The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-09-10

list, is now excluded from the same, and
is, therefore, a nongame bird and may
not be killed at any time.
Outlaws.-Following species may be
killed at any time: Turkey buzzard,
black vulture, or carrion crow; duck
hawk, Cooper hawk, or blue darter;
sharp Skinned hawk; great horned owl,
and English sparrow, and crows, and
crow -blackbirds or grackles when de-
structive to crops, and kingfishers when
nesting in levees.
GAME ANIMALS.
Squirrels.-Open season October tst
to February 18th. Sale permitted in
open season. Bag limit, fifteen.
Deer.-Open season August 18th to
December 18th. Sale prohibited. One
hunter limited to killing five deer in sea-
son or possessing two carcasses in one
day. Not to be killed in water, or be-
tween sunset and sunrise, or when driven
to high ground by overflow.
Bear.-Open season November tst to
February ist. Trapping prohibited.
FUR-BEARING ANIMALS.
Varieties.-Otter, mink, muskrat, rae
coon, opossum, skunk, beaver and fox.
Open season November 1st~to February
18th.
FREsH-WATER FISHING LICENSES.
Licenses required for seining for com
mon commercial varieties of fresh-watef
Ssh and for wholesale buying or ship
ping of fresh-water fish other than game
fish or for vessels buying fresh-water
fish to make up cargo, amount Of
license varying according to the lengtll
Of the seine or the amount of fish handled.
FREsH-wATER GAME FISH.
Varieties. - Black bass, commonl,
called green trout; yellow bass, COM.
monty called barfish; crappy, commonly
called sac-a-lait, or any species of perel.
or sunfish.
Sale.-No game fish to be sold at any
time, whether caught within or without
the State.
Method of Catching. To be caught
only with roo and line having not more
than five hooks attached, or hand line
with not more than five hooks, or trolling
line with spoon hook or other artificial
bait attached.
Number and Size Limit.-No bass
under eight inches to be kept; not more
than twenty-five bass or 100 sunfish or
perch to be caught in one day.
FREsH-wATER COMMON FISH.
General Provisions hoop nets to
be set in lagoons and bayous and other
streams under forty yards in width.
Seining.-See "Fresh- Water Fishing
Licenses"
Prohibited Devices.-Jack light, head
light, or other light, fyke net, gill net,
trammel-net not to be used nor had in
possession. No permanently set means
of taking fish permitted. No obstruc-
tions to prevent the free passage Of fish
in streams to be allowed.
Explosives and Poisons.--No explos-
ives nor acids, or poisons to be used in
streams for purpose of catching or kill
ing fish. No waters to be muddied or
"puddled."
Close Seasons.-Buffalo fish, Febru-
ary 18th to April 18th; catfish, May 10Th
to July 18th; paddlefish or spoonbill
cat, January list to July 18th.
| Size, Limit, Etc.-No catfish or buff
falo fish under twelve inches to be kept
if caught. No paddlefish without roe
suitable for making into cavier to be
kept if caught.
i 'The Federal game law, which pro-
tects all migratory game birds, fixes the
open season in Louisiana from Novem-
Der ist to February 1st, except wood
cock = November 18th to January ist.
Under the Federal law also there is a
; continuous close season until 1918 on all
, birds of the plover and snipe families
. except woodcock, Wilson snipe, greater
and lesser yellow-legs, and golden anc
black breasted plovers.