river trout or sea trout, taken or caught in the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; provided,—

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1. Any person may so ship such trout caught by him for sport, to the extent of 25 lbs. in weight, if the shipment is accompanied by a certificate to that effect from either the local fishery officer in whose district the fish were caught or from the local station agent adjacent to the locality in which they were caught or is accompanied by copy of the official license or permit issued to the person making the shipment.

2. No single package of such trout shall exceed 25 lbs. in weight, nor shall any person be permitted to ship more than one package during the season.

SEC. 5.-Lobster fishery.

(See also Fisheries Act sections 35 to 42 inclusive.)

1. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession lobsters from the last day of May to the fourteenth day of December in each year, both days inclusive, on and along that part of the coast or the waters thereof, of the Province of Nova Scotia, embraced and included within the Counties of Yarmouth, Shelburne, Queen's, Lunenburg, and that part of the County of Halifax, west of a line running S.S.E. from St. George's Island, Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, and coinciding with the fairways buoys in the entrance of the said harbour; nor shall any person within the above described limits, at any time fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession any lobster or lobsters under nine inches in length, measuring from head to tail, exclusive of claws or feelers.

2. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession lobsters from the last day of June in each year to the fourteenth day of January then next following, both days inclusive, in any part of the Bay of Fundy, or on any part of the coasts or waters thereof, inside of a line drawn from the division line of the Counties of Charlotte and St. John, near Point Lepreau, running outside of Brier Island, to the boundary line between the Counties of Digby and Yarmouth, in the Province of Nova Scotia; nor shall any person, within the above described limits, at any time, fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession any lobster or lobsters under 10 inches in length, measuring from head to tail, exclusive of claws or feelers, excepting on the part of the coast or the waters thereof of the Province of New Brunswick embraced and included within the County of St. John, where it is hereby provided that no one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession lobsters from the last day of June in each year to the fifth day of January then next following, both days inclusive.

In the Counties of Charlotte, New Brunswick, and Digby, Nova Scotia, no one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in his possession lobsters from the fifteenth day of June to nine o'clock a. m. on the sixth day of January, then next following; nor shall any person, within the above described limits, at any time, fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in his possession any lobster or lobsters under nine inches in length, measuring from head to tail, exclusive of claws or feelers; providing that in that portion of the County of Digby fronting on the Bay of Fundy, the legal size limit for lobsters shall be ten and one-half inches in length, measuring from head to tail, exclusive of claws or feelers.

3. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in his possession lobsters from the first day of July in each year to the thirty-first day of March then next following, both days inclusive, on and along that part of the coast of the Province of Nova Scotia or the waters thereof, from the aforesaid line, running S.S.E. from St. George's Island, Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, and coinciding with the fairway buoys in the entrance to the said harbour, extending eastwardly and following the coast line, as far as Red Point, between Martin Point and Point Michaux, in the Island of Cape Breton, and including Chedabucto Bay and St. Peter's Bay, and the coasts and waters of all the islands lying in and adjacent to these bays, and including the coasts and waters of the Gut of Canso, as far as a line passing from Flat Point in Inverness County, to the lighthouse in Antigonish County opposite.

4. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession lobsters from the first day of August in each year, to the last day of April then next following, both days inclusive, on and along that part of the coast of Cape Breton Island, in the Province of Nova Scotia, or the waters thereof, from Red

Point, between Martin Point and Point Michaux, in the Island of Cape Breton, and extending to, and around Cape North, as far as and including Cape St. Lawrence; also the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence from the Bay of Blanc Sablon, in the Province of Quebec, westward to the head of tide, embracing the coasts and waters of all the islands adjacent to the said shore, and including the Island of Anticosti, and lobster fishing on the coasts and waters of all the islands known as the Magdalen Islands, including Bird Rocks and Bryon Island, may begin on the twentieth day of April in each year and end on the tenth day of July then next following; also that a fall fishing season is permitted in these waters during the month of September in each year; but no one shall, at any time, fish for lobsters in the lagoons.

5. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession lobsters from the eleventh day of August in each year, to the twenty-fourth day of May then next following, both days inclusive, along the coasts and in the waters of Northumberland Straits, between a line on the north-west, drawn from Chockfish River, in New Brunswick, to West Point, in Prince Edward Island, and a line on the southeast, drawn from Indian Point, near Cape Tormentine, in New Brunswick, to Cape Traverse, in Prince Edward Island.

6. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession lobsters from the eleventh day of July in each year, to the nineteenth day of April then next following, both days inclusive, in any part of Canada or the coasts or waters thereof, not embraced within the limits described in the foregoing regulations.

7. Excepting as elsewhere provided as above, in which the size limits are fixed at nine inches and ten and a half inches, no one shall, in any part of Canada, or the coasts or waters thereof, at any time, fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession any lobster or lobsters under eight inches in length, measuring from head to tail, exclusive of claws or feelers. 683

8. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in his possession for any purpose whatever, any berried lobster or lobsters, or any softshelled lobster or lobsters. Such lobsters when caught shall be liberated alive.

9. No one shall set or place lobster traps or other fishing apparatus, for the purpose of taking lobsters in any waters of the depth of two fathoms or under.

10. No one shall set or place lobster traps or other fishing apparatus for the purpose of taking lobsters, at a distance of less than one hundred yards from any stationary salmon net, set apart for the purpose of taking salmon.

11. No one shall, for canning purposes, offer for sale, sell. barter, supply or purchase any fragments of lobsters, lobsters purposely mutilated or broken up, or any broken lobster meat, and all fragments of lobsters, lobsters purposely mutilated or broken up, or broken lobster meat, so offered for sale, sold. bartered, supplied or purchased, shall be liable to seizure and confiscation, unless possessed for the purpose of domestic consumption only, and not for canning, the proof whereof shall devolve on the owner or possessor.

12. No one shall, for canning purposes, boil lobsters on board any ship, vessel, boat or floating structure of any description whatever, except under special licence from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.

13. No one shall prepare to fish for lobsters by placing or setting any buoys, lines or other gear used in connection with such fishing, before 6 o'clock in the morning of the day on which it is lawful to take or catch lobsters in the locality affected.

Trawl fishing for lobsters.

The use of trawls for the purpose of catching lobsters is prohibited in the waters of the Counties of Gaspé and Bonaventure.

SEC. 6.-Oyster fishery regulations.

1. No person shall fish for or catch oysters without a lease or license from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.

2. The owner, person or persons interested in a fishing boat employed in the oyster fishery shall cause a memorandum in writing, setting forth the name of the owner, person or persons interested, to be filed with the local fishery officer, who, if no valid objection exists, may, under instructions from the Mi ister of Marine and Fisheries, issue a fishery license for the same, and any boat or fishing apparatus used without such license, shall be deemed to be illegal and liable to forfeiture, together with the oysters caught therein,

and the owner or person using the same shall be subject to the penalties prescribed by the Fisheries Act.

3. All boats fishing for oysters shall have a registration number corresponding with that of the license legibly marked or painted on the bow of the boat, in white coloured letters on a black ground, and the initial letter of the port to which such boat belongs, such letters to be at least eight inches in length.

4. Oysters shall not be fished for, caught, killed, bought, sold or had in possession from the 1st day of April to the 30th day of September, both days inclusive, in each year.

5. Fishing for oysters or any other shell fish through the ice is prohibited. 6. No person shall fish for, catch, kill or buy, sell or have in possession any round oysters of a less size than three inches in diameter of shell, nor any long oysters measuring less than three and a half inches of outer shell.

Round oysters of a less size than three inches in diameter, and long oysters measuring less than three and a half inches on the outer shell, and that may be accidentally caught, shall be returned to the water alive at the cost and risk of the person so fishing, on whom, in every case, shall devolve the proof of actual liberation.

Provided always that persons holding fishery licenses, may obtain from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, permission to fish for and catch small oysters for the purpose of planting or stocking oyster beds.

7. Fishing for oysters is prohibited on Sunday, and from sunset to sunrise on any other day of the week.

8. (a) No person shall dig mussel mud within 200 yards from any live oyster bed, and then only at such place or places as may be prescribed in writing by a fishery officer.

(b) No person shall dig mussel mud in Trout River, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, excepting above a line drawn from Peter Miller's Middle Point to a point of land at the end of Yeo's Portage Road.

(c) No person shall dig mussel mud in Bideford River, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, excepting above a line drawn from Bideford Shipyard to Colin McKay's Point, including Pawes Creek.

9. The use of rakes for the purpose of taking oysters on any beds prepared or planted by the Department of Marine and Fisheries, is prohibited.

10. The use, for taking oysters on oyster-beds, of quahaug rakes, tongs operated by purchase power, or tongs or rakes other than the ordinary ones now in use in oyster-fishing in the Provinces of Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, is prohibited.

11. All the waters of York or North River, Queen's County, Prince Edward Island, included between the bridge from Poplar Island to the west shore on the said river and a due east and west line drawn from the mouth of Forkey Creek to the opposite shore, are hereby set apart for the natural and artificial propagation of oysters.

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12. All the waters of Big Tracadie Harbour lying east of a line drawn due north and south (true) across the narrowest part of the entrance of the West Arm, situated at Tracadie, in the County of Antigonish, in the Province of Nova Scotia, are hereby set apart for the natural and artificial propagation of oysters.

13. All the waters of Shediac Harbour, extending from a line drawn south, 67° west (due west magnetic) from Mr. Petitpas' house on Shediac Island, to Mr. Wilbur's tannery, on the north side of Wilbur's Cove, southwardly to a line drawn from the south extremity of Snake Point, 50° 7' 30'' west (west by south south magnetic) to the corner of Moncton road, the points where the boundary lines above described cut the high water on shore being marked in each case by a square cedar post, inscribed O. R., and the whole including below low water mark an area of 980 acres, be the same more or less.

And all the waters of Shediac harbour extending from a straight line drawn scath 60° 19' east, between the station established on the south shore of Shediac island, at its mouth, being the point of Shediac island (this being the north limit of the said reserve) and the north boundary of the reserve set apart by the next preceding paragraph, the whole containing an area of 482 acres, more or less.

SEC. 7.-Quahaug or hard-shell clams.

1. No one shall fish for or catch hard-shell clams or quahaugs without a license from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. The fee on each such license shall be one dollar per season.

2. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or possess hard-shell clams or quabaugs, excepting during the months of May, June and September, in each year.

3. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or possess hard-shell clams or quahaugs of a less size than one and one-quarter inches in length, and any such hard-shell clams or quahaugs measuring less than one and one-quarter inches in length, on the outer-shell, that may be accidentally caught, shall be returned to the water alive by the person so fishing.

4. The use of rakes for catching hard-shell clams or quahaugs, having teeth less than one and one-quarter inches apart, is prohibited.

5. Fishing for hard-shell clams or quahaugs in bays, harbours and other waters within the Dominion of Canada, where oysters are taken, shall be permittted only on areas set apart and marked out by the local fishery officer for the respective districts in which such fishing is prosecuted.

[Special Fishery Regulations for Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were here inserted.]

PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.

SPECIAL FISHERY REGULATIONS.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, OTTAWA,

Thursday, the 12th day of September, 1907.

On the recommendation of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, and under the provisions of Chapter 45 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, intituled "The Fisheries Act," his Excellency in Council has been pleased to make the following fishery regulations for the Province of Quebec:

SEC. 1.-Anglers' Permits.

(See General Fishery Regulations.)

SEC. 2.-Bait.

The Minister of Marine and Fisheries may authorize the issue of special permits to take Bait for the bona fide purpose of deep-sea fishing for any specified time during the weekly close time prescribed by the fishery laws.

SEC. 3.-Bass.

1. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in possession any bass from the 1st April to the 15th June, both days inclusive, in each year.

2. No one shall fish for or take black bass otherwise than by hook and line (angling), and any such fish as may be accidentally taken in seines or nets of any kind operated for other fishing, shall be liberated alive by the owner or operator of such seines or nets.

3. No black bass (achigan) less than nine inches in length,-measured from the point of the nose to the centre of the tail-shall be retained or kept out of the water, sold, offered or exposed for sale or had in possession, and any one who takes any black bass (achigan) less than nine inches in length shall immediately return such fish to the water from which it was taken, alive and uninjured.

4. No rock bass (crapais noir) less than six inches in length,-measured from the point of the nose to the centre of the tail,-shall be retained or kept out of the water, sold, offered or exposed for sale, or had in possession, and any one who takes any rock bass (crapais noir) less than six inches in length shall immediately return such fish to the water from which it was taken, alive and uninjured.

No person shall carry on Cod-fishing with seines at a less distance than one half mile from any fishing grounds where fishing boats are anchored, and fishermen are actually engaged fishing for Codfish with hooks and lines.

Cod-fishing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Quebec).

1. Fishing by means of Cod trap-nets without a license from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries is prohibited in the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 2. Cod traps shall not be set near the mouth of any river frequented by salmon, or in such a manner or at such places, as to obstruct or interfere with the passage of salmon.

3. All Cod trap-nets shall be placed at distances of not less than two hundred and fifty yards apart, and no fishing apparatus of any kind shall be set, or used in or about any part of the water between Cod trap nets. Provided always that any Fishery Officer may direct, either in writing or orally on sight that any greater space than two hundred and fifty yards shall be left between Cod trap-nets, and any Cod trap-nets or other fishing apparatus which the owner or person using the same neglects or refuses to remove in accordance with such directions, shall be deemed to be illegal and liable to forfeiture together with the fish caught therein, and the owner or person using the same shall also be subject to the fines and penalties provided by the Fisheries Act.

4. The leader of each Cod trap-net shall, in every case, extend from the shore, and any Fishery Officer may determine in writing, or orally, the length of the leader that shail be used.

5. The pots of Cod trap-nets shall have meshes of at least four inches extension measure, and the leaders shall have meshes of at east six inches extension, and nothing shall be done to practically diminish the size of the meshes.

6. The fee on Cod trap-nets shall be fifty cents for each fathom in length of leader, and such fee shall be payable in advance.

7. The use of "jiggers" for the purpose of catching or killing Cod is prohibited.

8. All materials, implements, nets, appliances or gear of any kind used and all fish caught, taken, killed, bought, sold or possessed in violation of any of the above regulations shall be seized and confiscated, and any person or person [sic] violating any of the above regulations shall also incur the other penalties provided by the Fisheries Act.

SEC. 6.-Deep Sea Fisheries, Magdalen Islands.

1. It shall be unlawful, during the season of Herring and Mackerel fishery in Pleasant Bay (Magdalen Islands), from the 1st of May to the 15th of June, to set any net or nets opposite the entrance of Amherst Harbour, that is to say eastward a line drawn from the north-west end of the Cape bounding the mouth of said harbour to the east end of Cape Allright, as far as another line intersecting the same and bearing east south-east (magnetic) with the north Cape of Entry Island; and no person or persons shall be permitted at any time to set any net or nets in the middle of Sandy Hook Channel; nor shall any net or nets be set along the northern and western shores of Entry Island at more than one mile distant from the beach: Provided, however, that fishermen may lay their nets from Allright and Grindstone Islands towards Entry Island to within half a mile of those set upon the northern and western shores of said island, so as to leave always, for the purposes of navigation, a clear channel against the entrance into Amherst Harbour, and preserve free access to the bottom of Pleasant Bay for the schools of Herrings and Mackerel resorting thither to spawn.

2. No nets shall be set in the said bay nearer to each other than one hundred feet.

3. Whenever it shall be found impracticable to discover the owner or owners for the time being of any net or nets laid in contravention of these regula