The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-07
FISH And GAME LAWS shot BY An 'lDMIRBR
What You Can Shoot and Catch
This Month in New
Jersey.
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TRENTON, Jun z, lSs7.-The Board of
Fish and Game Commissioners Of New
Jersey have prepared and published in
pocket card form a brief synopsis of the
Fish and Game laws, showing what is
unlawful to do for the guidance Of sports
men. The open and close seasons for
hare. RABBIT and quail begins November
10 and ends December 81; for woodeock,
July, October. November to December 10;
for gray, English or Wilson snipe. March.
April. September; for partridge, grouse
and pheasant. European and domestic,
october, November to December 10: for
reed bird. rail bird or marsh hen. Sep
TENDER; for gray black and fox squirrels.
September, November 10 to December
10; for grass or upland plover and
dove, August and September, for deer.
October rs to November S; for geese.
ducks and other web-footed wild fowl.
January February, March and April to
May /, n September 80 to December
81; brook trout, April. May, Tune to July
Is; black bass, May 30 up to November
30; pickerel. January to February 20, and
from May ! to the last day of December.
Appended are the things which it is
always unlawfu to do, as the official
pocket card recites:-
70 taEe or attempt TO take any game
length. Fined, $50.
10 take or to attempt to take any fish
in any manner excepting with hook n
line, excepting spearins of cells. suckers
and carp, taking minnows for bait with
a seine not more than twenty-five feet
long, and taking cells with pots or
baskets or weirs between the 18th of
September and the 1st Of November, n
excepting also, but only as to the
tributaries of the Delaware above Tren-
ton Falls and the streams flowing into
such tributaries, the taxing of catfish and
cells vita cells weirs and baskets and set
lines between the 18th of August and the
LIST OF November. Fine, $50.
To have trapped game in possession.
Fine, s20.
in the fields or woods on Sunday. Fine,
$50.
To pollute streams or use medicated
bait or explosives of Nny kind for the
taking Of fish. Fine, 800 to $500.
To draw off waters to take fish. Fine,
from $25 to $3.50.
To use set lines in waters inhabited by
plckerel. bass, perch or trout, Fine, $25.
To permit the erection or maintenance
of unlawful contrivances for taking game
and fish; applies to lessees or tenants of
To capture, kill, injure or to nave in
possession any birds, excepting English
sparTows,. ranes hawks, crows, ravens,
crow-blackbirds,. kingfshers and red
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To hunt geese, ducks or any w~eb-footed
wild fowl, except between one hour be-
fore sunrise and one Jour after sunset.
Fine, S25.
To catch or keep trout less than six
inches In length, or black bass less than
nine inches in length. Fine, $40.
To hunt on posted land. Fine not less
than $40.
Dealers nave thirty days after the
close of the season in which to dispose
of game.
To the above may be added the follow
Ing prohibitions, which, while not the
subject of legal enactment, are recognized
as binding laws of behavior by all re-
putable lovers of the pursuit of game
and fish,
Never violate the letter or spirit of the
gaune laws.
Never take more fish or game than you
have convenient use for.
Never be insolent or irnpolite to a land
owner who orders you off his premises;
for. although he may not own the game
or nsh you are after, he has the right to
exclusive possession of his property.
Never fail to destroy a nest or trap
when you find one set.
Never shoot at a game bird except on
wing.
leave some to breed next year.
Never forget that game laws are in
tended to improve and increase sport.
and not to prevent or restrict it.