bar v Cp Fisheries of U S i, 448 for sense 2.
   1 To set the mechanism of an animal trap.
   [1772] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 219 I visited all the traps, four of which I found robbed, and fresh tailed and barred them.
   2 To place a net in a river, estuary or bay in order to trap fish.
   1867 Journ of Assembly Appendix, p. 719 From 1000 to 1500 barrels [of herring] could be barred in a few minutes. 1870 Stewart's Qtly iv, 147 There is a perceptible decrease in the quantity of salmon taken yearly in Newfoundland, and that the size of the fish is declining... It is the natural consequence of barring the brooks and rivers, when the fish are about to ascend them to spawn. 1881 Nineteenth Century ix, 107 The rivers are persistently barred and the salmon fisheries destroyed. 1895 GRENFELL 125-6 The river is not barred. It couldn't be barred. No nets would hold against it. 1946 MACKAY (ed) 349 The American fishermen had been guilty of three distinct breaches of the Newfoundland fishery regulations: first, they had used the forbidden seine nets; second, they had 'barred' during the prohibited season; third, they had 'barred' on a Sunday, a day on which fishing was illegal.

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