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Trout. The (English) Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923, consolidates and amends the enactments relating to salmon and trout and freshwater fisheries in England and Wales. Sects. 1 and 2 prohibit the use of a light, otter lath, or jack, wire or snare, spear, gaff, strokehaul, snatch or the like, or stone or other missile, or roe for catching or killing salmon, trout, or freshwater fish. A gaff or tailer may, however, be used as an auxiliary to angling with a rod and line. No explosive or noxious material must be used with intent to take or destroy fish in any waters (s. 9). Sect. 31 provides that -

31.-(1) No person shall fish for, take, kill or attempt to take or kill trout-

(a) Except with a rod and line, during the annual close season for trout; or

(b) with a rod and line during the annual trout close season for rod and line; or

(c) except with a rod and line, during the weekly close time for trout. (3) The annual close season for trout shall in any place in which a period has been fixed in that behalf by a bye-law under this or any other Act be that period, or, if there is no such bye-law, be the period between the thirty-first day of August and the first day of March following.

(4) The annual trout close season for rod and line shall be in any place the period which has been fixed in that behalf by a bye-law under this or any other Act or, if there is no such bye-law, the period between the thirtieth day of September and the first day of March following.

(5) The weekly close time for trout shall be in any place the period which has been fixed in that behalf by a bye-law under this or any other Act, or, if there is no such bye-law, the period between the hour of six on Saturday morning and the hour of six on the following Monday morning.

(7) This s. shall not apply to rainbow trout.

By s. 32, buying and selling of trout is prohibited between 31st August and 1st March, but by the Amendment Act, 1929, makes certain exemptions, the most important of which is canned, frozen, or otherwise preserved, trout.