The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-01-15
COMMISSIONER ARNOW GOES
INTO DETAIL AND EXPl AIMS
MANY POINTS WHICH HAVE
NOT BEEN CLEAR.
LAW WAS misunderstood
He Says That Boats Are Given
Licenses and Not the Owners,
as Many Seem to Thihk--Oth-
er Facts Are Given.

| fish commissioner, has written let
ter 10 various game wardens rela
tive to the operation of the new fish
law that is of interest 1t will prob
ably clear up many points about which
there now seems to be considerable
doubt. The statement from Mr.. Arrow
follows
Because OF the fact that there
seems to be some misunderstanding
as to the recently enacted salt water
fish laws, and the other laws, as per.
tanning. to the taking of fish from
the water of this state, have been
requested to indicate or outline my
ideas as to the application of such
"Unthr the salt water fish bill !
would Atate it was not contemplated
when bis bill was drawn, that per
sons Mo use castnetss or hand
drawn ISeins, not exceeding thirty
feet in length, or hook and line
should be required to have a license.
| Under this salt water bill, boats are
, licensed, and not the men, and 1t Is
possible to use castnets, hand
drawn seines, and certainly hook and
| line without boat at all, and even
where boats are used, the fish taken
| in the manner are usually for home
consumption or for sport, and could
not properly be classed as for com
lmercial proposes.
Just where the salt water ends
| and the fresh water begins, as ap-
piled to the rivers along the coast is
question that must be determined
by those who are familiar with where
such blending of the waters takes
place, under normal conditions; and
where there is no unusual freshet In
the rivers / would say that where
the water Is bracksh at all times, ex'
| cept during a freshet, that they may
be properly classed as salt water.
THE salt water fish bill alluded tC
will not interfere with the taking OF
shad from the fresh water rivers, for
1.-THE reason that they are seldom
taken except considerably above the
Lsalt waters, and none of the laws, as
Gpertaining to the taking of shad were
repealed, or changed in any way by
the recent extra session of the legis,
lature. ~
Section 6i0 OF the criminal code,
which provides that non-residents OF
this state should not take fish from
the waters of this state for sale. has
caused considerable misunderstood
| fnr rp
son, when the salt water fish bill was
prepared, the word resident" was
not used, but citizen" instead, which
makes it possible to prevent those
not citizens of this state from engag
ing In the business OF taking fist
from the salt waters.
ut has been my contention (Which
nas been supported by those bettei
posted than -, that a person ma,
take up a residence in this state
within a very few days, and for wha
length of time he may reside in thii
cided by him, or decided by circum
stances, and whether or not he Il
successful in the business in which h
becomes engaged.
THE purpose Of section nine OF tn,
salt water fish bill and OF $40 of TIN
criminal code was clearly to keel
within the state of Georgia, and 70
the benefit of Its people, the prof
that comes from the taking and sal
* fish.
THAT it was not contemplated tina
bona fide citizens who are engaged II
this business should be prohibite'
from employing laborers in a mer
manual capacity, merely becaus
such laborer had not established cit
zenship. or permanent residence II
: this state. Is clear to me.
"Webster's definition of resident
is about as follows: "One who re
sides in place; one who dwells in
vplace for period of more or les
permancncy of abode, but Is ofte
distinguished from inhabitant as no
, implying as great fiXity or permi
, nent place Of abode.
where persons who reside in az
| joining states, such as South Carolin
Oh the north, and Florida on tn