The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-06-29
Synopsis Of the Fish Laws Oi
South Carolina.

is .ex.oficio Fish Commissioner. and
is required to appoint two Or Inore
Fish Wardens in every county of thr
State, who shall aid in the detection
and prosecution of all offenders against
the fishing laws, and they shall rcce'V,
one-half of the penalty recovered anC
paid in cor Any ofense against saio
laws detected by them. Sec A. y
1878, No. l04, Sec. II.
The Fish Cow missioner is autho
rized to make and use such means OF
modes as be uay hiok best for pro-
pogating the native fishes Of this
State. A. A. 1878, No. 600, Sec.
3 There shall be close time In all
the creeks, streams and iulaud waters
of this State from the setting of the
sun each Thursday until the rising OF
She sun On Tuesday. during which tiole
all ssines, nets, or any plan or device
for the stoppage or collecting OF
fish which obstructs any creek, stream
or inland waters, other than a dam
fer manufacturing purposes, shall be
removed from said creeks, streams or
waters, and the owner IN whole or 10
part of any such obstruction, plan or
device, during the period aforesaid.
shall be deemed guilty of a nisde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof
before any Court of competent jurlS.
diction ahall be fined IN the sun Of
TWO hundred dollars, one-half to 60 70
the informer aud the other half to the
County. < * A. \. lS77-7S,
No. 494,
It is unlawful for any persou
10 the counties of Marion, Horny,
Darlington, Clarendon, Georgetown,
Williamsburg, Richland, to fish with
nets and gigs or set traps in any Of
the fresh water rivers. creeks or lakes
ip said Counties between the 10th day
cf April and the lst day of Septeu'-
Der, A. 4. fS77-7S, No. 2713; \. \.
.1S7S, No. SEQ, aud \. y. 1870, No.
l13.
At no tine during the year shall
there be any permanent distractions
of any kind or nature whatever ID any
of the inland creeks, streams or waters
of the State to the free migration of
fish.
Heavy penalties are imposed upon
any person or persons who cause I'M
pprities destructive to fish to be cast
into or flow into aoy of the creeks,
streams or iplaud voters of the State.
A. A. lS7O-7l, No. 3677.
It is the duty Of the Fish Wardens
to enforce these laws, under the d.
reetion Of the Com missioner. 4. A.
1879, No. l04, Sec Il.
All manufacturing companies or
persons who have erected. or may
erect, artificial dams across the Inland
creeks, streams or waters of this State,
which prevent the uis ratory fish from
ascending the same, shall construct
proper fsh-Bays over the same; and
should such manufacturing companies
or persons refuse or fail so to do, they
shall be liable to fine of FIVE thou
sand dollars.
It shall be the duty of the Con-
missioner of the Bureau Of Agricul-
tural Statistics TO designate the fish
sluices on the several rivers, so as to
leave one or more passages for fish
up the said river, which sluices shall
be sixty feet vide, OF, where there are
two or more such sluices, they shall
be, together, sixty feet wide; and
where they shall be so designated, it
shall be lawful for any person to open
such sluices and if any person shall
obstruct any such s!uice: when once
opened, so as to prevent the free pas
sage of fish up the same and every
branch thereof, be shall be deemed
guilty of a public nuisance, and on
conviction thereof in the Court of
General Sessions shall be fined Que
hundred dollars, aud sbal! stand con-
mitted until such fine shall be paid,
for time not exceeding ten days, at
the discretion of the Court before
which such conviction may take place.
One-half of the fine shall be paid to
the inforuer and the other half iuto
the Treasury of the State.
Whenever a fish sluice in any Of
the rivers as aforesaid shall have been
designated aforesaid, any stoppage OF
the same shall be regarded as public
nuisance, and may be aba;ed as such.
1t shall not be lawful for any non
resident of this State to * =
set trap, seine or net, or draw or
use the same, OF any other coutrivance
for taking or killing fish, within the
territorial limits of this State.
Revised Statutes S. c., Chapter
LXXVII, Sections 2, + and q.