No person shall draw, set or use any net, seine, pound net, fyke net or set net in any of the waters of Long Island Sound adjacent to the town of Stratford and within three hundred feet of the high water mark, nor in any creek or tributary thereof, from the southerly side of the Bridgeport airport canal, thence southerly along the shore line at Short Beach and along the shore line to Stratford Point lighthouse, so called, and thence westerly along said shore line to the boundary line between the town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport. No provision of this subsection shall prohibit the catching of menhaden or the taking of eels, crabs or bait fish in nets, as authorized by statute.