294 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



Fishing Near Fishways Prohibited. 



§ 1 1 8. Fishing or attempting to take fish by any device whatever within fifty rods of such 

 fishway, erected by the state, and any interference with the signboards there maintained by the 

 commissioners of fisheries, game and forest, is forbidden. Whoever shall violate or attempt to 

 violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and in addition 

 thereto shall be liable to a. penalty of twenty-five dollars for each violation and ten dollars for 

 each fish so taken, killed or possessed. 



Salt-water Striped Bass. 



§ 121. No salt-water striped bass less than eight inches in length shall be intentionally taken 

 from any of the waters of this state, nor possessed ; and, in case any such fish is taken, the 

 person so taking it shall immediately place such fish back into the water from which it was taken 

 without unnecessary injury. Whoever shall violate or attempt to violate the provisions of this 

 section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and in addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of 

 twenty-five dollars for each violation, and ten dollars for each fish, so taken, killed or possessed. 



§ 4. Article six of chapter four hundred and eighty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred 

 and ninety-two, is hereby amended to read as follows : 



ARTICLE VI. 

 Miscellaneous Provisions. 

 Section 130. Certain fish not to be placed in the waters of the Adirondacks. 



131. St. Lawrence river, Niagara river and Lake Champlain, fishing by certain 

 devices prohibited. 



132. Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Cattaraugus creek, fishing by certain devices 

 prohibited. 



134. Meshes of nets in Lakes Erie, Ontario and Cattaraugus creek. 



136. Taking shad, herring and other fish in the Hudson and Delaware rivers and 

 other waters. 



137. Salmon taken in nets from the Hudson river to be thrown back. 



138. Richmond county and New York or Raritan bay; regulations as to nets. 



139. Nets not to be used in the Harlem river. 



140. Exceptions as to Saint Lawrence and Warren counties. 



141. Certain fish may be caught through the ice in lakes named. 

 143. Eel-wiers. 



145. Taking minnows for bait. 



146. Size of meshes in Coney Island creek regulated. 



149. Frost fish and whitefish may be taken with nets in certain lakes. 



150. Fishing with nets and other devices. 



151. Nets to be licensed. 



152. Thumping. 



1 53. Exceptions as to commissioners of fisheries, game and forest. 



