Otter - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: otterSea otter
An aquatic carnivore Enhydris lutris syn Enhydris marina found in the North Pacific Ocean Its fur is highly valued especially by the Chinese It is allied to the common otter but is larger with feet more decidedly webbed...
Otter
Otter, a poaching device, the use of which for catching salmon, trout, or fresh-water fish is prohibited by the (English) Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 16), s. 1....
otterhound
A small hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat bred in England for hunting otters Called also otter dog...
Kalan
The sea otter...
Lutrinae
A subdivision of mammals including the otters it is not used in some classifications...
Mustelidae
A natural family of fissiped fur bearing carnivorous mammals including the weasels polecats ferrets minks fishers otters badgers skunks wolverines and martens...
Otter
A corruption of Annotto...
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...
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