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PART V.
Regulations as to Nets.
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Salmon nets not to be used at mouths of narrow rivers or within half a mile seaward or inwards of mouths of rivers.
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13.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person (other than the owner of a several fishery within the limits thereof) to shoot, draw, or use any net for taking salmon at the mouth of any river or within half a mile seaward, or half a mile inwards or along the coast from the mouth of any river.
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(2) It shall not be lawful for any person (other than the owner of a several fishery in the whole of a river and its tributaries within the limits of such several fishery) to shoot, draw, or stretch any net entirely across the mouth or across any other part of a river.
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(3) If any person contravenes any of the preceding subsections of this section, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine of not less than one pound and not more than ten pounds and a further fine of five shillings for every fish taken by means of any net used in the commission of the offence.
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(4) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section every net in respect of which the offence was committed shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.
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(5) Where the mouth of any tributary river has been defined under section 21 of the Act of 1850 references in the preceding subsections of this section to the mouth of any river shall be construed as including references to the mouth of such tributary river.
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