Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1907 — Stream Dammers to Be Prosecuted [ARTICLE]

Stream Dammers to Be Prosecuted

E. E. Eirle, chief depnty fish and game commissioner, is looking after the cases of those who have constructed dams across waterways of the state without making any provision for the fish getting from one side of the dam to the other. It is a violation of the law to construct a dam more than four feet high without providing a fish ladder. ‘ ‘ There are a number of such dams in the state.” said Mr. Earle, “and I propose to see that changes are made so as to make them comply with the law and it is likely that prosecn tions will be made. The penalty for violation of the law is a fine of from $25 to flOO.” Mr. Earle says that 200 pheasants will be released in Indiana next spring. These pheasants are being cared for nnw at various points in the state by Z. T. Sweeney, state fish and game comissioner. The birds will be released in different parts of the state, with a view to populating th a forests.