Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1913 — FISH AND GAME LAWS AS REVISED TO DATE [ARTICLE]

FISH AND GAME LAWS AS REVISED TO DATE

Few But Important Changes Made by Recent Legislature in Present Game Laws of Indiana. - V .:. V ... George W. Miles, commissioner of fisheries and game, is preparing to issue a compilation of the laws of the state regarding hunting and fishing. Numerous additions to the former laws were made by the recent session of the legislature and these hew prohibitions are to be contained in the forthcoming pamphlet. The pamphlet will include the following unlawful acts: To hunt off your own premises without a license. To kill, or to possess, either dead or alive, at any time, except for breeding purposes, any deer, wild turkeys or pheasants, except that owners of private parks may kill deer reared therein. To net or trap quails at any time or to possess nets or traps for the purpose of catching them.'" To kill or possess quails or ruffed, grouse before the tenth day of No vember or after the twentieth day of December (former law closed season January 1). To kill or possess more than 15 quails in one day or to possess more that 45 at any time during the open season. To sell, or offer to sell, directly or indirectly, any quails At any time. To kill or possess any water fowl before the first day of September or after the fifteenth of April. To kill or pursue, any water fowl between sunset of any day and sunrise of the following morning. To pursue any water fowl with A: launch or apy boat except a roiv boat or push boat. To kill more than 15 ducks, geese, brant or other water fowl in any one day, or to possess more than 45 at any one time. To hunt squirrels before the first day of July, or after the first day of November.

To hunt rabbits with a ferret at any time. To hunt woodcocks before 'the first day of July or after the first day of January. , To hunt with any kind of firearm on Sunday. - * To hunt any kind of game, except water fowl from the tenth day of January to the first day of April. To kill or injure chicken, ringnecked or other pheasant or Hungarian partridge at any time. To hunt within any game preserve organized and stocked by the commissioner of fisheries and game. To kill, trap, possess, sell or destroy the nest of eggs of any wild bird, excepting game birds, English sparrows, blackbirds, crows, hawks and other birds of prey. To hunt on any land without first procuring permission to do so from the owner or tenant thereof. To fish outside your own county or an adjacent one without a license. To sell or offer for sale any pike, pickerel, wall-eyed pike, perch, bluegill, black bass, green bass, rock bass or other species of bass. To take any pickerel or pike less thaA 12 inches long, any rock bass or crappies less than six inehes in length, or any black bass less than 10 Inehes. To take or have in your possession in any one day more than 5( bluegills, sunflsh or crappies, or more than 12 bass. Two or more persons fishing from the same boat may take not more than 20 bass in a day. To fish with any hook and line attached to any bottle or other floating device. To fish with any trotllAe having any hook on it smaller than a 6-0 Kirby. To fish on state breeding grounds set apart by the commissioner of fisheries and game between the 20th day of March and the Ist day of July. * To ship any game fish out of the state, except that a person may take with him not to exceed 24 caught by himself, if he carries their, openly. To kill or stupefy fish with an electric current....

To use Indian cockle, fish berries, or other substances intended to stupefy or poison fish. To take fish with the hands, or with a gaff hook or grappling hook that are not first fastened on a legal hook and line. To use dynamite or other explosives in any water of the state except for mining or mechanical purposes by special' permission of the commissioner of fisheries and gpine. To place ah obstruction in a stream to prevent fish from ascending and descending. To shoot or shoot at any fish. To hate In your possession any part of, or to use at any time, any seine or net of any kind, or any spear or trap, except a minnow

trap, or a minnow seine not more than 12 feet long and four feet deep with meshes not larger than onefourth of an ineh, unless such nets or traps are for use in Lake Michigan, the Ohio river, or the Wabash river where it forms the boundary between Indiana and Illinois, in which case they must be kept within two miles of these waters: Owners of private ponds may have seines for use therein. /' ~ To use a net or trap in the Ohio river, or the Wabash river where it forms the boundary between Indiana and Illinois within 100 yards of the mouth of the stream emptying into it from the Indiana side. To kill or trap mink, raceoon, oppossum, skunk or muskrat from the first day of April to the first day of November unless it be necessary for the protection of a levee, dyke, dam or public drab*To injure or destroy any muskrat house unless it is an obstruction to a public or private ditch. Copies of the laws will be ready for distribution by the commissioner in a few weeks.