The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-02-02
4 NEW F1sH Bill.
introduced in Both Houses on Thurs
day Last.

nah, presenting it in the house, ant
Senator steiwer of Gillian, in the sen
ate.
The purpose of the bill is to repea
the present fish and game law, the fish
commission, and the Sunday closing
provisi now enacted. 1t provides
for the licensing OF all canneries, traps
wheels and nets, makes the close sea
son correspond with the recommends
tions of Commissioner McDonald's re-
port, and creates the Office Of fish COM
misslo loner, to be appointed by the gov
ernor. 1t also repeals the acts proVid'
ing for the protection OF game, fish and
song birds, and the appointment of a
fish and game protector, and also the
act providing for the propagation and
preservation of salmon and food fishes
in the public waters of the state of
Oregon.
The new bill is said to meet with
general approval, and copies of 1t will
be taken to the joint legislative COM
mittee on fishing industries, to meet in
Tacoma on Sunday, and submitted to
a similar committee of the Washington
legislature at a conference to be there
held for the purpose of securing effect
i've concurrent legislation needed by
both states
The main features of the bill are as
follows:
Section lit shall not be lawful to
take or fish for salmon in the Columbia
river or its tributaries or within three
miles of the mouth of said Columbia
river, by any means whatever, in any
year hereafter, between the first day
of March, and the 25th day of April, or
between the first day of August and
the 10th day of September; provided,
that it shall not be lawful at any time
within five years next after the approv-
al of this act, to take or fish for salmon
by any means whatever in the Clack-
amas river, the Sandy river, the Des
Chutes river, or within 1000 feet of the
mouth of the Clackamas river.
1t shall be unlawful for any person
to take or fish for salmon in any of
the waters of the state of oregon, or
in any OF the waters upon which the
state has concurrent jurisdiction, at
any time hereafter, by any means
whatever, except with hook and line,
or to can or otherwise pack salmon on
other food fishes, without first having
obtained a license therefor as hereinaf-
ter provided.
Section makes it unlawful to catch,
kill or destroy any salmon on, or within
one mile below any rock or other OBJ
struction erected across any river or
stream for the purpose of obtaining
fish for propagation.
Section Sit shall not be lawful for
any person or persons to take or fish |
for salmon in the waters of the Neha> |
lem, Tillamook, Nestucca, Salmon, ST.
letz, Yaquina, Alsea, Siuslaw, Umpqua,
Coos Bay, Coquille, Skies, Elk, Chetco,
Rogue River, Windchuck, or any of |
their tributaries, or in any other bays
or streams of the state, except the Col
umbia river and its tributaries, from J
tine first day of November, until the
18th day of December, or between the
18th day of April and the first day of
June.
Section At shall not be lawful for
any pound net, set trap, set net, trap
weir, or other appliance for taking
fish, to extend more than one-third of
the way across the breadth of any
stream, channel or slough at the time
and place of such fishing.
Section Sit shall not be lawful to
cast or pass, or allow to be cast or
passed, into any waters of this state
into which salmon or trout are wont
to be, any lime, gas, coculus indicus,
or any other substance deleterious to
fish.
Section Cit Shall be unlawful for
any person or persons to receive or
have in his or their possession, or sell,
or offer for sale, or transportation or
during the close season nam
ed in this act any chinook, steelhead,
blueback. silverside, or other species OF
no matter when or where the
same may be caught or taken.
Section provides for the construc-
ton or fishways or ladders to enable
salmon to pass over the distractions.
Section makes it unlawful to throw
sawdust, planer shavings, etc., into any
of the waters of the state.
Sections 10 and IL make it unlawful
to place any fishwheel, trapnet, etc., in
any of the rivers during the close sea-
son.
Section 12-It shall be the duty of
Ill persons who purchase fish from
fishermen or takers or catchers of fish
for the purpose of selling them again
for profit, to report to the fish commits
sioner, on OF before the 18th day of
each year hereafter, the number OF
every species of fish. stated separately,
so purchased by them, and the price
paid for each fish, and if purchased by
weight, the number Of pounds and the
price per pound.
Section 1S-Any person desiring a H.
,ense under the provisions of this act
shall present in writing to the fish
an application therefor,
md such application shall state that
the applicant is citizen of the United
States. or has declared his intention
to become such one year prior to the
making OF the application. and that he
S and has been for six months next
prior to the making of such application,
IN actual, bona fide resident of the
state Of Oregon.
Every person to whom a license shall
De issued under this act shall pay there
FOR a license fee as follows:
For each gillnet and setnet for which
IfoapSa 10 iseued the sum of S2s0