The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-12
WHERE TO HUNT And FISH
Game Laws Have Been Com
piled By the State Com
missioners.

Especial to 1.-The Jersey City News.
TRENTON. July u, 1s9S.-The Board OF
Fish and Game Commissioners have Isl
sued a compilation OF the game laws,
which are of interest to all sportsmen-
The open season for game is as follows
Hare, rabbit and quail, from the 10th
of November to the 1st of January.
Woodcoek, July and October l to Decem-
Der 10.
Gray, English or Wilson snipe, March,
April and September.
Partridge, grouse and pheasant, Euro
pean and domestic, October / to Deem
Der 10.
Reed bird. rail bird, or marsh hen,
August 25 to December 81.
Gray, black and fox squirrels, Septem-
Der, November 10 to December 10.
Grass or upland plover and dove, August
and September.
HDeer, October % to November 5.
Geese. duck and other web-footed wild
| fowl. from the Goth Of September to the
LIST of May.
Brook trout from the 1st Of April to the
18th of July.
Black bass. from the soth Of May to the
S1st of November.
Pickerel, from the 1st of May to the goth
Of February.
The following are the classified ''un-
lawful acts
To take or attempt to take any game
| except by the use of guns held at arms
length, Fine, $50.
To take or to attempt to take any fish
in any manner except with hook and line,
| excepting spearing OF cells, suckers and
cap, taking minnows for bait with a
| seine not more than twenty-five feet
long, and taking cells with pots or bas-
kets or weirs between the 18th of Septem-
Der and the 1st of November, and except
ing, also, but only as to the tributaries
| of the Delaware above Trenton falls and
the streams flowing into such tributaries.
| the aking of catfish and cells with eel
weirs and baskets and setlines between
| the 18th of August and the 1st of Novem-
| Der. Fine, $50.
To have trapped game in possession.
Fine, 500.
To hunt on Sunday or carry firearms
in the fields or woods on Sunday. Fine,
$50.
To pollute streams or use indicated
| bait or explosives of any kind for the
| taking of fish. Fine, $500 to $500.
10 QTdW Oit WdteIS u dhS > 4 ny
from SIS to $3.50.
To use set liners in waters inhabited
by pickerel, bass, perch or trout. Fine,
$25.
To permit the erection of maintenance
of unlawful contrivances for taking
game and fish: appliances to lessees or
tenants of lands. Fine, $25.
To capture, kill, injure or to have in
| possession any birds. excepting English
| sparrows, cranes. hawks. crows ravens,
crow. blackbirds. kingfishers and red
winged blackbirds. Fine, $40.
To hunt geese, ducks or any web
footed wild fowl. except between one hour
before sunrise and one hour after sun
set. 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 SO.
Dealers have 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 sub
ject of legal enactment, are recognized
as binding laws of ehavior by all re-
putable lovers of the pursuit of game and
fish,
Never violate the letter or spirit of the
| game laws.
Never take more fish or game than you
have convenient use for.
Never be i~nsolent or impolite to a land
| owner who orders you off his premises;
| for although he may not own the game
or fish you are after he has the right to
exclusive possession of his property.
Never fail to destroy a net or trap when
you find one set.
Never shoot at a game bird except on
wing.
Never kill the last quail in a covey;
leave some to breed next year.
Never forget that game laws are intend
ed to improve and Increase sport, and not
to prevent or restrict It.