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poses, after written permission is obtained from proper national, 

 state, city or county official. Fine, $100 and imprisonment for six 

 monins. 



Section 27. Unlawful to plant German carp or use this fish for 

 bait. Fine, $100. 



Section 28. Unlawful to plant pike, pickerel, black bass or 

 carnivorous fish in waters inhabited by trout without consent of 

 owners and Fish Commissioners. Fine, $100. 



Section 29. Bait fish may be caught by minnow nets for ang- 

 ling or scientific purposes, and game fish during close season by 

 owners of water for stocking other waters; provided such netting is 

 done under supervision of the Commissioners or authorized repre- 

 sentatives. Commissioners may also remove injurious fish with 

 nets at any time. 



There are times in which valuable food fish fall off in quan- 

 tity with the danger of extinction if some means is not provided 

 for their defense. The following law was formulated to meet 

 such emergency : 



OTHER FISH THAX THOSE SPECIFICALLY NAMED. 



Section 30. The Fish Commission may declare by public proc- 

 lamation a close season in any fish not specifically named in the 

 act; provided such close season shall not prevail for more than 

 three years. Fine for catching such fish in close season, $25. 



Tliere are fishes in our rivers that are regarded as good for 

 food but which are not included in the species that are under the 

 direct protection of the society. These are free to be taken at 

 any time considered seasonable, providing the protected varie- 

 ties are left unmolested, it being stated in a former section of 

 this act that any so taken shall be returned to the water. The 

 section relating to free fishing is as follows: 



Section 31. Fish not specifically named in the act as game or 

 food fish may be taken at any time of the year with rod, hook and 

 line or hand line not having more than three hooks; provided this 

 does not conflict with the conditions of the previous section. 



Section 32. The prohibitions and penalties in the act do not 

 apply to the Delaware river or Lake Erie 



Having thus made plain the laws regulating the catching of 

 the food fishes which have been considered of sufficient impor- 

 tance to require the attention of such a body of men as the gov- 

 ernment now upholds, it was deemed advisable to form laws to 



