Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1915-05-13
THE FISHING
LICENSE LAWS
Pickerel Season Opens on
May 10th.
BASS JUNE 18TH
Fishing License Required From
All Male Persons Over
Fourteen Years.

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May 20 is the date of the open sea-
son for angling for pike or pickerel
and June Is for the various kinds of
bass inhabiting the streams in New
Jersey, there being no changes in the
dates for open seasons for these spe-
cies of game fish. A recent published
statement that a fishing license was
required of females over fourteen
years of age is an eror, as no license
is required for females, or males un-
der fourteen years of age to fish IN
the waters Of the State but all resi-
dent males over fourteen years must
take out license to fish or hunt, the
one license, costing $1.15, emitting the
holder to either fish or hunt. Non
| resident males are required to take
out license, costing $2.15 to fish;
this license, however, does not give
the holder the right to hunt any wild
bird, animal or fowl. The non-resi-
dent and aliens hunting and fishing
licenses cost $10.15, and applies to
males and females alike. Another
important provision of an act of the
Legislature at the session of 1915 pro-
hibits the issuing of a cunning license
to unnaturalized persons unless they
| possess real estate to the value of
| $4,000. This provision of the new
/ law is looked upon by many genuine
sportsmen as wise one, as it is we'll
known that pot-hunting is practiced
by that class to wide extent. and it
is the idea of the Game Commission
to put stop to the practice as far as
| possible. Just how it will result re-
mains to be seen, as much depends on
the vigilance of the game wardens in
the various counties of the State.
Under the new fishing license law,
which went into effect January l of
this year, the game wardens will
doubtless find that they will have
| plenty of work to do in keeping tab
on fishermen who have failed to take
out license, and it might be we'll to
remind all fishermen thus inclined to
violate the law, that it will prove
costly pastime if they are caught ang-
ling without a license in any of the
fresh waters of the State. In connec-
ton with the new fishing license law,
for the benefit of any who may not
understand it's provisions, no license
is required to fish in the Delaware
River or any of the tidewaters of the
State-tidewater meaning the extreme
point of limit reached by a normal
tide. Another exception to the law
providing for hunting and fishing IL
censes, is that any occupant of farm
or the members of his immediate fam
lily, living on the farm, may hunt in
the woods or fields, or fish in the
streams on said farm, without taking
out a license, but does not give this
privilege TO any servant or other per-
son not a member of his family, who
may be living on said farm.
While the fishing license bill was
vigorously fought in the Legislature
by men in every walk of life, the Fish
and Game Commission, however, pos
sessed sufficient influence to get the
bill through and Governor Fielder at
tached his signature to the measure
making 1t a law, and the lovers OF
angling must now take out license
or run the risk of being fined if they
are caught violating the provisions of
the law.
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