Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1902 — TO PROTECT STATE’S FISH. [ARTICLE]

TO PROTECT STATE’S FISH.

Attorney-General Taylor has notified Z. T. Sweeney, state fish and game commissioner, that he has the authority by means of seine to destroy the mud turtles, garfish and possibly carp, that inhabit the lakes and rivers of the state. He has been prohibited from doing this heretofore by the law against the use of seines, but Attorney-General Taylor claims that he will be permitted to use this means by the law making it the duty of the fish commissioners to preserve the fish in the lakes and streams. It is the intention of the commission to authorize the seining of the lakes as soon as possible and a deputy will at all times be present to see that good fish are put back into the water. The Monon Railway company has already petitioned that they be permitted to seine Cedar Lake, in the northern part of the state, in order to rid that lake of mud turtles. A seine 1,000 feet long and deep enough to reach the bottom will be used.—lndianapolis Sentinel.