FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 21 
Pennsylvania.—‘‘Game” fish, ‘‘bait” fish and ‘‘food” fish are defined. (4-6; 
1913, act 71, sec. 1.) Trout and black bass may be retained in possession six days 
after the end of the open season (17). When required by the board of fishery commis- 
sioners dam owners shall erect and maintain fishways (85-90). Dam owners must not 
strand fish (91). When required by the commissioners proprietors must install a 
bar rack to exclude fish from water wheels, pumps or canals (93-94). No person shall 
place obstructions to the passage of fish (95). 
Artificial propagation is regulated (19, 28, 38, 48, 62, 70-81, 114). Dealers may be 
required by the commissioner to make reports (112). Representatives of the State 
must be permitted to accompany licensees on boundary lakes for the purpose of taking 
spawn. (1915, act 226.) Fish from boundary lakes shall not be used for fertilizer 
without the consent of the department of fisheries. (1913, act 71, sec. 8.) 
Tennessee.—Obstructions shall not be placed in streams for the purpose of captur- 
ing fish (48). Certain counties are excepted from the operation of the general law, and 
special provisions of various sorts are made for more than half the counties of the State, 
as well as for Reelfoot Lake and the Appalachian Game Preserve. County courts may 
provide for fish traps. (Thompson’s Shannon’s Code, 1918, sec. 1721.) 
West Virginia.—Owners of dams and other obstructions must build and maintain 
fishways in a manner satisfactory to the State warden (43). Fish may be had in posses- 
sion 20 days after the end of the open season (20). 
Wisconsin.—Great Lakes waters are defined as ‘‘outlying” and all other waters as 
“inland’’ (29.01). Until the conservation commission otherwise determines, rough 
fish are: Minnows, suckers, carp, redhorse, drum, burbot, bowfin, gar, buffalofish, and, 
in certain waters, pickerel; game fish are all other kinds (29.01). 
Screens set in public waters to prevent the free passage of fish, or set in streams 
stocked by the State, are declared to be nuisances (29.03). Old and abandoned dams 
may be removed, and dams on State land may be repaired by the commission (29.04). 
Licensees for the Mississippi River and Winnebago waters are permitted to retain 
fish in temporary ponds (29.34, 29.36). Reports are required from licensees for the 
Great Lakes and the Mississippi River (29.33, 29.34). 
