Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-10
THE NEW GAME
LAWS OF OHIO
They Have Been In Effect Since
Thursday Evening, May s.

uteS tnc same snail De 1Ound 10 con-
tain, or to have contained, any birds.
fish, or game, killed taken, or had in
possession in violation of law.
Section 696S. No person shall draw,
set, place. locate. or maintain. any
pound.net, trammel-net, fyke-net, set
net, seine, fish-trap. or any other
net or device for catching fish in
any of the waters, either natural or
artificial, within this state. nor catch,
or kill fish with any device whatever.
in any such waters, except with hook
and line, with bait or lure. No person
shall take or catch in any of the
reservoirs of the State. or in Buck
eye lake. or Indian la ke, any fish
with what are known as trot lines,
bob-lines. set-lines. Or float lines. No
person shall in any waters of the state
natural OF artificial, dncluding Buck
eye lake, Inoian lake, Grand or Lora-
mie Reservoirs. take or catch in any
manner any sunfish known as the blue
gill, and common sunfish or black bass
between May first and June first, in
elusive. No person shall in any of the
waters of the state Qncluding Buckeye
lake, and Indian lake. Grand or
Loramie Reservoirs, while such wa
ters are frozen over, covered with or
partly covered with, ice, catch any
fish, in any manner. through any hole
cut in the ice, or through any fissure,
crack, or break therein. No person
shall buy, sell. offer or expose
for sale, or have in his possession for
the purpose of sale, any black bass,
, that has been caught in any of the
rivers, creeks, or reservoirs, of the
state, or in Buckeye Lake or Indian
Lake; nor buy. sell. offer for sale. or
have In his possession, any fish caught
In any such waters out of season or
In Il manner prohibited; nor catch,
take, or have in possession. any bass
less than nine inches in length (meas-
urements to be made from end of nose
to end of tail. No person shall CATCH
or kill, any fish by the use of dyna-
mite, or any other explosive material
or by the Use of any poisonous drug,
bait OIL food. No person shall catch,
kill, offer for sale, sell, buy. or have
In his possession, any brook trout,
speckled trout, Won Behr or brown
| trout, lapd-locked salmon, or Califor-
mia salmon, except between the fif-
tenth day of March and the fifteenth
day OF September inclusive. No per-
son shall catch, or pursue, any turtle,
| by the aid or use of any seine, or net,
except single seine or net, the
meshes of which are not less than FIVE
inches by five inches in dimension.
Provided, that nothing in this section
shall prevent the taking of minnows
for bait with minnow seine not ex-
ceeding six feet in length; nor prevent
the commissioners of fish and game,
or their authorized officers or agents
from taking fish at any time or place,
or In any manner, for the purpose Of
stocking ponds, lakes, or rivers, or for
the maintenance or prOpag ga ton of fish
| in hatcheries, or for the eXtermina-
tion of carp in any waters; nor shall
anything herein prevent the taking of
fish in any manner in the ponds or
lagoons formed by the. receding waters
of running streams when such ponds
or lagoons no longer have any connec-
ton with the channels of such streams.
| And nothing in this section shall apply
to Lake Erie, or any of the estuares.
- on bays thereof, or shall ap-
ply to private artificial fish ponds or
privately owned lakes. Whoever vio-
lates any provision Of this section, or
any provision of sections 6960 6960a,
6061, 6Oe3 6o64, 6065, 6967 or 6967a.
| of the Revised Statutes, shall be fined
not. less than twenty-five dollars nor
more than two hundred dollars, and
costs Of prosecution and in default of
payment of fine and costs. shall be
imprisoned as provided in section 4O9e
| Of Revised Statutes.
Sec. 6OGSa. Whoever shall trespass
upon the lands. or rights in lands To-
Gated within this state, belonging to
any person, and lying in or bordering
upon any natural or artificial pond or
brook less than ten miles in length,
into which have been introduced brook
trout, speckled trout, brown trout,
land-locked salmon, California salmon,