The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-02-23
.SP0RTSMEN AGREE
ON CLOSED SEASON
FOR ALL GAME FISH
ACT DRAFTED BY LOCAL DEvo-
TEES OF SPORT IN MAuRY
COUNTY. b
GRAB HOOKS AGAIN ALLGWfL
For The Catching Of Certain Non-Game
Fish--season on Others to be
Closed From April I to June is
Each Year.

Many OF the. leading sportsmen of
Maury county have agreed upon fish
law for the county that they believe
will prove not only an effective pro-
lection for FISH but one that will meet
popular approval. Under this pro-
posed act, which Representatives Eng
fish and Russell will be asked to pass,
it will be unlawful to fish for game
fish between April / and June Is of
each year. 1t does permit the catch
ing of certain fish at all seasons and
also the catching by grab hooks OF
certain non-game fish.
The proposed act is as follows:
IAN ACT to protect fish in the run,
ming streams and other waters in
Maury County, Tennessee.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
State Of Tennessee, That hereafter it
shall be unlawful for any person or
persons to kill, wound. capture, catch
or take fish or fishes from. any OF the
running streams or waters OF Maury
County, Tennessee, by any means,
manner or device whatsoever, except
by biated hook and line including trot
lines, spinners, trolls and artificial
flies, from the list day Of April until
the 18th day of June of each and every
year, provided it shall be lawful to
take or catch German carp, silver
carp, high fms, high backs, red, vel
low and white suckers By means o..
snatch hook and grab hook, and cat
fish with trot line and baited hook
and line. at any season of the year,
and provided further that no game
fish or fishes, to-wit: brook trout, rain
bow trout, black bass sometimes
called trout. landlocked salmon. crap
py and rock bass (called black perch)
the trout, bass and salmon smaller
than inches in length or less than
one-half Of, a pound in weight, and
croppie and rock bass smaller than
five inches in length, shall be killed,
wounded, captured, taken or caught
at any season Of the year and pro
vided further that the taking of fishes
from ponds wholly on private proper.
ty or the SEEMING and catching of min.
nows under length of ~ inches by
means Of dip net or minnow nets over
ten feet in length, said minnows being
taken for the purpose of being used
for bait exclusively. shall not be
deemed to be within the inhibition of
this section. Any bass, perch or trout
taken in such net shall be at once
returned to the water and set free.
Section 2. Be it further enacted,
That any person or persons violating
any provision or proviso. or part or
parts OF Section / of this Act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction shall pay a fine OF not less
than twenty-five dollars nor more than
fifty dollars andsbe imprisoned, at the
discretion of the judge trying the case,
in the county Jail for period of thir-
ty days.
Section 8. Be it further enacted,
That the Judge Of the Circuit Court
Of Maury county shall give this act
in charge to the grand jury at each
ferm of his court, and the grand jury
shall have inquisitorial powers over
I'll violations of this act.
Section l. Be it further enacted,
That all laws and parts of laws appli-
cable to fishing in Maury county which
are in conflict with this act be and
the same are hereby repealed, and
that this act take effect from and
after its passage, the public welfare
requiring It."