Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-04-05
THE NEW FISH law.
Commissioner Barrett Talks OF the
New Law for Protection of Fish
In the State.
Government Begins This Week Upon
the Weighing. of the Mails
Along the Road.
A New United State Prison-Various
Items of Local News About
the Capital City.
The New Fish Law.

Superintendent W. w. Barrett gives
some interesting facts regarding the new
fish law passed by the last session Of the
Legislature, and a concise summary of
the whole.
Numerous persons have of late made
inquiry" he says, "as to the provisions
made by the last session of the legisla.
tive assembly in regard to fish culture in
our state, and that a general reply may
be given, I would be pleased to be heard
in your Journal.
"All law relating to fish and game
were repealed. Provision was then made
for the protection Of game, by the crea-
ton Of a new office. Senator Fuller's
bill, No. 1859, that passed and has been
approved by our governor, makes the
state superintendent of irrigation and
forestry the state fish commissioner of
North Dakota. He has the entire con-
troll of fish culture throughout the state.
1t is made his duty to secure from the
national government o. otherwise, as his
judgment may dictate, or conditions may
allow, such fish as may be suitable for
the stocking of the waters of North Da-
kota. And it also becomes his duty,
operating through the peace officers of
the state, to see to the protection of the
fish in all parts of the state.
mo fish a be legally taken from any
OF the waters of North Dakota. including
the Missouri and the Red rivers, except
by means of a hook and line. (Under
the old law fish could be legally taken
from these rivers-the Missouri and the
Red-by means Of nets OF any other de-
vice.)' Pike, pickerel, perch, bass and
muskellunge are protected from Novem-
Der LIST to May LIST of following year. No
fish can be legally shipped out of the
| state.
Upon conviction for every fish caught,
taken or killed, or for every fish sold or
exposed for sale, from Nov. 1 to May 1
of the next year, the punishment is as
follows: For the first ofense a fine of
no less than SIS and no more than S25.
and for every subsequent %offense an i'm
prisonmentin the county Jail not exceed
ing thirty days, OF by a fine of not less
than $40 and not more than 800, or both.
For shipment beyond the limit of the
state, $40 for each fish shipped or re-
ceived for shipment.
"By this new law rs. B. 1867 it is made
unlawful for any person to take or kill,
in any whatever, even with a
hook and line, any fish at or within 500
feet, measured up or down the stream,
at any mill dam or fish sluice-way in
North Dakota, and for every fish there
caught or destroyed, or for every fish
taken or destroyed by a hook and line in
any parts of the state, in excess Of twenty
i've, by any one person in any n day,
the punishment, upon conviction, will be
no less than $40 and no more than S25
and the cost of prosecution, or by i'm
prlsopment in the county Jail nc less
than thirty nor more than ninety days,
or both fire and imprisonment, and in
addition, every net or other unlawful
device found IN use in the taking of fish
at these points or at any other place in
the state, shall be seized and destroyed
by the officer intrusted with the duty"
1--WE have in our state many fresh
water lakes, ctreams and rivers which
contain favorable conditions for fish cul-
ture, and under the operation of this
law IS. B. 1907, good progress should be
made in the propagation and increase
of fish for the benefit of the peo-
pie, if they can be secured in sufficient
quantities from the United States COM
missioner of fish and fisheries, and that
gentleman has given me strong assurance
that he will furnish all the fish for our
state waters that can possibly be spared.
An emergency clause is attached to
Senate Bill No. 1862"
Two More Birds.
Sheriff H. M. Jones and Deputy Ben
nett, Of LaMoure county, brought two
quite noted prisoners to the city Thurs.
day morning, and turned them over to
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