Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Government may make rules for the purposes hereinafter in this section mentioned and may, by a. notification in the Gazette, apply all or any of such rules to such waters, not being private waters, as the Government may specify in the said notification. (2) The Government may also by a like notification, apply such rules or any of them to any private water with the consent in writing of the owner thereof and of all persons having for the time being any exclusive right of fishery therein. (3) Such rules may prohibit all fishing in any specified water except under a license granted by the Government and in accordance with such terms and conditions as may be specified therein. (4) Such rules may also prohibit or regulate either permanently, or for a time or for specified seasons only, all or any of the following matters, that is to say:- (a) the erection and use of fixed engines; (b) the construction of weirs; (c) the dimension and kind of the contrivances to be used for taking fish generally, or any specified kind of fish and the modes of using such contrivances; (d) the minimum size or weight below which no fish of any prescribed species shall be killed; (e) the variety, description or power of lights used for fishing; and (f) the destruction of fish or depletion of fisheries by pollution by trade or industrial effluents. (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), (2), (3) or (4), the Government may for the purpose of preserving or protecting fish in any area, make rules restricting, regulating or otherwise controlling fishing in private waters generally, and they may by notification in the Gazette apply all or any of such rules to such private waters as they may specify in the said notification after giving notice to the owners thereof and to all persons having or believed to have an exclusive right of fishing therein and after hearing their objections, if any. (6) In making any rule under this section the Government may provide for- (a) the seizure, forfeiture and removal of any fixed engines erected or used or nets or other contrivances used for fishing in contravent on of the rules, and (b) the forfeiture of any fish taken by means of any such fixed engine or nets or other contrivances.