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FISH AND GAME LAWS. 
Mad 
river 
open 
season. 
Streams 
closed 
districts 
5 . 6 . 
Sale 
during 
closed 
season. 
Tide- 
water 
limit. 
and the twenty-third day of October, and 
every person who at any time takes, catches 
or kills any salmon above tide water in Eel 
river except with spear or hook and line, or 
gill nets as herein provided for, is guilty of a 
misdemeanor; and provided, further, that it 
shall be lawful to take, catch or kill salmon 
in Mad river from its mouth in the ocean to 
Carson’s bridge with gill nets, the meshes 
thereof which are, when drawn close up to- 
gether and measured inside the knots, six 
and one half inches or more in length, be- 
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tween the twenty-third day of October and 
the first day of February of the year fol- 
lowing ; and provided, further, that every per- 
son who takes, catches, or kills any salmon at 
any time in any stream, river, creek or lagoon 
in fish and game districts number five or six, 
excluding the San Joaquin river, except with 
hook and line in the manner known as 
angling is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
The provisions of this section shall not pro- 
hibit the possession, purchase, sale, or offer or 
exposure for sale or shipment of any salmon 
lawfully taken -in the waters of this state 
when the same shall be accompanied by an 
invoice in duplicate showing the name and 
address of the consignor and consignee and 
bearing, after inspection, such evidence of 
having been so caught or taken as shall be 
required by the fish and game commission ; 
and the cost of such inspection and marking 
must be paid by the person or persons sub- 
mitting such salmon for inspection and 
marking. 
In the construction of this section, limits 
of tidewater in Eel river in Humboldt county 
