Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-10-09
NEVADA'S WONDERFUL
FISH AND GAME LAW

The law requiring that stupid piece
of legislation known as the fish and
game law to be read from time to time
i'll the public schools is about on Il par
with the merits of the act itself and
should be more honored in the breach
than in the observance. We doubt if
any court or jury in the State would
deprive IL teacher in the public schools
of his or her position or salary because
of the failure to have this delicious bit
of legislative rhetoric droned off to the
pupils twice u year. While We are
willing to admit that the kindergarten
pupils would understand about as much
of it as the general public and the
makers of the act, yet it seems "a waste
of time that can be put to better use. :
We know few people who are
mighty wise when it comes to fish and
game. But they do not agree as to
conclusions. One insists that the trout
spawn in July and should he protected
i'll the middle summer months. An
other denies, and declares that the
spawning season is in February, an
other that it is in October. another that
the spawn is deposited in April and 50
on through every month in the year.
SO the various legislatures of the State
have taken advice from the fish wise
who happened to prepouderate when
the session was on and moved the spawn
ing season all over the calendar. No
man with the statuets Of one legislature
before him, specifying certain months
us the true spawning season would have
any criterion to go by to tell in what
season the preceding legislature had
put it. 1t has moved over the entire
solar season several times and is now
ON its return trip. with an orbit more
cratic than the comet Bill Nye dis
covered two degrees east of the gable
of his barn when first seen and the
next night south by cast of the church
steeple and going some towards Corn
hollow
There has been u whole lot of tommy
rot abolt this fish and g1me business.
Half the time when the fish are fit to
eat it is unlawful to catch or eat them.
The whole subject has resolved itself
into notorious farce. .. ....
There are two or three things the
public are interested in with regard to-
the fish: First, that some convention of
wl@eacre fishermen be called who will
remain convention until they establish
wkat months, the fish spawn, even if
they have to stay i'm session for six
months and fight it out to u finish
second, that no one be permitted TO
hsh III the river during those months
ana that the fish and game wardens
sosee to it; arresting white yiolators
or the law and ordering Indians TO stop.
Inc latter will obey the law wheu their
attention IS called to il. Daring the
open season let any one fish WHO " ants
to and does not abuse the privileges by
catching more than the maximum
number. Exempt the Indian from the
'operatjon of the law with the respect
TO catching and dispJsing of lake trout
during the closed season. We are we'll
aware that some market Fishermen and
~ few wiseaCres of the rod are anxious
to deprive the poor old Piute and |
Washoe Of about his only means of live
lihood but If the public heart is in the
place we think It is, it will he an un-
happy experience for the white man or
game warden who arrests an Indian for
selling lake-caught trout in Reno, so
far as this paper is able to take the