident or otherwise shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

9. No person shall fish for trout or perch without a license, and every person fishing shall on the demand of any Ranger, constable, or officer of the said society, or of any person producing a license, produce and show to such Ranger, officer, constable, or person his license, and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him for taking, catching, or killing such trout or perch. 10. Every trout not exceeding nine inches in length from nose to tip of tail, taken or caught by any person, shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

11. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout or perch, nor shall any of the above-mentioned baits be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever. 12. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish with or use any net or any instrument or device or means for taking salmon, or trout, or perch in any river, stream, or waters, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river, stream, or waters.

13. For the purposes of these regulations the mouth of every river or stream shall be deemed to include every outlet of the same and the sea-shore between such outlets, and shall extend over a radius of five hundred yards from the point or line where the waters of such river or stream meet those of the sea or of any harbour at low water. 14. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any salmon, trout, or perch, or any part thereof. 15. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall not be less than forty shillings or more than fifty pounds. 16. If any person shall be convicted of an offence against these regulations the license (if any) held by the offender shall thereupon become void.

SCHEDULE. General License to Fish. The holder of this license [ Name in full ], of [Address, and calling or occupation ], having this day paid the sum of , is hereby authorised to fish for trout and other acclimatised fish in every acclimatisation district from the day of , 190 ,to the day of , 190 , following, subject to general regulations in force for the time being, and subject also to the local regulations in force in each district. Dated at , this day of , 190 . , Secretary, Acclimatisation Society. ALEX. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council.