Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-05-24
FISH AND GAME LAWS.
COMMISSIONER ROCKINGHAM STATES
WHAT is ALWAYS UNLAWFUL
UNDER STATUTES.


COMMISSIONER ROCKINGHAM STATES
i WHAT IS ALWAYS UNLAWFUL
UNDER STATUTES.
The tanglement and uncertainty of the
fish and game laws of this state has caused
considerable trouble for the followers OF
the rod and gun.
Commissioners Rockingham has issued
the following interesting guide for the pub
| lie and, if followed, will come very near
being the substance of the statutes of the
state:
To take or attempt to take any game
except By the use of guns held at arms
length. Fine, $50.
To take or attempt 10 take any fish in
any manner excepting with hook ard line,
excepting spearing of cells, suckers and
carp, taking minnows for bait with a seine
not more than twenty fve feet long, and
taking eels with pots or baskets or weirs
between the fifteenth of September and
the first of November, and excepting also,
but only as to the tributaries of the Della
ware above Trenton Falls and the streams
flowing into such tributaries, the taking of
catfish and cells with eel weirs and baskets
and setlines between the fifteenth of
August and the first of November. Fine
$50
ITO have trapped game in possession.
Fine $50.
To hunt on Sunday or carry firearms
in the fields or woods on Sunday or to
hunt for quail, partridge or rabbits when
there is tracking snow on the ground.
Fine $40.
To pollute streams or use medicated
bait or explosives of any kind tor the tax
ing of fish. Fine, 500 to $500.
To draw off waters to take fish. Fine,
from $25 to $3.50.
i" To use set lines in water inhabited by
pickerel, bass, perch or trout. Fine, $50
To use any contrivance in fishing having
more than three hooks or one burr of three
hooks Fine, $40 The latter law goes
into effect July A. 1900.
To permit the erection or maintenance
of unlawful contrivances for taking game
and fish ; applies to lessees or tenants of
lands. Fine, $25
To use carp for bait or in any other
way to put carp in fresh waters. Fine,
not less than 5000
To capture, kill or iDiure or to have in
possession any insectiYorous birds except
| ing English sparrows, cranes, hawks, crows,
ravens, crow black birds, kipgfshers and
To hunt geese, ducks or any web-footed
wild fowl, except between one hour before
sunrise and one hour after sunset. Fine,
$25
ITO catch or keep trout less than six
inches in length, or black bass less than
nine inches in length Fine, $40. To kill
or keep pike perch less than twelve inches
in length, or white bass less than nine
inches in length. Fine. $40 The law as
to pike perch and white bass does not go
into effect until July 4, 1900
ITO hunt en- posted land. Fine not less
than $40.
Dealers have thirty days after the close
of the season in which to dispose of game
+" To the above may be added the fol-
lowing prohibitions, which while not the
subject of legal enactment, are recognized
as binding laws of behaviour by all repu-
table lovers OF the pursuit OF game and
fish;
I" Never violate the letter or spirit of the
game laws
Never take more fish or game than you
have convenient use for.
Never be insolent 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.
Meyer shoot at game bird except on
wing.
Never kill the last quail in covey
leave some to breed next year.