12 FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 
The department may prohibit the taking of any kind of fresh-water fish in any 
part of the State for not over three years (52). 
The department may grant written permits to take fish for the purposes of science, 
cultivation, or distribution (47). 
The department may adopt regulations for the protection and propagation of frogs 
and alligators; and fix the season during which and the size at which they may be 
taken or sold; but such regulations shall not prevent the killing of alligators found 
damaging levees or canals. (1918, house bills Nos. 118 and 120.) 
Diamond-back terrapin, unless artificially poopagaied, shall not be taken between 
April ” and June 15 (60, 61). Nest or eggs of terrapin must not be molested. (1910, 
act 50. 
Salt-water operations for fish, shrimp, and oysters are regulated by several acts. 
Minnesota.—Closed season for trout or salmon, except lake trout caught in inter- 
national waters, is September 1 to May 1 in northern part of State, and September 1 
to April 15 in southern part; for black bass, March 1 to June 15 in northern part of 
State, and March 1 to May 29 in southern part; other varieties of fish March 1 to May 1 
(4807). In interstate waters the closed season for black bass is the same, and for other 
game fish it is March 1 to May 1 (4830). 
Bag limits are 25 crappie or trout, 15 pike perch, 15 bass, except rock bass, and no 
person shall have in possession more than 25 bass, except rock bass (4808), and the 
taking of over 25 fish in one day is prohibited, with exceptions (4896). Crappie, 
trout, pike perch, and bass (except rock bass) shall be taken only with hook and line, 
and not more than one line shall be used, and it shall have not more than one bait, 
except that three artificial flies may be used in trout fishing (4808). Provision is made 
for closing trout streams to all fishing except during season for trout (4857-4859). And 
there are provisions for the more thickly populated localities (4885-4895). 
Fishing in a lake or stream within 50 feet of a fishway is forbidden (4864). 
Fishing on Sundays is unlawful. (Gen. Stat. of 1913, sec. 8753.) 
Fishing in certain waters by means of set lines (4835, 1917, ch. 333, sec. 4), fish 
house (4866, 1917, ch. 96, sec. 10), and tip-ups (4867-4868) is regulated. Spears may 
be used for specified food fish, subject to numerous restrictions (4808). 
Netting in inland lakes for whitefish and tullibee for domestic use is permitted 
with numerous restrictions (4808), likewise gill netting for herring for domestic use 
and not forsale. (1917, ch. 176.) The taking of fish from shallow waters is provided 
for. (1917, ch. 84.) The game and fish commissioner may catch and sell specified 
rough fish where it appears that they are detrimental to game fish. (1913, ch. 477.) 
In the Mississippi River within the State (from Falls of St. Anthony to 1,000 feet above 
the mouth of the St. Croix River) pound net, seine, or dip nets may be used to take 
sturgeon, redhorse, bowfin, buffalofish, catfish, pickerel, carp, and suckers, as follows: 
Not within 1,000 feet of mouth of a stream; pound net not over 75 feet long; seine 
not over 150 feet long: mesh in all cases not less than 24 inches on bar (4819). Net- 
ting in certain waters is allowed for specified rough fish, under supervision of warden 
and subject to exceptions and to provisions as to mesh, bond, and reports, except for 
most waters, April 1 to October 1. (1915, chs. 261 and 348; and 1917, ch. 386.) 
In international waters nets and set lines may be used by United States citizens 
resident in Minnesota, under restrictions as to size, mesh, number of nets, leads, 
position, and seasons. (1917, chs. 96 and 333.) 
In the St. Croix River and the interstate portion of the Mississippi River, fish, 
except catfish under 15 inches rough, 12 inches dressed, pike perch, pickerel, bass, 
sunfish, yellow perch, and crappie, may be taken by residents of Minnesota and, 
provisionally, of Wisconsin (4845) with nets, set lines, and spears, except April 15 to 
June 15 (4826-4835); no license is required for spearing (4833); the mesh is limited 
for each kind of net and for different parts of the same kind (4834); set lines may have 
not more than 300 hooks, shall not be baited with live bait, and no person may have 
more than one (4835); nets must bear license number above water; and seines shall 
not be longer than 4,000 feet and shall not be raised at night (4840); fyke nets must 
be raised at least weekly (4841). 
Drugs or explosives shall not be used to take fish (4865). 
The accredited representative of any incorporated society of natural history or 
college may collect fish for scientific purposes under permit of the game and fish 
commissioner (4771). 
Mussel fishing may be practiced commercially with one boat only, or an additional 
boat for towing, and with only two crowfoot bars not over 20 feet long each, and only 
one dredge not over 3 feet long with prongs or forks nor more than 4 inches long, and 
it is lawful to use a pitchfork; the commission may close areas to mussel fishing for 
periods not exceeding five years. (1917, ch. 471.) 
Commission may prescribe a ‘“‘closed season’”’ permanently or for a number of years for 
frogs (and game birds and animals protected by law) in certain districts. (1915, ch. 288.) 
