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The tackle of fishers may be seized.
Angler, on seizure of his tackle, exempt from penalty.
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25. If any person shall at any time be found fishing against the provisions of this Act, the owner of the ground, water, or fishery where such offender shall be so found, his servant, or any person authorized by him, may demand from such offender any rod, line, hook, net, or other implement for taking or destroying fish which shall then be in his possession, and, in case such offender shall not immediately deliver up the same, may seize and take the same from him for the use of such owner: Provided, that any person angling against the provisions of this Act, between the beginning of the last hour before sunrise and the expiration of the first hour after sunset, from whom any implement used by anglers shall be taken, or by whom the same shall be so delivered, up, shall by the taking or delivering thereof be exempted from the payment of any damages or penalty for such angling.
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