14 FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 
rock bass, crappie, muskellunge, and _pickerel is November 1 to May 20, inclusive. 
(1913, act 71, sec. 4.) Bag limits are 25 trout; 25 striped bass, rock bass, and crappie; 
12 black bass; 25 pike perch; 25 pickerel; 4 muskellunge; 50 yellow perch; 50 sunfish 
(35). In boundary lakes the limits are 25 rock bass or crappie and 12 black bass, 
muskellunge, or pickerel. (1913, act 71, sec. 4.) 
Only a single rod and line, or one hand line with not more than three hooks, may 
be used to take trout, pike perch, pickerel, muskellunge, fall fish, black bass, crappie, 
striped bass (fresh-water), and rock bass; other fish may be taken only by rods and 
lines or one hand line with not more than three hooks attached, all to be under the 
immediate control of the person using them (4, 6, 45). 
Minnows, killifishes, and stone catfish may be taken in dip net or minnow seine not 
over 4 feet in diameter, or a minnow trap with not more than one opening, which 
shall not exceed 1 inch in diameter (5, 45). 
The commissioner may promulgate rules for catching fish (121), and may set aside 
small streams and lakes as nurseries, and, after publishing and posting notice, prohibit 
fishing therein (124). 
Sunday fishing is prohibited (10). Within 100 feet of the lower end of any fishway 
or dam, or within any other distance specified in a notice posted by the commissioner, 
only rod, hook, and line fishing is permitted (92). 
Electricity, explosives, and poisonous substances shall not be used to take fish. 
(100; 1918, act 71, secs. 5 and 6.) 
Fishing for scientific research, or propagation, or stocking may be carried on under 
permit from the commissioner (120). 
In boundary lakes black bass, rock bass, crappie, muskellunge, and pickerel may 
be caught only with ‘‘rod and line having not more than three hooks, or with a hand 
line having not more than three hooks, or a spear used for catching carp and suckers 
only or with a trolling line with spoon hooks attached;” in bays or waters on any 
peninsula of boundary lakes any kind of fish may be taken only by means of rod 
and line or hand line, either to have not more than three hooks attached, or with 
a trolling line with spoon hooks attached; exceptions are made in favor of minnow 
nets. (1913, act 71, secs. 1-3.) 
In boundary lakes, subject to the limitations just stated and at distances from bays, 
streams, and the shore varying for different kinds of nets, licensees may use gill nets 
with mesh at least 3 inches stretch measure and not more than 30 meshes deep, or 
if for lake trout with mesh at least 54 inches stretch measure; also pound nets with 
crib having mesh at least 24 inches stretch measure, trap nets with mesh at least 
24 inches stretch measure, and set lines called ‘‘night ” lines. (1913, act 71, secs. 9 
and 11, as amended by 1915, act 226.) Nets, except gill and pound nets, must be 
tagged (1913, act 71, sec. 15.). 
Sturgeon fishing in Lake Erie shall be stopped for five years when the same pro- 
visions is made by Ontario, New York, and Ohio. (1917, act 32.) 
For shad, alewite, catfish, suckers, eel, and carp, licensees may use from March 1 
to June 20 in the Susquehanna River from McCall’s Ferry Dam to the Maryland 
State line, and within the limits of tidewater, the following kinds of tackle: Haul 
seine or shore seine, dip net, or hold-in net, sometimes called a moon rake, “‘with 
diameter of not more than 3 feet at the widest point and a length of not more than 7 
feet from heel of the bow, being the point of jointure of the sides of the bow at the 
handle.’? The mesh must be not less than 1} inches, knot to knot, while being 
fished (55-58). 
Fishing on the Delaware River is regulated by special acts. (1889, act 240, and 
1909, acts 201 and 269, and amendments. ) 
Fishing by unnaturalized foreign-born residents is forbidden. (1915, act 84.) 
The closed season on bullfrogs and tadpoles is from November | to July 1, inclusive, 
and on terrapin from March 15 to November 1; limits on catches are 25 bullfrogs or 
tadpoles in a day, 50 bullfrogs in a season, 5 terrapin in a day, and 50 terrapin in a 
season; bullfrogs shall not be taken by the use of a light at night. (1917, act 180. 
Tennessee.—Closed season on trout, black bass, landlocked salmon, crappie, an 
rock bass is from May 1 to June 15 (47). 
Trammel nets, baskets, dip nets, and set nets with mesh at least 2 inches in width 
may be used by licensees in Cumberland, Mississippi, Tennessee, Big Sandy, Obion, 
and Forked Deer Rivers, but not within 200 feet of any inlet nor within 300 feet of 
any lock or dam (49). With this exception, and also excepting the taking of fish 
from private ponds, and the seining of minnows for bait, fish shall not be captured 
by nets, traps, gun, gig, grabhook, poison, explosives, or any means other than rod 
and line and trot line (45). Minnows so taken must be under a length of 44 inches, 
and the net must not be over 10 feet long (46). ' 
West Virginia.—Closed season on pike perch, black bass, rock bass, pickerel, 
suckers, carp, and redhorse is April 1 to July 1, and on trout and landlocked salmon 
from August | to July 1 (42). Fishing on Sundays is prohibited (26). Small fishes, 
