The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-04
The Fish and Game Laws.
CHAPTER 37,.

CHAPTER SIS.
AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF
FISH IN THE INLAND WATERS OF
THE STATE.
TIE feQble Of the State Of Wiscons5n,
represented TN Senate and Assem6Iy,
do enact as fol20ws:-
Section I. No person or persons
shall be allowed to set, place, or use
any gill, fyke, pound, seine, dip, or
other net or snare in the inland
lakes, rivers, Or streams of the state
of Wisconsin Except fish known as
white fish may be taken with q dip
net having a hoop not exceeding
thirty inches in diameter, between
the tenth day Of November and the
fifteenth day of December in each
Year, The inland lakes, rivers and
streams shall be construed as mean
ing all waters within the Jurisdiction
of the state, except Lake Superior,
Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Stur-
geon Bay, that part of Fox River ly-
ing between Green Bay and the dam
at Depere, and private ponds. This
act shall not be construed to prevent
the catching of minnows, sinners,
club, dace, suckers, or stickleback
for bait by means of dip nets or
seines Of not more than fifty feet in
length, nor more than three feet in
depth.
Sec. 2. No person or persons
shall be allowed to fish for, catch or
kill with any device, nor shall any
person or persons offer for sale or
sell, or buy or have in their posses
sion any brook trout, mountain trout,
rainbow trout, mackinaw trout, pike,
plckerel, or black bass during their
spawning season. The spawning or
closed season shall be construed as
follows: Brook, rainbow and noun
tain trout, from the first day of Sep
TENDER to the fifteenth day Of April.
Macklnaw trout Commonly called
lake trout, from the first day of o.
tober to the first day in December.
Pike commonly called wall-eyed
plke), from the first day of April to
the first day Of May Pickerel, from
the first day of March to the first day
of May. Black bass, from the first
day of March to the first day of June.
This act shall not be construed to
prevent the buying or selling of fish
or possessing fish during such
spawning season, that have been
raised in private ponds or caught in
other than inland waters of the state.
Sec. 3. No person or persons
shall be allowed to catch, kill or take
any fish in any of the waters in the
State by means of dynamite, or other
explosives, or spear, except that a
spear may be used in the waters of
the Mississippi River and sloughs,
and also spear may be used in the
waters of Lake Winnebago, Fox and
Wolf Rivers for sturgeon only.
Sec. 4. No person shall catch for
sale, or offer for sale, or barter for
the purpose of shipping out of the
State, any brook, rainbow or noun
tain trout caught in the public wa
tiers of the State, nor shall any per-
son or persons catch, kill or take any
brook, rainbow OF mountain trout
from any of the public waters of the
State by means of any other device
than hook and line or angling, nor
shall any person or persons catch,
kill or take, or have in their posses
sion any brook, rainbow or mountain
trout of less than six inches in
length, taken from the public waters
of the State.
Sec. S. The Board of Fish Com
missioners, or their authorized agents
may take at all seasons, and in any
way, fish from the public waters for
the purpose of artificial propagation.
Sec. 6. Any person or persons
violating any of the provisions of