FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 13 
Mississippi.—Boards of supervisors have authority to regulate the time and the 
places in which and the circumstances under which fish may be taken (4700-4703); 
they may entirely prohibit the catching of fish for one or more years or seasons when 
they believe that the supply is about to be exhausted (4704); they may prohibit the 
use of seines, barrel nets, gill nets, and other like contrivances, or any of them, or 
may restrict the use of the same to places which annually go dry, and may prohibit 
or regulate the use of the same in particular waters, and may prescribe what kinds of 
seines or nets may be used and when and where (4707). The use of fish traps may be 
prohibited or regulated by boards, and every fish trap which wholly obstructs the 
-passage of fish shall be unlawful (4708). Fish shall not be taken by means of explo- 
sives (902), and shall not be poisoned (1062). Fishing on Sunday (1105) or on the 
premises where the owner has posted a notice forbidding it is unlawful (1135). 
Missouri.—Gigging and spearing are prohibited from December to April, inclusive; 
all fishing except hook and line and gigging are prohibited during April and May; 
not more than 50 pounds of fish, in addition to one individual fish, shall be gigged or 
speared in one day, and that for domestic use only (6548). Fishing through ice is 
' prohibited (6549). 
A glass or wire minnow trap, or a seine not more than 20 feet long and 4 feet wide 
may be used to take minnows and small sunfish for bait; residents may net fish for 
food, but not for commerce, from temporary overflows; the owner of the land, or other 
person by his permission, may use a 2-inch-mesh seine to take fish from unnavigable 
streams during July, August, and September, for consumption, but not for sale; 
bowfin, paddlefish, and gars may be taken at any time and in any manner, except 
by explosives (6548). ; 
Seines, trammel, and hoop nets with mesh at least 2 inches square may be used in 
the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers from June to March, inclusive, but not within 
300 yards of the mouth of any stream or slough. With the exceptions just stated, and 
excepting also fish taken in private pond or reservoir wholly upon the premises of 
the owner or occupant and by his consent, it is unlawful to take fish by any means 
other than hook and line, gig, spear, trot line, or artificial bait (6548). Fishing devices 
shall not obstruct the free passage of fish through watercourses (6535). Within 200 
feet of a fishway fish may be taken only by means of pole, line, single hook, and 
natural bait (6549). 
Fish shall not be taken by means of explosives or drugs (6537, 6538). 
Under permit by the game and fish commissioner fish may be taken for scientific 
or propagating purposes (6568). : 
Pearl fishing is prohibited from March to June, inclusive (6551). 
Ohio.—For black bass the closed season in inland district is the month of May, 
and in Lake Erie district May 25 to July 15, inclusive (1428). Trout and salmon may 
be caught only from April 15 to September 15, inclusive (1431). Bag limits are 12 
black bass or 40 sunfish; black bass, crappie, and rock bass may be taken only with 
hook and line (1428). Trespassing on a private fishery is unlawful. (1912, Gen. 
Code, secs. 10174 and 12525.) Fishing on Sunday is forbidden. (1912, Gen. Code, 
sec. 13048.) Fishing in inland district is permitted only with hook and line, and in 
streams, by the owner of the adjoining land or under his consent, with trot line, bob 
line, or spear (1426). Ice fishing in inland district is permitted only through two 
holes not more than 23 feet each in diameter; not more than two hooks shall be used 
on one line (1427). Minnows may be taken only for bait; in inland waters they may 
be caught with a seine not exceeding 4 feet by 8 feet, and in the Lake Erie district 
by a seine not exceeding 30 feet in length (1433). Explosives, poisonous substances, 
and electricity shall not be used to take fish (1446). 
Fish in pools left by receding waters may be taken in any manner (1456). 
Closed season for netting in the Lake Erie district is December 16 to March 14, 
inclusive (1434, 1442). In this district the following kinds of tackle may be used: 
Pound, gill, fyke, trap, and devil net, seine, trot line, and hook and line limited to 
three hooks; no fish shall be driven into any net by noise or other disturbance (1438). 
The mesh of gill nets shall not be less than 3 inches, stretched factory measure; pound 
and fyke nets shall have a specified portion with not less than 23-inch mesh, and that 
portion shall not be puckered (1441). Netting is prohibited in parts of the district 
(1439, 1440, 1450, 1452). Carp may be taken at any time in waters connected with 
Lake Erie by a seine having mesh not less than 4 inches stretch, or by other nets 
authorized by the secretary of agriculture (1453). 
aaa may be netted only with ‘‘single seine or net” with mesh 4 inches square 
Pennsylvania.—Closed seasons on fish are as follows: Trout, August 1 to April 14, 
inclusive; lake trout, September 30 to June 30, inclusive; black bass, rock bass, striped 
bass (fresh-water), crappie, pike perch, pickerel, muskellunge, and yellow perch, 
December 31 to June 30 (15). In boundary lakes the closed season on black bass, 
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