Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1907 — Sweeney Wants Closed Fish Season. [ARTICLE]

Sweeney Wants Closed Fish Season.

Dr. Z. T. Sweeney, state commissioner of fish and game, says for a long time he has favored a closed season for fish. He says that the laws of Indiana protect game, but do not provide a protection for the finny tribe, and that the fisherman who catches a string of six or seven when the fish are spawning destroys saveral thousand fish. Sweeney has little hope ot ever getting a bill thru the legislature which will provide for a closed season for fish. He has had two bills practically passed only to be defeated in the eleventh hour by owners of summer resorts in the state and by people who want to fish. Sweeney receives papers from all parts of the state indorsing his work ahd hears from people who explain that they now understand for what he has been striving and what it means to enforce the game laws.