The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-05-08
CHANGES In
GAME LAWS
Synopses Of Several Sections Of
Interest to Sportsmen In
This Locality.
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

Revision of the game laws by the
legislature this year include a number
Of changes which will be of interest to
sportsmen in this section. The most
important are as follows:
GAME BIRDS AND RABBITS.
1t shall be unlawful to kill or have
in possession any partridge, quail,
English or ring-necked pheasant,
prairie chicken, or any wild turkey,
excepting only between the tenth day
of November and the thirty-first day
Of December, both dates inclusive.
1t shall be unlawful to kill OF to
have in possession any woodcock, ex-
cepting during the months OF July,
October. November and December OF
each year.
1t shall be unlawful to kill or have
in possession any rabbit, gray, black
or fox squirrel, excepting only from
the tenth day of November to the
thirty-frst day of December, both
dates inclusive of each year.
SNOW SECTION MODIFIED.
IT shall be unlawful to hunt, kill Oh
destroy. or attempt to hunt, kill Oh
DESTROY, any partridge, grouse, pheas-
ant. Quail, woodcock or rabbits while
there is snow upon the ground in such
condition that any such bird or animal
may be tracked therein, or by track
ing any such bird or animal in the
snow, or to have in possession any such
bird or animal above mentioned that
has been hunted, killed, destroyed OF
taken as aforesaid under penalty OF
twenty dollars for each bird or animal
above mentioned so hunted, killed,
destroyed or had in possession, to be
recovered as are other fines and penal
ties for the violation of this act.
NETS FOR BAIT FISH.
1t shall be unlawful to take or to
attempt to take any fish from the
waters of this state by means OF any
continuance whatsoever, except in the
manner commonly known as angling
with hand-line or with rod and line;
provided, however, that this provision
shall not apply to the catching OF eels
by means of eel-weirS from the fif-
teenth day of September to the last
day of October, both dates inclusive;
nor to the taking of suckers, cells,
catfish or carp with spear in all
streams and in all lakes and ponds OF
less than one hundred acres, from the
twentieth day of February to the
twentieth day of April, both dates in
elusive, of each year; provided, also,
that it shall be unlawful to take min
nows and other bait-fish with a sein
not over fifty feet in length in all
ponds and lakes which have an area OF
over one hundred acres, and all other
waters with a sein not over thirty
feet in length; in every such case,
however, all trout, pickerel, bass, pike
and pike-perch captured therein shall
be Immediately released therefrom I'M
injured.
PICKEREL, BASS AND PERCH.
1t shall be unlawful to kill or have
in possession any black bass, Oswego
bass, white bass, calico bass or pike
perch, excepting only from the fif-
teenth day of June to the last day OF
November, both dates inclusive.
1t shall be unlawful to take, kill or
have in possession any pike or pickerel
excepting only from the first of May
to the last day of November, both
dates inclusive.
1t shall be unlawful to catch, kill or
have in possession any brook-trout, ex-
cept only from the first day of April
to the fifteenth day of July, both dates
inclusive.
1t shall be unlawful in any manner
to take any trout, bass, pike-perch,
pike or pickerel between 8 o'clock in
the evening and daylight Of the morn
ing following.
SET LINE AND BUNCH HOOK.
1t shall be unlawful to put, place,
use or maintain in any of the waters
of this state inhabited by pickerel,
pike, pike-perch, black bass or front,
set-line or set-lines, OF to use upon a
line for the taking of fish in such
waters any continuance having more
than three hooks or more than one
burr of three hooks attached thereto
under penalty of twenty dollars for
each offence.
1t shall be unlawful at all times to
use, have in possession, or offer or ex-
pose for sale, any artificial bait with
more than three hooks, or more than
one burr of three hooks attached there
to, under penalty of twenty dollars
for each offense.
The section in relation to the sale of
game changes the period of possession
from thirty to fifteen days.
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