Halakhah for Beitzah 3:1

אֵין צָדִין דָּגִים מִן הַבֵּיבָרִין בְּיוֹם טוֹב, וְאֵין נוֹתְנִין לִפְנֵיהֶם מְזוֹנוֹת. אֲבָל צָדִין חַיָּה וָעוֹף מִן הַבֵּיבָרִין, וְנוֹתְנִין לִפְנֵיהֶם מְזוֹנוֹת. רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר, לֹא כָל הַבֵּיבָרִין שָׁוִין. זֶה הַכְּלָל, כָּל הַמְחֻסָּר צִידָה אָסוּר, וְשֶׁאֵינוֹ מְחֻסָּר צִידָה מֻתָּר:

Fishes may not be "hunted" from fisheries on yom tov. [Even though slaughtering, baking, and cooking are among the avoth melachoth (proto-labors) and are permitted for yom tov needs, hunting is similar to harvesting, and harvesting was not permitted on yom tov.] And food is not placed before them [the fishes; for they can survive without it and there is no obligation to feed them.] But animals and birds [which were prepared the day before] may be hunted from [small] vivariums [where they are readily hunted.] R. Shimon b. Gamliel says: Not all vivaria are alike. [R. Shimon b. Gamliel does not come to differ with the first tanna but to explain his meaning.] This is the rule: Whatever is not readily hunted [i.e., where trapping stratagems must be devised] is forbidden; and whatever is readily hunted [i.e., what can be caught with one bound] is permitted.

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