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for the future protection of the beautiful and delicious denizens 

 of our noble rivers and lovely mountain streams. 



The act, for obvious reasons, does not embrace the border 

 waters of Ijake Erie or the Delaware Eiver, for all other water 

 ways in the state it goes into effect immediately. It embraces 

 the following : 



Section 1. These are game fish: Salmon, all species of trout, 

 black and Oswego bass, crappie, grass, strawberry, white and rock 

 bass, blue pike, pike-perch or Susquehanna salmon, pike, pickerel, 

 sunflsh and muscallonge. These are called food fish: Shad, white 

 fish, herring, lake herring, cisco, alewife, sturgeon and striped bass 

 or rock fish. 



Section 2. Game fish may be caught only with rod, hook and 

 line or hand line not having more than three hooks. Food fish only 

 with devices specifically named. Fine, $25. 



Section 3. Open season for brook trout, April 15th to July 31st; 

 lake trout, January 1st to September 1st; black bass, sunfish, all 

 species of bass except striped bass, pike-perch or Susquehanna sal- 

 mon, pike, pickerel and muscallonge, June 15th to February 15th. 

 Fine, $10 for each fish. (Note. — Striped bass or rock fish, shad and 

 herring, may be caught with rod, hook and line or trolling line at 

 any time). 



Section 4. Must not catch or kill white rock or strawberry bass 

 less than five inches in length; brook trout, less than six inches; 

 black bass, seven inches; lake trout, Oswego bass, striped bass or 

 rock fish, blue pike, pike-perch or Susquehanna salmon, pike, pick- 

 erel and muscallonge, less than nine inches in length. Fine, $10 for 

 each fish. 



Section b. Unlawful lo catch more than fifty brook trout in one 

 day. Fine, $10 for each fish over that number. 



Among the greatest enemies to the protection of the fiish 

 were nets, which scooped up all kinds and all ages of the fish, 

 from which the large ones were selected and the others either 

 thrown away or wasted as bait for larger fish in deeper streams. 

 Eel pots also were used to the detriment of the young fish. The 

 following laws concerning them, if properly enforced will be 

 very beneficial to the planted fry : 



THE ['SE OF NETS AND OTHER DEVICES. 



Section 6. Eel pots made of wicker work, five feet long, open- 

 ing two and one-half inches wide, lawful except in trout streams. 



Section 7. Lawful to use dip nets, spanning five feet, two inch 

 mesh, except in trout streams, during March, April, May, October, 



