10 SUMMAEY OF THE FISH LAWS. 



Florida. No restrictions on hook and line fishing, 

 Georgia. No restrictions on hook and line fishing. 

 Idaho. No restrictions on hook and line fishing. 

 Illinois. No restrictions on hook and line fishing. 

 Indiana. No restrictions on hook and line fishing. 

 Indian Territory. No fish laws are in force. 



Iowa. "It is unlawful to catch or kill any bass or wall-eyed pike between April 

 1 aiid June 1; or any salmon or trout between November 1 and February 1." 



Kansas. No restrictions on hook and line fishing. 

 Kentucky. No restrictions on hook and line fishing. 

 Louisiana. No restrictions on hook and line fishing. 



Maine. Hook and line or artificial flies cannot be used within 100 yards of any 

 fishway, dam or mill-race. The open seasons are as follows : Salmon from July 

 15 to Sept. 15; Land-locked salmon, trout and togue (lake trout), May 1 to Oct. 1; 

 (the open season closes for the three last named fish on September 15th in St. Croix 

 River and its tributaries, and in all the waters of Kennebec County); black bass and 

 white perch can be caught from July 1 to April 1. Citizens of the state can catcii 

 (for home consumption only) land-locked-salmon, trout and togue during the 

 months of Feby., March and April. Angling with any device except a single baited 

 hook or with artificial flies is prohibited under a penalty of $10 to $30 for each of- 

 fence and $1.00 for each fish caught. Sea or land-locked salmon under 9 in. or 

 trout less than 5 in. must be returned to the water, and no person is permitted to 

 catch, kill or have in possession for the purpose of transportation more than 50 Ibs. 

 in all of land-locked salmon or trout or togue, and if transported the fish must be 

 accompanied by the owner of them. Fishing is prohibited iintil Feby. 16, 1888 in 

 Rounds Brook and in Deep Brook, both of which are situated in York County; fish- 

 ing for trout and land-locked salmon'in Misery and Saccatien or Socatian rivers, 

 which empty into Moosehead Lake, is not allowed between Sept. 15 and May 1. The 

 following waters are prohibited from being fished for 3 years from Feby 19, 1885 : 

 Pickerel pond, Chadborn pond and Berry pond in Limerick. Fishing is not al- 

 lowed for six years from February 21, 1885 in the tributaries of Wilson pond in An- 

 droscoggin Co\mty; for five years from February 21, 1885, in Taylors pond and its 

 outlets as far down as Willis' lower mill dam; for 10 years from February 21, 1885 

 in Canaan pond and ponds immediately connected therewith located in Waldo and 

 Knox Counties. Winter fishing (November 1 to May 1) is prohibited in Allen pond 

 in Androscoggin County, also in Garland Village pond, Crowell's brook, Holt's Mill 

 pond in Penobscot County, the close season for the two last named extending to 

 May 15. "No person shall take, catch, kill, fish for, or destroy, any trout or land- 

 locked salmon in the Rangeley Stream, between the mouth of the Kennebago 

 Stream and the head of the island at the eddy, so called, in said Rangeley Stream, 

 from the 1st day of July to the 1st day of May; nor in that portion of said stream 

 from the head of said island to the Rangeley Dam, at any time; nor in the South 

 Bog Stream, which empties into Rangeley Lake, above the dead-water at the mouth 

 of said stream, from the 1st day of July to the 1st day of May; nor in the Bemis 

 Stream, which empties into Mooselucmaguntic Lake, above the blue water, so 

 called, at the mouth of said stream, from the 1st aay of July to the 1st day of May; 

 nor in the Cupsuptic Stream which empties into Cupsuptic Lake, between the foot 

 of the first falls towards its mouth and its source, from the 1st day of July to the 

 1st day of May; nor in the Kennebago Stream, between the foot of the first falls to- 

 ward its mouth and the upper falls at the outlet of Kennebago Lake, from the 1st 

 day of September to the 1st day of May." 



Manitoba, Province of. See Ontario and Quebec. 



Maryland. The open seasons are: For trout from April 1st to August 15. Black 

 bass can be caught during any month except May. The open season for brook 

 trout ends in Garrett County on August 1. No restrictions on fishing for black bass 

 with hook and line. 



Massachusetts. The open seasons are: Salmon, from May 1st to August 1; 

 brook trout, lake trout, and land-locked salmon, April 1 to September 1; black bass 

 from July 1 to December 1; smelt from June 1 to March 15. Trout cannot be takeii 

 from the following waters without permission of the land owners under penalties 

 imposed by statute: The stream at East Head, towns of Carver and Plymouth, ami 



