The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-05-13
Fish and Game Laws.

Following are synopses of the laws
passed by the last Legislature relating tc
fish and game.
Chapter 36 prohibits the placing of any
rye or food in salt water within 400 feet
of any ice, marsh or meadow, bar or bank
or heaped seaweed for the purpose of de-
coying wild fowl so that the same may be
shot while feeding.
Chapter SIS. Open season for black
bass, Oswego bass, white bass, calico bass,
crappie or pike perch, June IS to Novem-
Der 80, both dates inclusive. Open season
for pike and pickere1. May 20 to No
vember 80, both dates inclusive.
Chapter Sc provides that hatchery
raised trout may be sold at any time for
food purposes, if properly tagged, said
tag to be removed by the purchaser only.
Open season for brook trout April I to
July IS, both inclusive.
Chapter 70. Prohibits the hunting of
water fowl from any sand bar not covered
by water.
Chapter ia. Permits regularly organ
lied or incorporated associations holding
what is commonly known as "Field
Trials" but only upon license obtained
from the Board of Fish and Game Com
missioners.
Chapter 40. Open season for quail,
rabbit, squirrel, only the male English or
ring pheasant, ruffed grouse,
prairie chicken, wild turkey or Hungar
ian partridge, from November 10th to
December 18th, both dates inclusive
Penalty for taking any of the above be-
tween October 10th and November 9th,
both dates inclusive, 500. Open season
tor woodcock, October 10th to December
18th, both dates inclusive.
Chapter I26. Unlawful by moonlight
or with any other artificial light to shoot
or kill any skunk, mink, mnskrat or
otter, or to take any of the foregoing
except by means of a trap, or to disturb
Or destroy any muskrat lodge. Open
season for trapping skunk, mink, musk
rat or otter, November 18th to April Ist
following, both dates inclusive.
Chapter I35. Unlawful to sell any
squirrel, deer, game bird or song bird,
but ducks, geese, brant and rabbit are
excepted; provided that black and NAL
lard ducks, pheasants and deer raised on
game preserves or coming from another
State may be sold at all times if properly
tagged
Chapter lat. Provides for the issuance
of a license to any person desiring to
engage in the business of raising and
selling domesticated English ring-necked,
Monaghan and other pheasants, mal1ard
and black ducks and deer, or any of them,
in wholly enclosed preserve. Cost of
license, S. yearly. Licenses heretofore
granted at SIS each remain in force until
December 81, 1916.
Chapter I48. Permits any Fish and
Game Commissioner, the Fish and Game
Protector, or the Assistant Fish and Game
Protector, to file complaints for any
violation of the fish and game laws upon
information or belief.
Chapter I57. Unlawful to hunt with a
hound or firearms, or to go into the woods
or fields with hound or firearms, except
only during the season for quail, etc, but
this prohibition does not interfere with
hunting for snipe, woodcock and deer in
the legal season therefor. BY special
permission of the Board, foxes may be
hunted with hounds from Dec. IS to Mar.
40, the last date mentioned inclusive.
Chapter I76. Unlawful to take in any
part of the state any crappie or calico
bass measuring less than six inches.
Chapter 1856. Unlawful to manufacture,
sell, barter, loan, give, buy, or have in
possession, or use to shoot, any air gun,
spring gun or pistol or other weapon of
similar nature, in which the propelling
force is spring or air, ejecting bullet or
missile smaller than three-eighths of an
inch in diameter with sufficient force to
injure person. This is a general act of
the state, the enforcement of which does
not devolve upon the Fish and Game
Commission.
Chapter 24S. Prohibits the taking of
striped bass in salt or fresh water by
means of net except from November IS
- i
hibits the catching, killing or possession
at any time any striped bass less than ten
inches in length.
Chapter 3o3. Authorizes the Board of
Fish and Game Commissioners to give
permission to kill and destroy the Euro
pean Startling when the governing body
Of any municipality shall decide that they
are so numerous In such municipality as
to become nuisance.