FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 19 
Fees for fishing in the Mississippi River and Lakes Pepin and St. Croix are as fol- 
lows: Seines for first 500 feet, $1 a hundred, second 500 feet, $2 a hundred, third at 
$3, fourth at $4, fifth at $5, and 2,500 to 4,000 feet at $6 a hundred; gill nets for first 
2,000 feet, $5, and for each additional thousand feet $5; pound or hoop nets with 
700-foot leader and one pound, $5, and for each additional pound $5; bait nets, $1 
each. For these waters fishermen must give bonds (29.34), 
Fees for netting whitefish and cisco in inland waters is 50 cents (29.35); for taking 
rough fish in Winnebago waters, $5 to $50 (29.36); for using set lines, $1 (29.37). 
Metal tags are required for nets and set lines, a fee of 25 or 50 cents each being 
charged for most kinds of nets (29.33-29.37). 
VI. SHIPPING AND SELLING FISHERY PRODUCTS. 
Arkansas.—The transportation of game fish beyond the State is limited to one 
day’s catch, and requires the filing of an affidavit with a notary, justice, or other 
authorized officer (58, 59). The game and fish commission may permit fish to be 
shipped from the State for propagation purposes (7), and may permit fish to be sold 
and.exported if privately propagated (8). 
Illinois.—Black bass shall not be sold nor, if taken within the State, pickerel or 
pike perch (41). These fish shall not be shipped, except not over 25 fish in one lot 
as baggage (43). Fish, except whitefish, lake trout. cisco, and yellow perch, shall 
not be shipped from April 20 to July 1, inclusive, nor frogs over a quarter of a pound 
from April 15 to July 1, inclusive (44). Shipments of fish must be marked to show 
contents and other facts (43, 45). Carriers are forbidden to receive from unlicensed 
dealers fish caught in the State (24). f 
Indiana.—The transportation beyond the State, or the sale of pickerel, pike perch, 
yellow perch, sunfish, black bass, rock bass, or other species of bass, is forbidden, 
unless taken from private ponds, and except that a person may carry beyond the 
State 24 fish caught by himself (2533c, 2535). 
Iowa.—Game fish shall not be shipped from inland waters for the purpose of sale 
and any person shipping game fish must deliver to the carrier a sworn statement (2). 
Louisiana.—Black bass, striped bass, crappie, and sunfish shall not be sold (38). 
All shipments of fish and shipments without the State of diamond-back terrapin 
must be marked to show contents and other facts (41, 62). Diamond-back terrapin 
artificially propagated may be sold, but not for food, during the closed season (61). 
Fish pa in the State must not be labeled as produced outside the State. (1906, 
act 112. 
Minnesota.—The sale or shipment of pike perch from stocked waters (4871), or of 
trout or salmon from inland waters, or of black bass (4870), or of fish caught in lakes 
in Hennepin, Ramsey, or St. Louis Counties (4876), is prohibited. The commission 
may prohibit the sale of crappie, yellow perch, or sunfish caught in stocked lakes 
~ (4877). Fish shall not be shipped beyond the State except specified rough fish and 
except not over 50 pounds taken by a nonresident for personal use; packages shall 
be marked to show contents and other facts. (4875, 1917, ch. 333.) 
Mississippi.—Boards of supervisors have authority to regulate by whom and in 
what quantities and to what extent fish may be marketed (4701). 
Ohio.—Black bass shall not be shipped out of the State or sold; rock bass, crappie, 
and sunfish shall not be sold (1429, 1480). Fish caught through ice shall not be sold 
(1427). ‘‘White bait” may be shipped out of the State only if alive; minnows may 
be sold only for bait (1433). Shipments of fish must be labeled (1444). 
Pennsylvania.—The sale of trout or black bass, whether caught in the State or 
elsewhere, is forbidden (110). 
West Virginia.—The sale or serving at licensed eating places of trout, salmon, 
pickerel, bass, and ‘‘silver perch” is prohibited, also the shipment out of the State of 
these species, or the commercial shipment within the State (20, 45). 
Wisconsin.—Shipments of wild animals, including fish, must be marked to show 
the contents and other facts, and the consignor must be the owner and must deliver 
to the carrier a statement that he is (29.34, 29.36, 29.43). The shipment of living 
young carp or bowfin is forbidden, and complicated regulations are made for the ship- 
ment of game fish (29.47). Transportation of fish into this State is forbidden if made 
from another State in violation of its laws (29.44). 
The sale of black bass, muskellunge, or trout is forbidden, also the sale of any other 
game fish taken from public inland waters during the period extending from the Ist 
day of January to the next succeeding 29th day of May (29.48). Game fish taken from 
public inland waters from January 1 to May 29 and trout shall not be served at eating 
places, nor frog during the closed season (29.49). 
