The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-06-09
UNLAWFUL, NOW TO SELL
The LAKE BEMIDJ| Pike
The Game and Fish Commission Has
Stocked Lake Last Legislature
Passed New Law.

The having in possession for sale,
or with intent to sell, offer or expose
for sale, or the selling to any person
of any wall-eyed pike caught in the
waters of Lake Bemidji is strictly |
prohibited by law, hereafter, owing
to fhe fact that the State Game &
Fish Commission has stocked Lake
Bemidji with bounteous supply of
pike fry which were placed in the
lake Monday evening.
. The State Game & Fish Commits.
sion's fish car, "Glenwood," came to
Bemidii Monday evening from St.
Faul with a supply of pike fry, the
car being in charge of w. R. Fuller
ton of St. Paul, son of Sam Fuller
ton, the superintendent of fshways
for the State Game & Fish Com
mission.
Mr.. Fullerton and his associates
put twenty-three cans of large, lively
wall-eyed pike fry into the lake, just
after dark, Monday evening, and the
fish took at once ito the Deep"
where they will take unto themselves
size and weight and in few years
be as large as some of the big ones
that getaway from visiting fishermen
who aren't onto the scientific manner
of hooking 'em.
Mr.. Fullerton put off about
100000 of the pike fry on this
trip, coming to Bemidji Monday,
and after dumping the twenty-three
cans of fish into Lake Bemidji left,
Tuesday morning, for ST.. Paul to
make several other tri ps with fish
for other points in the state.
Up to the present time, pix
legally taken from Lake Bemidji
have been sold without interference
from the state game and fish commits
sion. However, the last legislature
passed the following law forbidding
the sale of pike taken from the lakes
which have been stocked with pike,
the provisions of the law being as
follows:
mo person shall have in his pos
session for sale, or with intent to
sell, expose or offer for sale, or sell
to any persons any wall.eyed pike
caught in any lake or waters of this
state which may have been hereto
fore or shall be- hereafter be stocked
with walleyed pike fry of the game
, and fish commission of this state
at any time, or shall cause to b'
! shipped or have in possession witt
\ intent to ship for purpose of sale t
o any person either within or withou
the state any such fish, or any sucl
i wall-eyed pike in his possession
f except during the season for takini
y same"
f The penalty for the violation c
j. this law is fine of not less the,
$40 or more than $50 and costs q
h prosecution, or by imprisonment i
e the county Jail for not less than te
e days or more than sixtydays for eac
offense. =. q
r, In the enforcement of this law
It as it relates to Lake Bemidji, shout
e be given a generous interpertatio
j. for the present, as but few peopl
a know that the Game and FISH con
/ mission stocked the lake Monda
evening as the stocking was don
re after dark and no one was informe
,e of the coming of the car.
However, we hope that our rea.
ers will remember the fact that sci
ing pike taken from Lake Bemid
: from now on is strictly unlawful, :
is shipping with intent to sell. tt
catching of pike from a lake whit
5. has beeh stocked is not against tt
e. law. nor is the giving away of pill
: so caught; but selling such pike
e absolutely wrong, as per the statu
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