14 ; FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER STATES. 
pound net with less lead, $1; each bait, dip, hoop, and fyke net, 50 cents; each 300 
feet of trammel net used for floating fishing, $5. Metal tags are required and non- 
residents must give bond (sec. 11). 
Louisiana.—Fees for seines are as follows: Less than 300 feet, $25; 300 to 600 feet, 
$50; 600 to 900 feet, $100 (sec. 33). Fees for wholsesale dealing in fresh-water fish are 
$5 to $150, depending on the amount of business and whether the dealer is a resident 
or nonresident (sec. 34, 35). Fees for vessels purchasing fresh-water fish to make a 
cargo are $5 to $40, depending on tonnage of boat (sec. 36). The fee for buying and 
selling diamond-back terrapin is $25, and for buying, selling and shipping $100 for 
a resident and $200 for a nonresident or unnaturalized foreign-born resident (sec. 63). 
The fees for salt-water operations are fixed by_several acts. 
Minnesota.—Licenses of Wisconsin are accepted if it reciprocates (sec. 4845 and 
ch. 276 of laws 1915). 
The fee for seine, pound, or dip nets in the Mississippi River within the State is $5 
for each net (sec. 4819). In international waters the fees are $25 for pound net and 
$10 for gill net (sec. 4820, 4821). In interstate waters the fees are: For seine $1 a hun- 
dred feet up to 500 feet, then $2 a hundred to 1,000 feet, then $3 a hundred to 1,500 
feet, then $4 a hundred to 2,000 feet, then $5 a hundred to 2,500 feet, then $6 a hundred 
to 4,000 feet; for gill nets $5 for 2,000 feet and $5 for each additional thousand; for 
pound net, with leader not exceeding 700 feet, $5, and for each pound net in excess of 
one used with one leader, $5; fyke or hoop net, $5; bait or turtle nets, $1; metal tags 
are 25 cents each (sec. 4836). Fee for inland commercial fishing is 20 per cent of 
gross receipts plus expenses and compensation of warden (ch. 261 of laws 1915). 
Fees for set line (sec. 4836), fishhouse (sec. 4866), tip-up license (sec. 4868), and non- 
resident pole and line license if fisherman over 21 years old (sec. 4879) are $1 each. 
The commercial mussel fishing fee is $1 for residents and $25 for nonresidents, 
plus in either case $25, if a dredge is used (ch. 276 of laws 1915). 
Tennessee.—The fee is $2 for each net or basket (sec. 49). 
Wisconsin.—F ishing licenses of Minnesota and lowa are accepted if those States 
reciprocate (sec. 62.07). 
Licenses are issued only to natural persons (not to corporations) (sec. 62.11). 
Fees for nonresidents are as follows: Mussel fishing, $50 (sec. 62.44); fishing in inland 
waters if fisherman over 16 years old, $1 (sec. 62.25); operating gill net in Great Lakes 
waters with steam vessel having steam lifter, $200, or without steam lifter, $100, or 
with any other vessel not propelled by oars, paddle, or pole, $50 (sec. 62.34). 
Fees for residents or nonresidents in Great Lakes waters are as follows: Pound or 
gill nets (except as hereinbefore noted), $2; fyke, drop, or trap nets, trammel net, 
seine, or set lines, $1 (sec. 62.34). 
Fees for fishing in the Mississippi River and Lakes Pepin and St. Croix are as 
follows: 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 (sec. 62.35). 
Metal tags are required for nets and set lines at 25 cents each (sec. 62.34, 62.35, 
62.39). 
Fees are from $5 to $50 for net fishing in specified inland waters (sec. 62.37, 62.38). 
Fee for set lines in specified waters is $1 (sec. 62.39). 
