Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-05-08
New One Dollar
Fishing Licenses
Are Now On Sale
Purchasers of Fifty.Cent
Permits Will be Given
Credit on New Licenses.

County auditors in Minnesota have
been mailed the new one dollar fish
ing licenses authorized by the recent
legislature. Because of the last min
ute rush of the recent session they
could not be printed in time to reach
all corners of the state in time for
the opening of the trout season May l..
Until the new law was Enacted a
permit cost only soc, but according
to a ruling by Attorney General j.
A. A. Burnquist all anglers must pur-
chase the new license to participate
in the current angling season.
New Propagation Program.
Looking toward new revenue for
an expanded fish propagation pro-
gram, the new fishing license law
provided increase of the individual
resident angling license from so cents
to one dollar, effective at once; a
resident man-and-wife license for
$1.50; that persons receiving old age
pensions may fish without purchas-
ing a license; they will be issued a
special mo fee" license.
The attorney general, in a special
opinion covering the new statute, also
ruled fishermen who have purchased
1941 licenses for so cents must cash
these in on the one dollar permits.
They will be given a half dollar
credit.
Special "No Fee" License.
Old age pensioners who have al
ready purchased 1941 licenses for so
cents may not be given refunds under
the law, Burnquist said. Along with
other fisherman pension recipients,
they must apply for the special mo
fee" license.
Printing presses hummed Monday
night-only few hours after Cover
nor Stassen signed the bill-grind-
ing out supplies of dollar licenses
for county auditors. These were to
be placed in the mail Tuesday and
Wednesday to reach all regions be-
fore start of the trout season May l.
Conservation Commissioner w. L.
Strunk, although cautioning' all ang-
1ers to secure the dollar permits as
soon as they are available, said fisher
men will not be held responsible for
them in the event county auditors
have not received the new forms.
However, he warned, the Department
expects to have all supplied with the
licenses this week.
Hinder tho Gch 1ox
60 per cent of all receipts are ear
marked expressively for the Fish
Propagation Fund-monies wifi c h
must be devoted exclusively to fish
propagation activity including new
hatcheries, research, and lake and
stream surveys.
Change in Fish Limits.
Several major changes in the laws
pertaining to fish limits and angling
were also made by the recent legis-
lature. They include laws that:
l. Reduce the possession limit on
wall-eyed pike, sand pike or saugers
and northern pike to IL fish. (For-
merly Is for the pike and 20 for the
northerns.)
2. Prohibit the shipment or carry
ing of dressed fish which are defined
as fish with the heads, tails, fins,
scales or skins removed; the law per-
mits removal of gills and entrails
only.
3. The season be opened year-round
on perch without limit
4. Catfish be classified as a game
fish formerly rough fsh) with
seasons the same as for sunfish: May
% to December 81 in southern zone,
June 81 to December 81 in northern
zone; 10 fish permitted to be taken
per day with IS allowed in possession.