Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-29
FISH AND GAME REPORTS OUT
Biennial Statement of Nebraska Com
missioners Put Out.
RECOMMENDS SPORT LICENSES
Ask for open quail and Turtle Dove
Season and Opening of Chicken
and Duck shooting Sep
TENDER I.

Nebraska sportsmen, fishermen and
hunters will be vitality interested in the
biennial report OF the Game and Fish
commission Of the state. The report has
been compiled by Game Warden Dan
Geilus and Fish Commissioner T. j.,
O'Brien and contains a number of sug-
gestions for the betterment Of these two
great sports In Nebraska.
Recommendation for the issuing Of a
license to each and every hunter in the
state is a part of the report. The idea
is that resident hunters shall be charged
81 year for licenses and nonresident $40.
The money raised in this way would be
turned into a fish and game fund and be
used for the propagation Of the two sports.
The argument of both is that the present
fund is Inadequate and the process OF
conservation will be greatly helped by the
$4,000 which this system would bring in.
The report is sent to Governor Shallen-
berger who is the official head of the
department, and the two commissioners
hope for some action on at least the rec
concentrations on the license question.
Besides the various recommendations
there is a complete report on the distribu-
ton of fish in Nebraska waters during
the two years. Wall eyed pike to the
number OF 6.50O,OO0 were distributed in 1909,
brook and rainbow trout TO the number
of $4,000; lake trout 1850; large mouthed
black bass, $4,000 young and 1854 older;
crappies. s2.4s4; bullheads, 22.TOO catfish,
s.OOOi perch, 1850; sunfish, 1,O5O. and $500
bullfrogs.
DistrlbutiOn IL Large.
The 1910 distribution was somewhat
larger, except the pike. Brook trout were
placed in up to $4,000; rainbow trout. 1885,
900; wall-eyed pike, 100000; black bass.
19l. $50; rock bass, sunfish and crappie,
14f76; perch, $3.50; catfish. 1885, German
carp. 800; bullheads, IS, 475; bullfrogs, IS 900.
Mr.. OBrien reported that as a general
rule the fish in the state were doing well
and that a high standard of fishing could
DE kept up with the cooperation of the
fishermen of the state in protecting the
fish under the laws passed.
One OF the things asked for by Game
Warden Geilus is that a short open quail
season be adopted because the hunters
did not respect the closed season and
many Of the birds perish In the cold win
ter.
That It would be a wise provision to
change the opening day of the prairie
chicken shooting from October TO Septem-
Der / is another thing recommended. Re
ports from the regions where the birds
are found. indicate that the birds are in
good condition for hunting on septem-
Der and that by October the birds are
leaving the country
Ducks Leave EARLY.
Ducks and other water fowl also leave
Nebraska before the shooting season be-
gins claims the commissioner and the
shooting season should be advanced on
these birds from September Is to September
l. An open season on turtle doves, which
are OF little benefit TO the farmer. is also
asked. The birds are allowed TO go 10 the
south each year and the people there shoot
them because there Is no closed season at
all kept on them there.
The warden anticipates an attempt TO
change our present laws on pursuing game
birds out OF season by the men interested
in training hunting dogs. As this training
is done in July and August the small birds
would be killed and the state would be
overrun with men with dogs from every
state In the union II IL were made open.
He is also opposed 20 the changing OF the
law referring TO the selling OF fish and
game caught. as this Il the law which pre-
vents market hunters from killing off the
game.
out OF III people arrested for violating
the game laws 152 were convicted IN the last
two years and thirty-ssvsn Of these served
jail sentences. Twenty-Five hundred live
fish and 100 game birds were found 10 have
been caught In illegal traps and were con
fiscated, Nets numbering li9 and sl5 fish
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