FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER STATES. 13 
PROVISIONS PECULIAR TO THE RESPECTIVE STATES. 
Arkansas.—No limits. 
Illinois.— Restrictions do not apply to pole and line fishing. The limit on lake trout 
and whitefish is 14 pounds. The catfish restriction states ‘“‘blue and channel 
catfish.” 
Fish measurements are taken for “‘the length of the entire fish from the extreme 
tip of the snout to the extreme end of the tail fin,’ and turtle or terrapin for the 
extreme ends of the shell. 
Iowa.—A different limit is set for the species of sturgeon, being 1 patti for the 
sand sturgeon, or shovel-nose sturgeon, or hackleback, Scaphirhynchus platorhynchus 
(Rafinesque), and 3 pounds for the rock sturgeon or lake sturgeon, Acipenser rubicundus 
Le Sueur; the former would perhaps include the white sturgeon, Parascaphirhyncus 
albus Forbesand Richardson. The limit on lake trout and white fish is 1} pounds. 
Kentucky.—No limits. 
Louisiana.—The terrapin restriction is only on the diamond-back. Size peas for 
salt-water species are fixed by acts 53 and 54 of 1914. 
Minnesota.—Measurements are taken from tip of snout to fork of tail. A different 
size limit is set for the two species of pike perch, being 14 inches or 1 pound dressed 
for the wall-eye, and 10 inches for the sauger. Catfish under 15 inches tip to tip rough, 
or 12 inches dressed shall not be taken in nets in interstate waters. The limit on 
sturgeon is 15 pounds dressed weight; on lake trout 2 pounds round, or undressed 
weight, and 14 pounds dressed weight; and on whitefish 24 pounds undressed weight, 
or 2 pounds dressed weight. 
Mississippi.—No statutory limits. County boards have general authority to pro- 
tect fish (sec. 2305-2315). 
Missouri.—Measurements are taken from nose to fork of tail. The restrictions are 
applicable only to fish sold. The catfish restriction states ‘‘blue or channel catfish.”’ 
Wisconsin.—Measurements are taken from tip of snout to tip of tail. The limit for 
catfish in the Mississippi River and Lakes Pepin and St. Croix is 15 inches round and 
12 inches with head off; in all other waters 14 pounds round and 1 pound dressed. 
The limit on muskellunge is 5 pounds round and 4 pounds dressed. Lake trout less 
than 14 inches long shall not be taken with pound net in specified Great Lakes 
waters. The limit on whitefish is 2 pounds round and 14 pounds dressed. 
IV. LICENSES REQUIRED AND FEES THEREFOR. 
Arkansas.—The fee for devices other than hook and line for the purpose of catching 
fish for market is $25 (sec. 16); and for using artificial bait $1 (sec. 17). 
Illinois.—Fees for net fishing are as follows, the amounts in parentheses being 
for nonresidents: Each 100 yards of seine $5 ($10); dip or fyke nets, $1 ($2); hoop net, 
50 cents ($2); basket or trap net, 50 cents (?); in operation of gill or pound nets, steam 
tug, $25 ($200), gasoline launch, $15 ($50), sail or row boat, $10 ($30) (sec. 22). 
Clerk’s fee is 25 cents extra (sec. 23). 
Owners of property, their children and tenants may do net fishing, without license, 
from waters wholly within their property and not connected with any open stream 
(sec. 22). Gill and pound nets shall be operated only from a boat as listed hereinbefore 
(sec. 39). The fee for conducting a wholesale fish business is $10.50 (sec. 24). The 
commercial mussel fishing fee is $1.25 for residents and $25.50 for nonresidents; plus 
in either case $25 if a dredge is used (sec. 55). 
Iowa.—F ees for nets in the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers are as alla Each 
500 feet of seine, $10; pound net having more than 100 feet of lead on each side, $4; 
