10 FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER STATES. 
Minnesota.—Close season for trout, except lake trout, is September 1 to April 15; 
for black bass, March 1 to May 29; other varieties of fish, March 1 to May 1 (sec. 4807). 
Bag limit is 25 crappie or trout, 15 pike perch, 15 bass, except rock bass, and no person 
shall have in possession more than 25 bass (sec. 4808), and the taking of over 25 fish in 
one day is prohibited, with exceptions (sec. 4896). Crappie, trout, pike perch, and 
bass (except rock bass) shall be taken only with hook and line and not more than one 
line shall be used with not more than one bait, except that 3 artificial flies may be 
used in trout fishing (sec. 4808). Fishing for game fish in interstate waters is prohib- 
ited March 1 to May 29 (sec. 4830). Provision is made for closing trout streams to all 
fishing except during season for trout (sec. 4857-4859). And there are provisions for 
special localities (sec. 4885-4895). 
Fishing by means of set lines (sec. 4835), fishhouse (sec. 4866), and tip-ups (sec. 
4867, 4868) is regulated; see also provisions as to license fees for pole and line fishing 
by nonresidents, and set line fishing. Spears may be used for pickerel, suckers, red- 
horse, carp, and bullhead, subject to numerous restrictions (sec. 4808). 
Netting in inland lakes for whitefish and tullibee is permitted with numerous restric- 
tions (sec. 4808). In the Mississippi River within the State (from Falls of St. An- 
thony to 1,000 feet above the mouth of the St. Croix River) pound net, seine, or dip 
nets may be used to take sturgeon, redhorse, bowfin, buffalofish, catfish, pickerel, 
carp, and suckers, as follows: Not within 1,000 feet of mouth of a stream; pound net 
not over 75 feet long; seine not over 150 feet long; mesh in all cases not less than 24 
inches on bar (sec. 4819). Netting in certain waters is allowed for specified rough fish, 
under supervision of warden and subjéct to exceptions and to provisions as to mesh, 
bond, and reports, except, for most waters, April 1 to October 1 (ch. 261, laws 1915). 
In international waters pound and gill nets may be used by United States citizens, 
resident in Minnesota, under restrictions as to size, mesh, number of nets, leads, 
position, and season (sec. 4820, 4821). Netting in Lake Superior (except for cisco) is 
prohibited November 1 to December 1; also prohibited within half mile of shore 
(sec. 4874). In interstate waters fish, except catfish under 15 inches rough, 12 inches 
dressed, ‘‘pike”’ (pike perch?), pickerel, bass, sunfish, yellow perch, and crappie, may 
be taken by residents with nets, set lines, and spears, except April 15 to June 15 
(sec. 4826, 4827, 4829, 4833, 4834, 4835); no license is required for spearing (sec. 4833); 
the mesh is limited for each kind of net and for different parts of the same kind (sec. 
4834); set lines may have not more than 25 hooks, shall not be baited with live bait, 
and no person may have more than one (sec. 4835); nets must bear license number 
above water, and seines shall not be longer than 4,000 feet and shall not be raised at 
night (sec. 4840); fyke nets must be raised at least weekly (sec. 4841). 
Mussel fishing may be practiced commercially with one boat only, or an additional 
boat for towing, and with only two crowfoot bars not over 16 feet long each and only 
one dredge not over 3 feet long with prongs or forks not more than 4 inches long (ch. 
276, sec. 3, laws 1915). 
Commission may prescribe a closed season for frogs in certain districts (ch. 288, 
laws 1915). 
Mississippi.—Boards of supervisors have authority to regulate the times and the 
places in which and the circumstances under which fish may be taken (sec. 2306); 
they may entirely prohibit the catching of fish for one or more years or seasons when 
they believe that the supply of fish is about to be exhausted (sec. 2309); they may. pro- 
hibit 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 (sec. 2312). Fish traps may 
be prohibited or regulated by boards, but shall not wholly obstruct the passage of 
fish (sec. 2313). 
