Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-08-31
Game Laws as They NOW Are.

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regulation which allows wild fowl to
be shot on the ice and another relative
to the powers of justices of the peace
in cities, the game laws this season
are the same as last season.
The chart which the commissioners
have caused to be published is printed
on large hanger, and they have been
placed in reports where sportsmen con-
gregate.
Game Wardenss Phifer and Conner,
of this county, received copies last
week and fishermen and gunners may
secure copy by applying to either of
them.
The pamphlet contains 132 pages and
is divided into the following parts
A compendium, giving synopsis of
the more important laws.
The general Fish and Game Laws,
enactments applying to all persons in
all parts of the State.
Special and local laws pertaining
to parts of the State.
The Delaware river, enactments per.
tanning to shad, herring and other fish
in the Delaware.
Appendix, laws relative to trespass,
destroying woods and the payment of
bounties on foxes.
The compendium follows:
To take or to attempt to take any
game except by the use of guns held
at arms length. Fine. $50.
To take or to attempt to take any
fish in any, manner excepting with
hook and line, excepting taking min
nows for bait with seine not more
than thirty feet long, excepting in
pond and lakes having an 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 fifteenth of Septem.
Der and the last of October, and tax.
ing cells with wicker baskets anchored
on the bottoms of streams and ponds.
Fine 800
! To have trapped game in possession.
Fine, $50.
To hunt on Sunday, or carry fire.
arms in the fields or woods or on the
waters on Sunday. or to hunt for quail
partridge, pheasant, woodcock or rab.
bits when there is tracking snow on
the ground. Fine, $50.
To pollute streams. Fine. $40.
To use medicated bait or explosives
of any kind for taking fish. Fine,
800.
To draw off waters to take fish.
Fine, 800.
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, or have in
possession any such contrivance. Fine,
$40.
TO permit the erection or mainten.
ance of unlawful contrivances for tax.
ing game and fish; applies to owners
and tenants of lands. Fine, $40.
To use carp for bait or in any other
way to put carp in fresh waters.
Fine, $40.
To capture, kill, injure or to have
in possession inseotivorous and certain
other birds and to rob BIRDS nests.
Fine, $40.
To hunt geese. ducks or any water
wild fowl, except between one hour
before sunset and one hour after sun.
set; to hunt any kind of water wild
fowl from boats not propelled by oars
or paddles. Fine. $40.
To catch or keep trout less than six
inches in lenght. black or white bass
less than nine inches in length, or
pike perch, pike and pickerel less than
twelve inches in length. Fine, $50.
Does not apply to grass pike, small
pike frequenting brooks.
To permit dogs to run rabbits at
night at any time or to run at 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 field inhabited
by deer. Fine. $40.
To remove quail, grouse, woodoock,
squirrel, hare, English and ring neck
pheasants from the State. Fine, $40.
Farmers and fruit growers have the
right to trap rabbits under certain re.
strictions.
Dealers have fifteen days after the
close of the season in which to dispose
| OF game.
The open seasons, when fish may be
lawfully taken by the use of hook and
line, and game by the use of gun held
at arms length. are:
EQuail, rabbit, partridge. English
and ringneck pheasant and squirrel.
November to December 81, inclusive.