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Flounder 2022 - Can't take the Kings Fish
Don't you dare even think about keeping one because the Gestapo and SS are watching 
Flounder Bag & Length Limits
Valid Sep. 1, 2022 through Aug. 31, 2023. All species, their hybrids and subspecies
Daily Bag: 5 Min Length: 15 inches Max Length:
No limit Daily bag is 5 fish except Nov 1 - Dec 14 fishery closed; bag limit = 0.
Possession limit = the daily bag.
It was ILLEGAL to hunt the King's deer! Gotta control the Serfs!
Back in the Middle Ages King William the Conqueror had declared large areas of England to be Royal Forests — his personal property, where the only people allowed to hunt deer were himself and his friends. Penalties for poaching deer, or other game animals, within a Royal Forest were strict and severe, as was felling timber within the area. Killing one of the King’s deer could be punished by death.
While the original idea behind the Forests was to set up private hunting parks for the King, over the years they became quite profitable in their own right. The King could sell or lease hunting rights in a specific part of the Forests to one of his nobles. Common folk might be given permission to gather firewood or pasture pigs in the Forest, in return for rents. The situation became quite complex: no fewer than five clauses of Magna Carta laid down reforms to the Forest Laws and their administration.
By the early 1600s the Royal Forests still existed, but they were an anachronism. Restrictions on activities within the forests now had more to do with preserving timber stocks for shipbuilding than with preventing the hunting of deer.
During the reigns of James I and Charles I, a policy of disafforestation was followed. That is, many of the old mediaeval Royal Forests had that status revoked, and the land was then sold or leased to wealthy associates of the King in return for money for the royal treasury. (In other words, many of the Royal Forests were privatised.)
Residents who had traditional rights in the Forests, such as collecting firewood or pasturing pigs, normally lost those rights once the land was sold off to private owners. They might be eligible for compensation if they could prove legal title to their forest rights: but virtually no ordinary peasants had the paperwork to prove such a thing, even if they had the money to hire a lawyer.
The inevitable result was that thousands of poor people lost their livelihood. Anger and hardship were widespread, and riots broke out in many places, with the new fences and hedges enclosing the privatised land being vandalised. The Western Rising between 1626 and 1632 was particularly notable, though the violence was directed against property, not people. However, the protests failed to prevent the policy of disafforestation, and anger would simmer and be part of the motivation for rebellion during the English Civil War in 1642 and after. Source
Flounder Bag & Length Limits
Valid Sep. 1, 2022 through Aug. 31, 2023. All species, their hybrids and subspecies
Daily Bag: 5 Min Length: 15 inches Max Length:
No limit Daily bag is 5 fish except Nov 1 - Dec 14 fishery closed; bag limit = 0.
Possession limit = the daily bag.
It was ILLEGAL to hunt the King's deer! Gotta control the Serfs!
Back in the Middle Ages King William the Conqueror had declared large areas of England to be Royal Forests — his personal property, where the only people allowed to hunt deer were himself and his friends. Penalties for poaching deer, or other game animals, within a Royal Forest were strict and severe, as was felling timber within the area. Killing one of the King’s deer could be punished by death.
While the original idea behind the Forests was to set up private hunting parks for the King, over the years they became quite profitable in their own right. The King could sell or lease hunting rights in a specific part of the Forests to one of his nobles. Common folk might be given permission to gather firewood or pasture pigs in the Forest, in return for rents. The situation became quite complex: no fewer than five clauses of Magna Carta laid down reforms to the Forest Laws and their administration.
By the early 1600s the Royal Forests still existed, but they were an anachronism. Restrictions on activities within the forests now had more to do with preserving timber stocks for shipbuilding than with preventing the hunting of deer.
During the reigns of James I and Charles I, a policy of disafforestation was followed. That is, many of the old mediaeval Royal Forests had that status revoked, and the land was then sold or leased to wealthy associates of the King in return for money for the royal treasury. (In other words, many of the Royal Forests were privatised.)
Residents who had traditional rights in the Forests, such as collecting firewood or pasturing pigs, normally lost those rights once the land was sold off to private owners. They might be eligible for compensation if they could prove legal title to their forest rights: but virtually no ordinary peasants had the paperwork to prove such a thing, even if they had the money to hire a lawyer.
The inevitable result was that thousands of poor people lost their livelihood. Anger and hardship were widespread, and riots broke out in many places, with the new fences and hedges enclosing the privatised land being vandalised. The Western Rising between 1626 and 1632 was particularly notable, though the violence was directed against property, not people. However, the protests failed to prevent the policy of disafforestation, and anger would simmer and be part of the motivation for rebellion during the English Civil War in 1642 and after. Source