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uestts protected, excepting crows, English sparrows, hawks and owls. The 

 Governor may commission persons to take birds or nests for scientific pur- 

 poses, hut tiie whole number holding commissions shall- not exceed ten 

 ataiy one time. A bounty of five dollars-paid for every wolf and bear 

 MUed in any town. Transportation and exportation of game pro- 

 hbited, unless tagged and open to view. Shooting and hunting 

 on Sunday prohibited. Black bass, July 1 to April 1; illegal to 

 take at any time from their spawning beds. No salmon, shad 

 ^or ot»er migratory fish shall be taken or fished for within five hun- 

 dred yirds of any fishway, dam or millrace, nor in the tenobscot River 

 between the mouth, of the Kenduskaag Stream and the waterworks dam 

 at Treat's Falls, on said river; nor between the Augusta highway bridge 

 over the Kennebec River and the Augusta dam, between April 1 and 

 November 1, except with a single hook and line, nor shall hook and line 

 or artificial files be used at any time within one hundred yards of any 

 fishway, dam or millrace; provided that fly fishing shall be allowed up to 

 the bridge across Denny's River at Lincoln's Mill, but not between the 

 said bridge and Lincoln's milldam. No salmon shall be killed or taken 

 in any manner betwaen July 15 and April 1, except that between July 15 

 and September 15 salmon may be taken with a rod and single line. Ale- 

 wives, April 1 to July 15; not allowed to be taken at any time in non-tidal 

 or non-navigable waters by any net other than the ordinary hand dip- 

 net. Smelts, in tidal waters, with hook and line only, Octbber 1 to April 

 1. Land-locked sUmon, trout and togue, May 1 to October 1, except on 

 the St. Croix River and its tributaries, and all the waters in Kennebec 

 County, which is from May 1 to September 15. White perch, Julj^ 1 to 

 April 1. Daring February, March and April bona fide citizens of Maine 

 may fish for and take to their own homes land-locked salmon, trout and 

 togue. Grapnels, spears, trawls, weirs, nets, scenes, traps, spoons, set—' 

 lines, or any device other than the single baited hook and line, or with 

 artificial flies, prohibited in all fresh water lakes, ponds and streams 

 The taking of sea salmon or land-locked salmon less than nine inches in 

 length, or trout less than five inches in length, prohibited. Not more 

 than fifty pounds, at any one time, of land-locked salmon, trout or tosue, 

 in all, allowed to be transported by one person, and must be in pos- 

 session of the owner. Dip-nets, with meshes smaller than one inch square 

 in the clear, in any waters^ frequented by migratory fishes except the St. 

 Croix River, October 1 to April 1. The pollution of streams by offal of 

 any kind prohibited. " Special laws govern the sea and shell fish indus- 

 tries Special laws: Trout, land-locked salmon or other fish in the 



Misery and Saccatien or Socatian rivers which empty into Moosehead 



Lake, may be taken only from May 1 to September 10 Trout and 



land-locke 1 salmon in the Kennebagi, Rangeley, Cupsuptic, Mooselucma- 

 guntic, MoUychunkamunk and WelokeunebacooK Lakes, or in streams 

 flowing into or connecting said lakes, may be talien nly from May 1 to 

 February 1. The use of spawn as bait for fishing in any of the foregoing 



