The morning news., 1889-03-30
TO PROTECT THE G AME.
What the Game Protective Associa-
ton Is Doing.

What the Game Protective AsSocia-
ton Is Doing.
The game season closes tomorrow. A
meeting of the Georgia Protective Game
Association will be held some time during
the coming week for the purpose of taking
steps to carry out the law preventing the
shooting and trapping of game under the
law. Every influence will oe used to have
tae law rigidly enforced. The law will be
in effect until October, and there Is strong
desire among sportsmen to have the game
during this season protected. Any person
who may be discovered with game In his
possession after April l will be prosecuted
Secretary K. r. DancY of the Georgia
Protective Game Association sal ye,ter
day that the amend nent t. the existing
game law, which was drafted by the assO-
citation some months ago and placed In the
hands OF the representatives from this
county, will no doubt ecome a law at the
next session Of the legislature in July. The
amendment prohibits the trappiI z of game,
not oaly during the months out of season,
but in seas m as we'll. No law has ever
been esta abished prohibiting trapping game,
and the consequence is that nine-tenths of the
game brought to Savannah is trapped. In
tue course of sea,on an abund6 ice OF
game comes to this marke- and the associa-
tion believes that if no Interdict is placed on
the wholesale trapping of birds and other
game, in a short while there will be no game
in the country.
The trapping law provides that when a
person is found in possession of a live bird,
or other game, traceable to the trap, such
person will be held amenable to the law,
nOtwithsta ding the game may have been
purchased Of auotner. the law will hold
tie person in whose possession the game is
found responsible. No nu ltsr kills the last
bird in NOR in hut IA irSf
the half Of the covsy, unless it DO a small
one. By this means the gu ,ntity of game
killed duri z a season will not threaten its
extinction.
The law will shortly be amended touching
fishing during tho spawning season, and
also to make it prob bitory for Foreigners to
fish in waters in the state. This law will
apply chiefly to shad fishing. No law has
ever been enforced, Secretary Dancy says,
against fishing for shad at any season, and
the result is that shad are becoming less
plentiful In Savannah waters Nets are
placed all aloug up and down the river,
rendering it almost impossible for the fish
to make their way up the stream, where
they 60 during the spawning season.
What few fish escape the nets do not spa Vn
In deep water, or at least not successfully,
and those that get up the river In the
spawning season are caught before they are
larger than herring. The law will also
provide against the catching of shad under
a certain sizs. The fish and bird season
begin and end about the same time.
Secretary Da cy has written the secre-
tary of the South Carolina Game Associs-
citation asking its cooperation in this mat
ter. If the two associations unite, fishing
on either side of tne Savannah river out Of
season may he preveen ed. The sportsnen
are deter mined to have some resta mt
thrown around the wholesale hauls and
catches of game aud fsl.