Fisheries Act, 1924

Definitions.

1.—In this Act—

the word “salmon” includes grilse, peal, sea-trout, samlets, parr and all other fish of the salmon kind, and the spawn and fry thereof;

the word “trout” includes pollen or fresh-water herring, and all fish of the trout kind and the spawn and fry thereof;

the expression “annual close season” means and includes any period of time or season of the year within which it is or shall be lawfully prohibited to fish for, take, or destroy any fish of the kind, in reference to which the expression is used, in the river, lake, estuary, or part of the sea to which the expression is applied; and

all other words and expressions used in this Act which are also used in the Fisheries (Ireland) Acts, 1842 to 1909, shall respectively have the same meanings in this Act as they have in those Acts.