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Home Dictionary Name: humpbacked salmonHumpbacked salmon
A small salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha which ascends the rivers of the Pacific coast from California to Alaska and also on the Asiatic side In the breeding season the male has a large dorsal hump and distorted jaws...
Salmon
Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera The common salmon Salmo salar of Northern Europe and Eastern North America and the California salmon or quinnat are the most important species They are extensively preserved for food See Quinnat...
Salmon Fishery
Salmon Fishery. See the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923, and the Amendment Act of 1929, which consolidated prior legislation, and FISHERY....
Quinnat
The California salmon Oncorhynchus choicha called also chouicha king salmon chinnook salmon and Sacramento salmon It is of great commercial importance...
Wear, or Weir
Wear, or Weir, a great dam or fence made across a river, or against water, formed of stakes interlaced by twigs of osier, and accommodated for the taking of fish, or to convey a stream to a mill. Prohibited by Magna Charta and other early statutes in navigable rivers, Lord Leconfield v. Earl of Lonsdale, (1870) LR 5 CP 657. Prohibited for the purpose of catching salmon by the Salmon Fishery Act, 1861, unless 'lawfully in use' at the time of the passing of that Act by virtue of a grant or charter or immemorial usage. Weirs and mill dams for taking or obstructing salmon and trout not in use before 1861 are prohibited: see Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Acts, 1923-35....
Onchorynchus
A genus of fishes including the sockeye salmon chinook salmon and coho salmon...
Trout
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 be...
Namaycush
A large North American lake trout Salvelinus namaycush It is usually spotted with red and sometimes weighs over forty pounds Called also Mackinaw trout lake trout lake salmon salmon trout togue and tuladi...
Nerka
The most important salmon of Alaska Oncorhinchus nerka ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon Washington and Idaho called also red salmon redfish blueback and sawqui...
Fishery
Fishery, the right to take fish. Fisheries are either free, common, or several. A free fishery is the exclusive right of fishing in a public river, and is a royal franchise, Common of fishery, or common of piscary, is the right of fishing in another man's water. A several fishery is the exclusive right of fishing in another man's water, and he that has it, according to Blackstone, 'must also be the owner of the soil' (2 Bl. Com. 40). This position of Blackstone, however, has been questioned, and the distinction between the various kinds of fishery is not clear; see Hrg. Co. Litt. 122 a, n. 7; Holford v. Bailey, (1846) 8 QB 1000; 13 ib. 426; Marshall v. Ulleswater Steam navigation Co., (1863) 3 B&S 732; Chesterfield (Earl) v. Harris, (1908) 2 Ch 397; 1911 AC 623; Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters; Leake on Uses and Profits of Land. No right can exist in the public to fish in an inland non-tidal lake, O'Neil v. Johnston, (1909) 1 Ir R 237.The fishing rights of the lord of the manor...
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