Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1916 — Change In Fish Law Will Be Aske.d [ARTICLE]

Change In Fish Law Will Be Aske.d

The next Indiana legislature will be asked by Eugene Shinetnan, fish and game commissioner, to enact a law which provides for tibe licensing of persons to fish in the water® of any stream in tihe State. The present law does not require a license for one who fishes in his awn or adjoining county. It is impossible to enforce tihe law as it is at present, he said. A warden will approach a man fishing and a A him to display his license. The fisherman will answer that he lives in the adjoining county. It is impossible for the warden to investigate 'very such case, and as a result the man fishes without license. If a uniform license fee of $1 were established for fishing, Shi reman estimates that the revenue of his office would be doubled, enabling him to start new hatcheries. Then if a closed season were established, he said, Indiana, Streams soon would become noted for fine fishing.