Power to make rules

(1) The State Government may make rules for the purpose of carrying out the provisions in this Act and also for the purposes given hereunder. (2) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, apply such rules or any of them to any private waters with the consent in writting of the owner thereof or all persons having for the time being any exclusive right of fishery therein; Provided that no such rules made under this section shall apply to any religious waters. (3) Such rules may,— (a) prohibit or regulate; (i) the erection and use of fixed engines; (ii) the construction, temporary or permanent, of weirs, dams and bunds; (iii) the dimention, size of mesh and kinds of nets to be used and the mode of using them; (iv) the use of more than one method of catching fish at one time; (b) Prohibit the destruction of, or any attempt to destroy fishes by explosives, gun, bow, arrow, or the like in inland waters. (c) prohibit the destruction of or any attempt to destroy fishes by using a chemical or any other substances likely to cause polution of water. (d) prohibit the throwing of into any water of any solid or liquid which may be harmful to fishes in such water; (e) prohibit fishing except under a licence and regulate the grant of such licence, the fees payable thereof. (f) prohibit sale or purchase of fish or transport or movement of fish within or outside the State in excess of the prescribed quantity under a licence; (g) prescribe the seasons during which— (i) the killing or catching of fish or any prescribed species shall be prohibited; (ii) sale, movement or transport of any prescribed species shall be prohibited except under a licence; (h) regulate the grant of licences under clause (g), or prescribe the fees payable thereof and the conditions to be attached thereto; and (i) prescribe minimum size or weight below which no fish of any prescribe species shall be sold. (4) Such rules may also prohibit all fishing in any specified waters for a specified period.