The River Fishing Act 1876
WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The Salmon Fishery Act, 1873," it was enacted that "no person between the first day of January and the twenty-fourth day of June, inclusive, shall hang, fix, or use in any salmon river any baskets, nets, traps, or devices for catching eels or the fry of eels:" And whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to elver fishing Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem...