Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-26
New Gama LAWS.

Since the enactment of new game laws
by the last New Jersey Legislature there
has been much confusion in regard to the
sections providing for license for nom
resident gunners and the carrying of game
out Of the State.
Under the new laws nonresident gum
ners must pay license fee of $40 to the
County Clerk This does not permit the
game to be shipped or taken out of the
State
| Nonresident gunners need not take out
license to shoot wild water fowl, snipe
rail birds or marsh or mud hens, all of
which may be legally taken out of the
State.
Richard T. Miller, Fish and Game Com
missioner, is authority for the statement
that the payment of a license fee by nom
residents does not confer any privileges
other than to gun.
The season in which game may be taken
as amended by the last Legislature are as
follows:
Quail, lawful to kill, Nov. 10 to Dec
81, inclusive; partridge, grouse, English
and ringnecked pheasant, Nov. 10 to Dec.
81, inclusive; July / to July 81, inclusive;
woodcock, Oct. to Dec. 81, inclusive; rail
bird, Sept. to Dec. 81, inclusive; reedbird,
Aug rs to Dec. 81, inclusive; marsh or
mud hens Sept. l to Dec. 81, inclusive;
gray, English or Wilson snipe, Mar. to
April 80, inclusive; Aug. 25 to Dec. 81, in
elusive; grass and upland plover and dove,
Aug to Sept 30, inclusive; geese, duck,
brant and web-footed wild fowl, Jan. to
April 80, inclusive; Sept. to Dec. 81, in
elusive; hare or rabbit, Nov 10 to Dec. 81,
inclusive; gray, black and fox squirrels,
Nov. 10 to Dec. 81, inclusive; black bass,
pike, perch and white bass, June Is to
Nov. 80, inclusive; brook trout, April to
July Is, inclusive; pike and pickerel, May
to Nov. 80, inclusive.
Violation of any of these laws is punish
able by fine of $40. Deer cannot be law
fully shot for three years. The penalty is
500.
1t is also unlawful to take or attempt to
take any fish in any manner excepting with
hook and line, excepting taking minnows
for bait with a seine not more than thirty
feet long, excepting in ponds and lakes
having an area of over one hundred acres
where seines of fifty feet in length are per-
mitted for bait fishing; taking cells with
baskets or weirs between the 18th day of
September and the LIST day of November,
taking cells with wicker baskets, anchored
on the bottom of streams and ponds.
To have trapped game in possession.
To hunt on Sunday or carry firearms in
the fields or woods or on the waters on Sun
day, or to hunt for quail, partridge, phea-
SAINT, woodcock or rabbits when there is
tracking snow on the ground.
To use set lines in waters inhabited by
pickerel, pike, pike-perch, bass or trout,
or to use any contrivance in fishing having
more than three hooks or one burr of three
hooks.
To hunt geese, ducks or any web-footed
wild fowl, except between one hour before
sunrise and one hour after sunset; to hunt
any,kind of water fowl from boats not pro-
PEELED by oars or paddles.
To catch or keep trout less than six
inches in length, black or white bass less
than nine inches in length, or pike-perch
less than twelve inches in length.
To take trout bass, pike, pickerel and
pike-perch between 8 p. m. and daylight.