FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER STATES: A DIGEST OF STATUTES 
RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF FISH AND MISCELLANEOUS 
AQUATIC ANIMALS OF STATES BORDERING ON THE MISSISSIPPI 
RIVER. 
By Emerson Srrineuam, Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Fisheries. 
INTRODUCTION 
This digest of the laws as they existed January.1, 1917, is based 
upon the statutes or pamphlet copies of the statutes as issued by 
the commissions or wardens of the several States, as follows: 
Arkansas.—Act 124, 1915, and ‘‘Game and fish laws of the State of 
Arkansas”’ (no date). 
Illinois.—Game and fish act of 1915. 
Jowa.—Fish and game laws in force July 4, 1915. 
Kentucky.—Fish and game laws in force June 14, 1916. 
Louisiana.—Conservation laws, compiled 1914-15, and acts of 
State of Louisiana, 1916. 
Minnesota.—Game and fish laws, 1915. 
Mississippi.—Code of 1906 and session laws 1908 to 1916, inclusive. 
Missouri.—Game law as amended by Forty-eighth General As- 
sembly (1915). 
Tennessee.—Game and fish law. (Ch. 152, acts 1915.) 
Wisconsin.—Chapter 594, laws 1915. 
Section references used hereinafter are for the sections as numbered 
in the pamphlet copies of the laws. The Louisiana and Kentucky 
pamphlets include several statutes, each with its own series of num- 
bers for sections; to have indicated the act each time would have 
made references cumbersome, and it was thought better to avoid this 
even at the cost of some indefiniteness in references. 
Penalties, administration, and procedure, have not been covered; 
the last includes authority to arrest, seize unlawful implements, etc., 
rewards for information as to violations, forgery of licenses, provi- 
sions for witnesses, limitations of times within which actions may be 
commenced, sale or destruction of things confiscated, and disposition 
of fines, fees, etc. Special provisions for counties, and other sub- 
divisions of the States are not always included in the pamphlet copies 
of game laws, and are generally not digested herein. 
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