18 FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 
for floating fishing, $5. Metal tags at 10 cents each are required to be used and non- 
residents must give bond (11). 
Kentucky.—Netting licenses are issued by the county clerks. The fees for resi- 
dents are $1.25 for one net, and $1 for each additional net; for nonresidents the fees 
are doubled. (1918, house bill, 181.) 
Louisiana.—Licenses are issued by the department of conservation. Fees for 
seines are as follows: Less than 300 feet, $25; 300 to 600 feet, $50; 600 to 900 feet, $100 
(33). Fees for wholesale dealing in fresh-water fish are $5 to $150, depending on the 
amount of business and whether the dealer is a resident or nonresident (34, 35). Fees 
for vessels purchasing fresh-water fish to make a cargo are $5 to $40, depending on 
tonnage of boat (36). The resident fee for buying and selling diamond-back terrapin 
is $25, and for buying, selling, and shipping, $100; the fee for nonresident or un- 
naturalized foreign-born resident for buying, selling, or shipping is $200 (63). 
The fees for salt-water operations are fixed by several acts. 
Minnesota.—Nonresident pole and line licenses are issued by the county auditor 
(4880) and other licenses by the State game and fish commissioner and deputies (4881). 
Licenses of Wisconsin are accepted if it reciprocates. (4845 and ch. 471 of 1917.) 
Fees for fish house (4866), tip-up license (4868), nonresident pole and line license 
if fisherman is over 21 years old (4879), and for netting in inland lakes for whitefish 
and tullibee (4808), or for herring (1917, ch. 176) are $1. 
The fee for seine, pound, or dip nets in the Mississippi River within the State is 
$5 for each net (4819). In international waters the fees are based upon the vessel 
used in Lake Superior, and upon the tackle used in other lakes. (1917, chs. 96 and 
333.) In interstate waters the fees are: For seine, $1 a hundred feet up to 500 feet, 
then $2 a hundred to 1,000 feet, then $3 a hundred to 1,500 feet, then $4 a hundred 
to 2,000 feet, then $5 a hundred to 2,500 feet, then $6 a hundred to 4,000 feet; for gill nets, 
$5 for 2,000 feet, and $5 for each additional thousand; for pound net with leader 
not exceeding 700 feet, $5, and for each pound net in excess of one used with one 
leader, $5; each fyke or hoop net, $5; each bait or turtle net or set line, $1; metal tags 
are 25 cents each (4836). Fee for inland commercial fishing is 10 per cent or more of 
gross receipts plus expenses and compensation of warden. (1917, ch. 386.) 
The commercial mussel-fishing fee is $5 for residents and $50 for nonresidents, plus 
in either case $25 if a dredge is used. (1917, ch. 471.) 
Ohio.—Licenses are required for fishing with devices other than hook and line in 
the Lake Erie district, and are issued by the secretary of agriculture (1435). The 
fees for fishing with gill nets are as follows: Rowboat, $4; sailboat, $6; gasoline boat, 
$12.50; and steamboat, $20. The fee for fishing trot lines is $1.50 for each rowboat; 
for each seine, $4; for each pound net, $3; and for each device of any other kind, 
$1.50 (1436). Metal tags must be used on devices other than gill net and hook and 
line, but are issued without charge (1438). 
Pennsylvania.—Licenses are issued by the department of fisheries. The fee for 
using a net in the lower Susquehanna or in tide waters is $2 (55). The fee for arti- 
ficial propagation is $10 (70). ees for fishing in boundary lakes are as follows: For 
row or sail boat used in fishing with gill net, $5; other boat under 10 tons gross burden 
so used, $10, of 10 to 20 tons $15, of over 20 tons $20; for each pound net, $10; for other 
net or device (except lines having not more than 3 hooks, a spear for taking carp and 
suckers and trolling spoons) 50 cents to $5 as determined by the department. Hols, 
act 226.) Licenses for boundary waters shall not be issued to residents of a State or 
county (country?) whose laws prohibit the issuance of a license to residents of Penn- 
sylvania. (1913, act 71, sec. 14.) 
Tennessee.—Licenses are issued by clerks of the county courts; the fee is $2 for 
each net or basket (49). 
West Virginia.—Licenses for foreigners and nonresidents (angling and trot lining) 
are issued by county clerks; the fee is $5, but no license is required from nonresident 
owners or their children for fishing on their own land (42). 
Wisconsin.—Licenses are issued by the State conservation commission, through 
agents in the case of hook and line licenses and through the county clerks in other 
cases (29.09, 29.15). Fishing licenses of Minnesota and lowa are accepted if those 
States reciprocate (29.16). Licenses are issued only to persons (29.09). 
Fees for nonresidents are as follows: Mussel fishing, $50 (29.38); hook and line 
fishing in inland waters for male fisherman over 16 years old, $1 (29.14); operating 
gill net in Great Lakes waters with steam vessel having steam lifter, $200, or, without 
steam lifter, $100, or with any other vessel not propelled by oars, paddle, or pole, $90, 
or a boat so propelled, $2 (29.33). 
Fees for residents or nonresidents in Great Lakes waters are as follows: Gill net or 
nets, or each pound net and leader (except as noted for nonresidents), $2; trap, fyke, 
Coa” or nets with leaders, or each seine, $5; each trammel net or set hooks, $1 
29.33). 
