The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-05-17
New Game and Fish Law BY Attorney
0eseraI Tsylor.
Evansville Courier Bureau, I
INDIANAPOLIS, MAY II.

0eseral Tsylor.
Evansville Courier Bureau, I
INDIANAPOLIS, May II. I
Attorney General William l..
\ Taylor has received from all over
Indiana and from the northern part
OF the state especially requests for
interpretations Of the new fish law.
In response he submits to The Cou-
rier the following concise statement
OF what may and what may not he
done under the law, in the hore
that its publication in The Courit Z
may reach many southern Indiana
|inquirers.
First-It is unlawful to permit
dye stuff, acid or other refuse to be
thrown, run or drained into any wa.
ters OF the state in sufficient quanti-
ties to injure Or destroy fish.
Second--It is unlawful to use
dynamite or other explosives.
Third--lt is unlawful to use any
spear, seine, net, trap, cookie or fish
berries, or poison, at any time or
place, except in Lake Michigan or
the Ohio or Wabash rivers where
they form boundary lines between
states or in private ponds.
Fourth-Minnows may be caught
with a glass trap or minnow seine,
which shall not be moro than IL
feet long, 4 feet deep, nor more than
one fourth inch mesh.
Fifth-It is unlawful to catch fish
in any inland lake, except private
ponds, by any means between Dec.
l and April l..
Sixth-It is lawful to catch fish
with a hook and line in any of the
streams or ponds Of this state at any
time Of the year, except that it is
unlawful to fish in water either part
ly or wholly covered with ice.
Seventh-It is unlawful to shoot
fish at any time or place.
Eighth-It is unlawful to sell or
offer to sell or buy at any time pike,
pickerel, wall-eyed pike, perch,
blue gills, black bass, green bass,
rock bass Or other species Of bass, if
such fish are caught in any water Of
this state.
Ninth-It is vi lawful to fish with
more than one trot line having more
than 100 hooks at any one time;
the fisherman must obtain consent
Of the owner of the enclosed land
before setting trot line thereon.
Tenth-lt is a misdemeanor for
one to have in his possession at any
time any seine, net, spear, gig or
trap, or any part thereof, other than
q minnow seine or trap.
Eleventh-All licensed seines or
nets except minnow seines must be
disposed Of within sixty days from
the taking effect Of this law. This
does not apply to Lake Michigan or
the Ohio river, or the Wabash river
so far as il is q boundary line be-
tween Indiana and Illinois. All
licenses to use seines are revoked.
Twelfth-It is unlawful to catch
or possess more than twenty black
bass in any one day. Two or more
persons fishing from the same boat
may take not exceeding thirty six
black bass.
Thirteenth--No pickerel or wall
eyed pike less than twelve inches in
ength or rock bass or crappie less
han six inches in length, or black
bass less than ten inches in length
shall be Intentionally caught, aud il
caught it shall be Immediately re-
urned to the water.
Fourteenth--It is the duty Of the
ish commissioner, his deputies and
ZACH sheriff and constable, to seize
md destroy any seine more than
welve feet in width. and all dip,
,ill, set and pond nets, traps, seines,
pears and gigs.