The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-04-14
UNIFORMITY OF LECISLASiON IN
FISH AND CANE LAWS.
Committees From states bordering ON the
Great Lakes Meet I'm Chicago and
Recommend Uniform Laws

Some time since, Representative Scid-
more of st Joseph county went to Mad
ison, Wis, to enlist the legislature of
that state to join with Michigan in Sc
curing uniform fish and game laws.
The genial doctor worked with such
good results that on calling Governor
Warmers attention to the feasibility and
Importance of such legislation the gov
ernor without hesitancy wrote letters to
the governors of the states of Ohio, New
York, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota
and the governor general of Canada ask
ing them to join him in sending repre-
sentatives TO a conference to be held at
Chicago, April 10.
The result exceeded the most sanguine
expectations, for all these were represent
ed except New York and Indiana, aud
in their places were representatives Of
the United States government, who by
their experience proved of value to the
representatives assembled.
The convention was organized with
Representative Whelan of Holland
Mich, in the chair and Representative
After discussing the legislation now in
vogue in the different localities and that
proposed, the following recommends.
tons were adopted:
Closed season on Lake Erie, Lake st.
Clair, Detroit and st. Clair rivers for all
fish, November ID to April 10.
Closed season on Lakes Huron and
l. r.. L. f. IL
Der 81 to December 10.
Closed season for wall-eyed pike on
Lakes Michigan and Huron, including
bays and harbors and st. Mary's river,
January to May 10; Lake Superior,
January to June l.
Closed season on Lake Superior for
whitetish and trout, October to Novem-
Der II.
Bass and muskallcnge, rod and line,
January to June 10; to be caught with
rod and line only during open season.
Closed season on all great lakes for
sturgeon, 10 years from June l, 1901.
Taking for export of black bass, mus
kallonge and brook trout to be prohibit
ed Catching some fish with nets to be
prohibited.
All boxes and packages containing
fish to be marked with the name of the
consgnee and consignor, and with the
contents of the package.
Following to be legal measurements of
fish to be caught: Black bass, twelve
inches; muskallonge. thirty inches; yellow
perch offered for sale, not less than nine
inches; wall-eyed pike, fifteen inches;
blue pike and saugers, ten inches: white
fish and lake trout to weigh not less
than two pounds dressed, or two pounds
four inches round; herring in Lake Erie,
ten inches.
State ard pational fish commissions to
be permitted to take spawn during closed
season.
Sale of speckled and rainbow trout
raised in private waters to be permitted
Having in possession any fresh fish
during closed season to be considered
prina facie evidence of guilt.
No recommendation was made as to
size of mesh in nets, as such laws have
proved ineffective.
Following the meeting, the represent.
atives of Michigan, Wisconsin and Min.
nesota met and agreed to recommend to
their several legislatures uniform legis-
lation concerning the open season for
deer and the number that may be killed
Their recommendation was that the
number should be reduced to two, the
| licenses to remain the same, and that
non. residents should be allowed to ship
one deer outside the state
This last provision ought to largely in
crease the nonresident hunters, as al
present they pay $50 for license to hunt
and are barred from shipping any home