FISH AND GAME LAWS. 
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the owners or occupants of all dams or artificial to be 
obstructions, where the State Board of Fish Com- 
missioners require such fishways to be provided, to 
keep the same in repair and open and free from 
obstructions to the passage of fish at all times ; 
and no person shall willfully destroy, injure, or 
obstruct any such fishway, or at any time take or 
catch any salmon, shad, or other migratory fish or 
trout, except by hook and line, within three hundred certain. 
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feet of any fishway required by the State Board of unlawful 
Fish Commissioners to be provided and kept open, 
or at any time take or catch any such fish in any 
manner within fifty feet of such fishway ; and 
every person violating any of the provisions of this 
Act is guilty of a misdemeanor, and every person 
found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions 
of this Act must be fined in a sum not less than 
one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county 
jail of the county in which the conviction shall be 
had not less than fifty days, or by both such fine 
and imprisonment ; and all fines imposed and col- 
lected for any violations of the provisions of this 
Act shall be paid into the State treasury to the 
credit of the “Fish Commission Fund.” [Amend- 
ment approved February 12, 1903.] 
Preservation of Seals and Sea Lions in Santa 
Barbara Channel. 
§ 637c. Every person who shoots or otherwise 
kills, destroys, wounds, maims, takes; captures or 
cripples, by seines, set-nets, nets, traps,, nets or any 
other kind of fixed, permanent or loose trap or con- 
