6 FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 
(i) Authorization for State officials to propagate and rescue fish 
or assist in stocking waters, or to take fish for scientific purposes. 
(j) Provisions declaring it a crime to remove fish from the nets of 
another. 
The omission of provisions as to administration is not due to a 
belief that these are of minor importance. Probably they are as 
well worth attention as the provisions for size limits and other 
matters. In most fields of legislation efficient administration is now 
recognized to be at least of equal importance with wise substantive 
provisions. But the question of administration is so different that 
it, seems better not to attempt to combine it with this brief treatment 
of closed seasons and such matters. Of the 14 States under con- 
sideration only Illinois (25, 46), Minnesota (4761), and Pennsylvania 
(1903, act 92) have statutory provision for officials concerned 
exclusively with fisheries. 
For subjects not covered in this digest, for amendments made 
after 1918, and for the texts of the laws that are digested herein, the 
statutes, or the pamphlet copies thereof, may be consulted. Pam- 
hlets are prepared in each of these 14 States, except Mississippi. 
t is understood that they may be obtained from the following 
sources: 
Arkansas.—The game and fish commission, Little Rock. 
Illinois.—The chief game and fish warden, Springfield. 
Indiana.—The commissioner of fisheries and game, Indianapolis. 
Iowa.—The State fish and game warden, Spirit Lake. 
Kentucky.—The fish and game commission, Frankfort. 
Louisiana.—The department of conservation, New Orleans. 
Minnesota.—The State game and fish commissioner, St. Paul. 
1 Missouri.—The State fish commission, 3311 Chippewa Street, St. 
ouis. 
Ohio.—The chief warden, secretary of agriculture, Columbus. 
Pennsylvania.—The commissioner of fisheries, Harrisburg. 
Tennessee.—The department of game and fish, Nashville. 
West Virginia.—The forest, game, and fish warden, Philippi. 
Wisconsin.—The State conservation commission, Madison. 
This digest is based upon an examination of session laws and 
official or semiofficial compilations thereof. While the examination 
went to these sources in all cases, the references made by numbers 
in parentheses are to sections of the pamphlet copies of the laws 
issued by the State game departments, except in some cases where 
the year of enactment is given, and excepting Indiana and Mississippi; 
these numbers are the same as those given in the sources mentioned, 
except for lowa and West Virginia. In the Indiana pamphlet most 
of the sections are without numbers, and references herein not other- 
wise indicated are to Burns’s Annotated Statutes (1914). Mississippi 
has no pamphlet edition of its game and fish laws, and references 
are to Hemingway’s Annotated Code (1917); the 1918 session of the 
Legislature of Mississippi did not make any amendments. 
I. STATE AUTHORITY IN INTERSTATE WATERS. 
It is a common belief among Mississippi River fishermen, in some 
localities, that the States have no authority to protect fish on that 
river because, in their expression, it is ‘‘a Government water.’”’ The 
belief is wholly without legal basis, and in those regions where the 
