Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-30
GAME LAWS
What SpOrtSmen Must Not Do
TO Obey the Law When
Cunning.

+" NohhPiinhSe VIII u request budl bHt
game laws be published in the NEWS
they are given in full below.
IT IS ALWAYS UNLAWFUL:
ITO take or attempt to take any game
except by the use of guns held at arms
length. Fine $40.
= To take or to attempt to take any fish
in any manner except with hook snd
line, excepting taking minnows for bait
with a seine not more than thirty feet
long, excepting in ponds and lakes hav-
ing in area of over one hundred acres
where seines of fifty feet in length are
permitted for bait fishing; taking cells
with baskets or weirs between the fiji
tenth of September and the last of Oc-
tober, and taking cells with wicker bas-
kets anchored on the bottoms OF streams
and ponds. Fine, $40.
TO hunt or kill deer at any time. Fine,
300.
To have trapped game in possessi on.
Fine $50.
To hunt on Sunday or carry firearms
in the fields or wo DDS or on the waters
on Sunday or to hunt for quail, par
fridge, pheasant, woodcock or rabb its
when there is tracking snow on the
ground. Fine, $50.
To pollute streams. Fine, 5000.
To use medicated BAR or explosives
of any kind for taking fish. Fine, 800.
To draw off waters to take fish. Fine
500.
To use set-lines in waters inhabited
by pickerel, pike, pike-perch, bass or
trout, or to use IN contrivance in fish
ing having more than three hooks, or
one burr of three hooks or to have such
contrivances in possession. Fine, $50.
To per nit the erection or maintenance
of unlawful contrivances for taking
game and fish; applies to owners and
tenants of lands. Fine, $50.
To Use carp for bait or in any other
way to put carp in fresh water. Fine,
$50.
To capture, kill, iniure or to have in
possession insectivorous and certain
other birds and to rob birds nest. Fine,
500.
To hunt geese ducks or any other
water wild fowl, except between one
hour before sunrise aud one hour after
sunset: to hunt any kind of water wild
fowl from boats not propelled by oars
or paddles. Fine. $50.
To catch or keep trout less than six
inches in lenght, black or white bass
less than nine inches in length, or pike
perch, pickerel, and pike less thar
twelve inches in length. Fine, $50. Does
not apply to grass pike, a small pike
%frequenting brooks.
To take trout. bass, pike, pickerel and
pike-perch between 0 p. m. and day
light. Fine, $50.
To permit dogs TO run rabbits at night
at any time or to run Mt large In woods or
fields inhabited by rabbits.or game birds
except between the first of October and the
first of February, or at any time in woods
or fields inhabited by deer Fine, $50.
To remove quail, grouse, woodcock,
squirrel, hare, English, or ring-neck
pheasants from the state. Fine, 500.
To kill more than thirty marsh hens
or mud hens in one day. Fine, $50.
Farmers and fruit growers have the
right to trap rabbits urder certain re-
strictions.
Dealers have fifteen days after the close
of the season in which to dispose of
game.
To the above may be added the follow
ing prohibitions, which, while not the
subject OF legal enactment, are recog-
nized as binding laws of behavior by all
reputable lovers of the pursuit of game
and fish:
Never violate the letter or spirit of
the game laws.
Never take more fish or game than you
have convenient use for.
Never be i~nsolent 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 ri ght TO
exclusive possession of his property.
Never fall to destroy a net or trap
when you find one set.
Never shoot at a game bird except on
the wing.
Never kill the last quail in a covey;
leave some to breed next year. Never
forget that game laws intended to i'm
prove and increase sport and not to pre-.
-..AE -, uoetriot II