Section 176 - Poisoning or using dynamite in river

A person commits a criminal offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty penalty units, who

(a) throws a substance poisonous to fish into a river, stream, or lagoon, in order to poison or stupefy the fish, or

(b) turns or obstructs a river or stream, for the purpose of taking or destroying fish, or

(c) throws a substance poisonous to fish into a part of the sea at the mouth of a river or stream running into the sea, for the purpose of poisoning, stupefying, taking or destroying fish, or

(d) uses dynamite or any other explosive substance to catch or destroy fish in a river, stream, or lagoon, or

(e) uses a mode of catching fish which tends to destroy the fish in a river, stream or lagoon.