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Certain Fish Not to be Placed In the Waters of the Adirondacks. 



5 1 30. No fish, fish fry, spawn or melt, except speckled trout, brook trout, brown trout, salmon 

 trout, rainbow trout, Adirondack frost fish or land-locked salmon, shall be placed in the waters of 

 the Adirondack region except under the immediate supervision and in pursuance of a resolution of 

 the commissioners of fisheries. 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 five hundred dollars for each violation thereof. 



Saint Lawrence River, Niagara River and Lake Champlain, Fishing by 

 Certain Devices Prohibited. 



5 131. No fish shall be fished for, caught or killed in any manner, or by any device except 

 angling in the waters of the St. Lawrence river, Niagara river, nor in Lake Champlain in this 

 state, except that it shall be lawful to fish with seines, machines or traps in that portion of the 

 waters of Niagara river adjacent to and included within the limits of the town of Lewiston, county of 

 Niagara, for the purpose of catching fish of all kinds, except black bass, yellow pike, salmon 

 trout, whitefish, pickerel and muskallonge, during the same months in the year in which it is law- 

 ful for a citizen of the Dominion of Canada to fish in like manner and for a like purpose in that 

 portion of the waters of said river within said dominion adjacent or opposite to those herein last 

 aforesaid ; provided, however, that no such seine, machine or trap shall be used for fishing pur- 

 poses without first obtaining a license to use the same from the commissioners of fisheries, game 

 and forests, who, upon application of a person entitled thereto, as provided herein, may grant 

 such license upon payment of five dollars a year for each and every seine, machine or trap 

 licensed. No license, however, shall be granted to any person except citizens of the United 

 States of America, and except that it shall be lawful to take bullheads, eels, suckers, catfish and 

 pike or pickerel in Lake Champlain, except during the months of March, April and May, and in 

 the waters of Niagara river during the months of November, December, January and March it 

 shall be lawful to take all fish excepting black bass and muskallonge with a seine, providing that 

 permission so to do has been first obtained from the commissioners of fisheries, game and forests, 

 and fish taken contrary to the provisions of this section shall not be knowingly possessed. No 

 fish shall be taken from the waters of Silver lake or the marshes adjoining such lake, by any means 

 or device whatever, during the months of March and April. Whoever shall violate or attempt 

 to violate the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and in addition 

 thereto, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each violation thereof. 

 (As amd. by chap. 783 of Laws of 1896.) 



Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Cattaraugus Creek, Fishing by Certain 

 Devices Prohibited. 



5 132. No fish shall be fished for, caught or killed in any manner or by any device except 

 angling, in the waters of Lake Erie, within one-half of a mile of the shores thereof, or of any of the 

 islands therein ; nor in the Cattaraugus creek, or within five miles of the mouth thereof, or of any 



