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Penalties for fishing, otherwise than by rod and line, for salmon or trout during annual close season for salmon and trout.
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127.—(1) If any person wilfully fishes or takes or aids or assists in taking or fishing for salmon or trout during the annual close season for salmon and trout, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine of not less than two pounds and not more than twenty-five pounds, together with a further fine of two pounds for every salmon or trout so taken by him.
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(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, every salmon and trout taken by him and every fishing engine in respect of which the offence was committed shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.
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