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12. All persons holding a license shall make monthly reports to the chief protector of all 

 nets drawn, with statement of number and kind of fish caught and the value of the same. 



13. Each applicant shall, at the time of filing his application, pay to the secretary of this 

 board a fee of one dollar for such license. 



14. No pickerel, pike, black or Oswego bass, trout of any kind, salmon, perch, wall-eyed 

 pike or muskallonge shall be taken with nets under these rules and regulations ; the license to 

 be issued hereunder shall specify what fish may be caught. 



15. The use of gill-nets will not be permitted in any of the fresh waters of this state, except 

 in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, more than one mile from shore, or from the islands therein, 

 except as specially authorized by law. Gill-nets of not less than two-inch bar may be used in 

 Lake Ontario and Lake Erie more than one mile from shore, after being duly licensed. 



16. Eel-pots must not exceed in length fifty-six inches and in diameter not more than 

 twelve inches, if round or otherwise, and not more than twelve inches square, if square in form ; 

 that the aperture or mouth of all eel-pots shall not be more than one and one-half inches in 

 diameter, if round in form or otherwise, and not more than one and one-half inches square, if 

 square in form ; and that there shall be no fixtures or wings of any kind attached to or used in 

 connection with eel-pots, intended to stop fish or to guide or force them into the mouth of the pot. 



17. A bond to the people of the state of New York in the penal sum of three hundred dol- 

 lars, with two sureties, to be approved by the board of fisheries, game and forests, conditioned 

 that the applicant or applicants will not violate or attempt to violate any of the provisions of 

 the laws of the state of New York relating to the protection of game and fish, and that he 

 or thev will faithfully observe all the rules and regulations of the board of fisheries, game and 

 forests, so far as the same are applicable to, or made a part of, the conditions of the license, 

 will be required before any license will be issued. 



18. The board of fisheries, game and forests reserve the right to alter, amend, repeal or 

 modify any or all of the foregoing rules and regulations, and may adopt new ones at any 

 time as they deem expedient. They may revoke any license granted hereunder at any time, 

 and for any reason which, to them, may seem sufficient. Nothing contained in any of these 

 rules and regulations shall be construed as compelling the issuing of a license to any person, 

 nor to prevent the revoking of such license at any time. 



Information for All Wl)o Appl^ for 5tate Fi<#. 



Albany, N. Y., April, 1896. 



All persons who desire to obtain fish or fish fry from the fisheries, game and forest commis- 

 sion for planting in public waters of the state (for under no circumstances are fish furnished by 

 the state to be planted in private waters), should apply to the secretary of the commission at 

 the office in Albany, for blanks to be filled out for this purpose, at the same time stating the 

 kind or kinds of fish desired. Three different blanks are furnished. Blanks for trout fry, 



