334 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



Rates an d Regulations 



Relating to the use of nets, adopted by the board of fisheries, game and forests, at the city 

 of Albany, on the tenth day of July, 1895, pursuant to section [51 of the fisheries, game and 

 forest law, as amended by chapter 974 of the laws of 1895. 



All licenses for nets shall be granted pursuant and subject to the following rules, regula- 

 tions and restrictions, which shall be plainly printed on the back of each license issued, and 

 made a part thereof. 



1. Only one kind of net shall be used under each license granted. 



2. The license shall specify the kind of net to be used and the duration of the license. 

 Licenses will be granted for no longer than one year; all licenses granted during the year 

 will expire on the thirty-first day of December following ; and the chief fish, game and forest 

 protector may, at any time, in his discretion, revoke any license after notice to the licensee of 

 the charges made against him. 



3. A license issued, pursuant to these rules, is not transferable, and if a licensed net be 

 used by any other person than the licensee, it shall be deemed forfeited. 



4. A metal tag shall be issued with each license, upon which shall be stamped a number 

 corresponding with the number of the license; such tag must be attached to the net, when in 

 use. The licensee must exhibit his license, when required, to any game protector or peace 

 officer of this state, or to any person designated by the board of fisheries, game and forests. 



5. Licenses granted may be for one seine, not exceeding one hundred feet in length; two 

 fyke nets, not more than three feet in diameter, with leaders not more than fifty feet in length, 

 except in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. 



6. Nets shall be set, drawn or used only between sunrise and sunset, and no net shall remain 

 in the water after sunset unless raising them is prevented by the weather. (This rule shall not 

 apply to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.) Fish of all kinds, except those permitted to be taken 

 in nets by section one hundred and forty-nine, chapter nine hundred and seventy-four, laws of 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall, with careful handling, be returned to the water 

 immediately. 



7. The mesh of all nets used under any license shall not be less than one and one-quarter 

 inch bar (one and one-quarter inch square.) 



8. A licensed net shall only be used in the waters for which the license is given, and may 

 be determined by the commissioners and specified in the license. 



9. A violation of any of these rules and regulations, or any hereafter adopted, or of the 

 game laws of this state, shall be sufficient cause for the forfeiture of said license. 



10. Any person holding a license, who shall forfeit the same by reason of being hereafter 

 convicted of illegal fishing, or shall violate any of these rules, shall not thereafter be granted 

 another license, and no person shall be granted a license who, within the year preceding the 

 application, has been convicted of illegal fishing. 



11. All applications for licenses must be indorsed by two responsible persons. 



