Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1910-03-04
PROPOSED CHANGES IN GAME LAWS
Farm for Propagation of Game
WardenS TO be Paid

From the Cape May County Times.
While many bills proposing amend
ments to the game and fish laws have
been introduced in the Legislature by
members who are striving to meet the
wishes of n section of the State or
other, most of these are doomed to de-
feat.
The joint committee of the Legislature
after a conference with Benjamin G..
Kuser, president of the State Fish and
Game Commission, agreed upon GER
tain changes which will be embraced
in bills soon to be introduced, and these
are likely to be placed upon the stat
utes.
Besides indorsing the present gun
ners' license law which has netted the
State Game and Fish Commission more
than S53 900 from registrations, the
committee recommended the establish
ment of a game farm for the propaga-
ton of game to be liberated within the
State, such a farm to be in charge of a
head keeper at a salary of $500, and
that he have two assistants, to be paid
$1,000. Two extra wardens, at 5000 per
year each, are urged to have charge of
the Fish and Game Commission boat.
It'll recommended that county wardens
be paid 5000 each, with the provision
that they shall have no other occupa-
ton, and shall give their entire time to
fish and game work.
Other recommendations are
Season for wildfowl shooting should
omen &ozs@hsEl ! a. now
Season for black duck and mallard
should close March |, for all other ducks
March 10, and for geese and brant April
10. Shooting of black ducks in season
be allowed until 7 p. M, except in fly
ways on the beach.
Present law prohibiting the shooting
of other ducks, geese and brant and reed
and rail birds after sunset and before
sunrise be continued.
Season for reed birds and rail birds
be from September 10 until December l.
Make it a misdemeanor for any gun
ner to put out or carry in his boat after
March rs, any decoy other than brant
or geese.
No open season for wood duck for
five years.
Open season for shore birds, surf birds
and bay birds be July l to December 1,
except for English snipe.
No open season for upland plover for
five years.
Open season for quail, partridge,
grouse, rabbit, etc., to be November l,
TO December 10.
No open season for deer for five years..
Land held by the Forest Park Reser-
walton Commission, created under the
act of March %, 1906, should be made
game refugees by law.
A penalty should be provided for TAX
ing fish other than herring with a two
inch mesh in the tributaries, rivers,
v and streams of Barnegat Bay,
and that portion of the bay proper
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the township of Brick.
1t is desirable to secure concurrent
legislation between New Jersey and
Delaware for the Delaware Bay and
River between said States.
The act regulating the use of purse
nets should be amended so as to pro-
vide that in Ease of violation the same
should be a mlsdemenor instead of q
penalty.
There should be a closed season for
the netting of Mullica River during
January, February, March, April and
May.
1t shall be unlawful to fish under the
ice.
An annual license of 500 be imposed
upon each pound net fishing in the At
lantic Ocean, Sandy Hook and Raritan
Bays. The present law should be go
amended as to make the open season
for black bass, pickerel, pike, crapple,
calico bass, white bass, pike-perch,
white and yellow perch from June 10
to December l.
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