The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-05-12
FISH LAWS To
BE ENFORCED
IN THIS STATE
GAME WARDENs TO BE NOTIFIED
TO ENFORCE MORE RIeloLY
THE NEW LAWS.
Fish ad Game Commissioner Mercer
to Take Charge Of the Work and
Put Stop to the Many Violations.
Some Points on the Laws.

Georg1a's fish laws are to pe en-
forced, and in order to do 80, Fish
and Game Commissioner J. e. Mer-
Ger Will call on his many Wardens and
deputy wardens in all sections of the
state to prosecute all those caught
violating the laws.
1t is a well known fact that many
OF the fish laws have been entirely
ignored in this state in the past. the
same as the game laws, but under
Georgias new fish and game commits
sion, same was better protected in
the state during the Vast hunting
season than ever before, and now the
department is to devote it's entire
attention to the enforcement of the
fish laws.
In this connection the following
sections of the law may prove of in
terest and prevent many from being
arraigned in court for violation:
mo license is required to hsh In
the state as required to hunt. Also
the restrictions around fishermen are
not as strict in many ways as those
for hunters.
1T is unlawful for any one to fish
with seine, net, spear, gig or IKE de-
vice from the first of February to
the first of July. The hook and line
is the only device permitted to be
used. Exceptions for shad are made
from the first of February to the 18th
of April.
No one can fish from a boat tied in
any one spot any length of time on
any riYel' or creek in the state unless
he owns the adjacent land to the wa
ter where he is fishing, or has leased
the right to fish. And from IL o'clock
Saturday night to II o'clock Sunday
night no seine can be used for catch
ing fish.
mo person other than the proprse-
tors or their authorized agents, can
fish neaf artificial shell reef, bed or
fishing grounds contrary or river in
the state, nor shall any proprietor or
land along such bodies of water build
a reef further than the center of the
stream from their banks.
Any person who fishes with trot-
line, trap, wire, set line, or other like
continuance for fish for sale in any of
the ri1"rs or lakes or other waters
of the state, without the written con-
sent Of the owner thereof, shall be
guilty Of misdemeanor.
No one shall place in any river or
creek or water a drain net, trap, dam
seine or other device for catching fish
that does not leave the channel or riv-
ers open for space of ten feet and
one-third of the channels of the creeks
open at low water for the unobsctruct-
ed passage of fish The sheriff shall
have the authority in any stream upon
complaint of persons living in the
territory around the stream.
1t is unlawful to kill fish with fire.
arms, dynamite or other explosive
substances.
IS lad nets or seines must not OBJ
struct more than half of a stream.
Between the hour of sunrise and
sunset Saturday there shall be a
closed time for shad and other mi
gratory fish, during which time it
will be unlawful to catch any such
fish, and all nets, seines, etc, for
shad and other migratory
fish must be taken out of the water
during that time.
"The open season for shad is from
The LIST of January to the goth day Of
April.
mo person shall seine or net for
fish in streams where mountain trout
exist"