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thirty feet. This section shall not authorize the placing or use of nets or any other device of a 

 kind used for catching fish in streams inhabited by trout, nor the taking of trout by means of 

 nets or other devices except angling in any waters. The provisions of this section shall not 

 apply to salt waters. 



Size of Meshes in Coney Island Creek Regulated. 



§ 146. The meshes of nets used in Cone}- Island creek to the mouth thereof, extending out 

 into Gravesend Bay one-half mile each way, shall not be less than four inches square, except 

 that for eel and flounder fishing hoop-nets with suitable meshes may be used within said bay 

 from the fifteenth day of October to the thirty-first day of March following, both inclusive. 

 Whoever shall violate or attempt to violate the provisions of this section shall be guilty of 

 misdemeanor and in addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each 

 violation thereof. 



Frost Fish and White Fish May Be Taken with Nets in Certain Lakes. 



« 149. Frost fish and white fish may be taken from the waters of Otsego Lake in the 

 count\- of Otsego, from the first day of May to the thirty-first day of August, both inclusive, 

 with seines having meshes not less than one and three-quarter inches bar, provided, however, 

 that such fishing with seines shall only be done in the daytime, between sunrise and sunset, and 

 pickerel may be taken through the ice in said lake, by tip-ups or set lines ; and frost fish, 

 white fish or Otsego bass, lake trout, perch, eels, and pickerel may be taken from the waters of 

 said lake by rod and reel or by hook and line held in hand from the first day of January to the 

 thirty-first day of October, both inclusive. Frost fish, whitefish, catfish, sunfish, pumpkin 

 seeds, bullheads, perch and suckers may also be taken with nets from inland lakes not inhabited 

 by brook trout during such period, and in such manner and under such rules and regulations as 

 the commissioners of fisheries, game and forest may prescribe, which rules and regulations 

 may be amended or abrogated at any time. Such rules may be either general or special at the 

 option of the commissioners, and maybe published in such manner as they may deem proper. 

 Whoever shall violate or attempt to violate such rules and regulations or the provisions of this 

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

 a penaltv of one hundred dollars for each violation thereof. 



(As amd. by chap. 150 of Laws of 1896.) 



Fishing With Nets and Other Devices. 



5 1 50. Fishing with nets, seines, fykes, dip-nets or other devices except angling or placing, 

 drawing or using the same in any of the rivers, lakes and inland waters of this State is prohibited 

 except as permitted by this act, and except where otherwise provided. The meshes of all nets 

 seines, fykes and dip-nets which may be lawfully used shall in no case be less than one and one- 

 eighth inch bar. Whoever shall violate or attempt to violate the provisions of this section shall 

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