Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-28
New HUAItRo'
LICENSE BRINGS
s35 356 10 STATE
Success of Resident Tax System
Shown in Fish and Game
Commissions Report.
Especial to the Newark start

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TRENTON, Dec. 2S.-That the first
six months OF the operation of the
resident hunters license system, which
went into effect on July 4 last, justi-
fees the wisdom of It's enactment, Is the
claim made by the State Fish ms
Game Commission in its annual report
lust submitted to Governor Fort. The
amount received by the Sta treasurer
from county clerks on account OF resi-
dent licenses was 1885 up to De-
ceraber IS. Commenting upon this sit
uation, the commission says that the
resident hunters license system cam
not have but u good and lasting effect
and that opposition TO it is fast dis
appearing as it's practical operation be-
comes known.
Another showing made by the report
is that the law gives impetus to the
taking out of licenses by non-residents,
and during the year 1909 Il ere was re-
ceived from this source SS,46o, as
against $3.50 last ear In discussing
the general effect of the license Jaw
the commission says:
THE proposition that the people as
q whole should not pay for Dement'S III
rectly derived by a class Is perhaps
new within the past twenty years as
applied to hunting. but that no one OF
the ~thirty-four States having licenses,
as we are informed, has repeated It's
law. makes it clear that the license
system has come to say" Taking up
the claim that the hunters measure Is
growing in popularity. the commission
reports as follows:
49, the people, however, became ia
miliar with the act there was a de-
eided cessation of the complaint. we
know of many cases where persons
who were strenuous in their objection
to the law now commend where before
they condemned. since they have seen
the benefits derived from the law as a
RECOMMENDATIONS for stocking the State
and an added protection to our game,
The enforcement of the law has been
gratifying. The commission is salts
fed that the law viii still grow more
popular
The commission shows that license
fees for vessels authorized to take men,
baden amounted to s3,0I5, as against
s 800 last year. The increase is ac-
counted for largely through the use OF
the launch Protector on the Atlantic
ocean. The commission say it has con-
Quoted a successful campaign against
fishing boats from New York taking
food fish within the three-mile limit IN
the Atlantic ocean.
Work of the Commission.
Some of the other things shown by
the report are the following:
That the curtailment Of the duck sea-
son and the abolition of the July wood
cock shooting have promoted the In
terests of the State; that contracts for
furnishing the State with 10000 trout
for stocking purposes were awarded
during the year, the trout being placed
principally in the streams of Northern
New Jersey, with fine results; that the
shad fishermen have had the best sea-
son in ten years; that the success OF
stocking with pheasants in 1908 has
been repeated. 1853 birds having been
distributed, with good results, and that
- Hungarian partridges were also put
put. The report continues:
excellent as is the showing for the
year, your commissioners realize that
there is still much to do in the en-
forcement of the present, the enactment
of wise new laws, the judicious stock
Ing of the State, and in drawing at
tention to the economical value of in
s~ectivorous birds, the protection OF
which must be ranked with the most
important work of the board. > > ~
To point the vigilance required for this
feature it need only be mentioned that
the greater portion of the s2,345 coll
lected in fines during the year was on
account of 'violators arrested for the
killing Of insectivorous birds
Commenting upon the criticism that
there is needless changing of the fish
and game laws, the commission says
tina those who lave the subject at
heart would gladly welcome a con-
dition where the laws would be
fixed and not amended for a long
period OF years. if such We're pos
sible. The commissioners declare.
however. that the facts must be looked
fairly in the face and that game would
have poor chance, indeed, were 1t not
for progressive legislation. Speaking
further IN this point, the commits
sioners report that frequently local and
special selfish interests have been
powerful enough to prevent desirable
legislation.
The enactmentof the two concurrent