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FOYLE FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 48

Penalties for taking, buying, etc., unseasonable salmon or trout.

48.(1) Every person who at any time wilfully takes, kills, destroys, buys,
sells, exposes for sale or has in his custody or possession any unclean or
unseasonable salmon or trout, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act
and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one
hundred pounds or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding [six] months or
to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(2) Where a person is charged with taking a salmon or trout in contravention
of this section it shall be a good defence to prove that such salmon or trout
was taken accidentally, and was returned without injury to the water
immediately upon being taken.

Obstructing persons lawfully fishing.

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