The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-02-20
Recommending
Limit To One.
Delegates From Eight Counties Out
OF Fifteen Attend Convention y
at Marquette.

a. NAoAQuStSs
Eight of the fifteen counties of the
upper peninsula were represented by
delegates at the meeting of upper pen
insula sportsmen, held at the court
house in Marquette Tuesday, says the
Journal, and comprehensive set OF
recommendations for game law revision
was adopted, the most important OF
which were those relating to deer hunt
Ing and trout fishing. The meeting may
have been said to have been the rep
resentative of the entire upper pen
insula. and the recommendations adopt
I'D will undoubtedly have considerable
weight with the Legislature, especially
with the game law committee, ma
jority of whom are from above the
straits. Although no two Of the dele
gates were agreed on every point, when
the meeting was called to order. all came
with desire for harmonious action and
a unanimous recommendation was OBJ
tanned in every instance.
The deer question was the first sub
ject to be taken up at the afternoon
session, and the discussion was opened
by d. w. Powell, of Marquette, who
moved that the convention recommend a
closed season on deer for FIVE years.
This motion did not meet with favor
from the other counties. The Delta coun-
ty delegates advocating that the present
law on deer be endorsed, while the other
delegates. excepting Marquette county
favored limiting the license to one
deer in season. After considerable dis
cussion, the one deer recommendation
was unanimously adopted, without any
restriction as to the sex of the deer.
In order to prevents hunter shipping
out deer on some other person. license,
it was recommended that the owner of
the slain animal be compelled to accom-
pany it to its destination, which pro-
vision was said to have been in effect
for several years in Wisconsin, and
to have worked successfully.
One of the most radical recommenda-
tions of the day was that regarding the
trout season. the vote being unanimous
ly in favor of making the open season
from May Is to Sept. Is. one month
later. than under the present law. This
action was taken largely on the advice
of Harry Marks, manager of the fish
hatchery at Sault Ste. Marie, who spoke
at length on this subject. Mr.. Marks
argued that brook trout did not spawn
until late in October and during Novem-
Der, and that extending the season would
not result in any additional depletion Of
the streams. He said that spawn was
developing in the female fish all sum-
mer and that propagation was no more
seriously interfered with by catching
the fish in September than in June. When
reminded that the large fish were more
easily caught in August than at any
other time of the year, he replied that
it was the "big fellows" that ought to
be caught, and not the smaller oneswhich
had not become mature. He said that
no more then one per cent of natural
trout spawn ever Matched, anyway, and
that the only way in which the streams
could be re-stocked was by artificial pro-
pogation. In view of all these facts, Mr..
Marks stated that he could see no rea-
son for prohibiting fishing for trout dur
ing late August and early September,
which is the most pleasant time to be in
the woods. AS Mr.. Marks is generally
recognised a. an authority on the
habits Of fish, his remarks had great
weight and motion for later seasofi
carried UNANIMOUSLY.
1t was voted to favor the same season
for all other members of the trout fam
lily, ,>and that the sale of bass should be
prohibited.
The subject Of protecting commercial
fish in the Great Lakes was disposed
Of BY recommending that the legislature
take steps toward placing the fishing in
dustry of the Grest Lakes bordering on
Michigan under the jurisdiction of the
federal government.
The convention voted to recommend
that the open season on rabbits be from
Oct. I to March Is, and that the snaring
Of rabbits be prohibited at al seasons
Of the year.
/ The only recommendation made re-
garding fur bearing animals was that
the protection on beaver be removed
after 1910, except during the summer
season.
It was voted to recommend the rails
ing Of the bounty on wolves to $40,
that bounty Of $2 be paid for foxes,
and that the bounty on lynx and wild
cats be allowed to remain as they are.
The sentiments Of the meeting was in
favor Of uniform season for game birds
from Sept. Is to Nov. 80. Twelve birds
were recommended - the maximum kill
in any enc day and fifty for asessep. IL
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