The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-31
GAME NARDHuS REPORT
They Recommend That the
Law be Uniform in All
Parts Of the State.
Special to the Jersey Citu Ne,rs.

TRENTON, Jan. 81, 1896@The Game
and Fish Department of New Jersey is
a pretty expensive one and it i%sSdoubtful
whether the results warrant such an out
lay of money. Last year there was ex-
pended $22, 527 for various purposes relat-
ing to fish and game. United States
Marshal George Pfeiffer of Camden is
the President of the Board Of Fish and
Game Commission, and H. P. Frothing-
nam IS the Secretary. The latter is an
enthusiastic sportsman, who lives at
Lake Hopatcong, and he has been very
active IN an effort to preserve the game
and fsh of New Jersey. 1t was largely
through his efforts that the new law was
passed last year.
In their annual. report which has been
submitted to the Legislature. the Com
missioners call attention to the fact that
there is perhaps no State in the Union
better adapted for the preservation of
fish n game thar the State of New
Jersey. They have e~ndeavored to show
the proof Of their convictions by their
work, Fifty thousand trout eggs were
secured from Providence, RI, and trans
ferrea to the hatchery of George Ricardo.
at Hackensack. Owing to the lateness
or the season many of these were lost,
put 23.216 trout were raised to a size
proper to be placed in h brooks and
yeloped 20,364, 300 smelts. and all of them.
with he exception 5000, 900 placed in The
tartan River at New Brunswick, were
p PAM ! % n the Haekensack River; The
River is looked after by the Federal
government. but the Commissioners nave
taken steps to resume the artificial prop
agation Of shad in HackensacK River
With gratifying results.
The Commission think that the supply
ana quality Of the@fish a been greatly
lakes Of the State during the pa 81 f ,ne
years, owing to that want of the infusion
Of oby daw O t55s s Aaort have been taken to
made to prevent the Increase of CARP
as they have driven from our waters far
more valuable indigenous fish. The pike
perch Is an enemyHf the spawn Of earn.
and this fish is being used to destroy
The Commission find there are serious
law dividing the State into two game
sections because the sportsmen Of that
section haye to wait until October rs to
shoot a,s woodcock, and the bird often takes
recommend an amendment giving the
sportsmen ten more days at the begin
ming Of the season thug opening the Sea
should apply also to upland plover and
dove, the open season for which now
begins on November !. They further rec
ommend the passage of a law by which
farmers and landowners may be permit
ted to make use of eel pots and eel bas-
kets placed at the bottom OF streams at
all times. of the year.
They want laws to protect Holsters TO
prohibit the erection of obstruction in
streams to protect striped bass, to pro-
hfbit the ounding Of rabbits, to regulate
of wardens SO there could be fewer man
on larger salaries, and a number of minor
amendments to the existing law. They
recommend the repeal of the charter Of
the West Jersey Fish and Game Protec-
tive Society," which repeater has already
been introduced. The charter provides
that no person shall gun or fish in the
six southern counties without having
first complied with such bylaws as this
society may have seen fit to enact. The
principal bylaw provides that non-resi-
dents must become member before thew
can gun or fish. but n NONRESIDENT can
attain membership upon the payment Of
So for the first year and So for each sub
ssquent year The Commission think
that to exclude a man from certain prfvi-
leges because he cannot afford IS, does
not speak well for our hospitality as a
State. The society, they are informed.
largely composed Of Philadelphia