Fiscal

what belongs to the fisc or public treasury. - FISH, an animal which inhabits the water exclusively. Fishes in rivers and in the seaare animals fere nature, and consequently no one has any property in them until they have been captured; and, like other wild animals, if having been taken they Sd escape, and regain their liberty, the captor loses his property in them. Vide Fer@ natura. The owner of a fishery in the lower part of the stream cannot construct any contrivance by which he will obstruct the passage of fish up the stream.

5 Pick. R. 199.