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Exploding Dynamite to Catch Fish. 95. Using dynamite or fish pot. 96. Unlawful to use explosives to catch, flsh in Chesapeake bay. 97. Penalty. 98. Disposition of fines collected. Commissioners of Fisheries. 99. Two to be appointed biennially by governor. 100. To Inspect waters of State; report to governor. 101. Further duties of . 102. To use all means to destroy eels; one-fourth of appropriation to be spent in Wicomico county. 103. To maintain eel pots. 104. Account to he kept of eels de- stroyed. 105. To sell all eels caught; proceeds, how to be applied. 106. Removal of commissioners for re- fusal to carry out sections 102- 106. 107. To make annual report to gov- ernor of their work. 108. Annual salary of. 109. Annual appropriation for carrying out the provisions of aectlona 100, 101 and 107. Commissioners to make annual reports.

Chesapeake Bay. 110. License required for catching fish in Chesapeake bay below Pool's Island. 111. Cost of license. Clerk's fee for collecting license. License to be credited to the "oyster fund." 112. Oath of applicant for license. 113. Comptroller to have blank licenses printed. 114. Limits of setting fyke nets and other like contrivances; penalty ; appeal. 115. Penalties for violating sections 110 to 118. 116. State fishery force to see that the provisions of sections 110 to 119 are carried out. 117. Application of fines. 118. Where pound nets and stake nets shall be prohibited; penalties. 119. Sheriff and constables to make ar- rests. 120. Sections 110 to 119 not to apply to "hook and line." 121. Limits defining head waters of Chesapeake bay.

Head of the Bay.

1904, art. 39, sec. 1. 1888, art. 39, sec. 1. 1860, art. 41, sec. 1. 1842, ch. 67.

1. No person except resident citizens of this State shall fix, set or
stake out any sort of gill nets, either stationary or floating, or any device
whatever for the taking of herring and shad in the Chesapeake bay at
any time between the first of March and the first of June in each year;
and any person so offending shall forfeit the vessel and tackle used in
such fishing and all the nets, apparatus and devices for taking fish and
also pay a fine of fifty dollars for each offense.*

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art. 39, sec. 2. 1860, art. 41, sec. 2. 1854, ch. 310.
1868, ch. 421. 1876, ch. 252. 1878, ch. 276. 1880, ch. 260.

2. No person shall, from the tenth day of June to the first day of
October in each year, fish with hauling seine or drag-net of any kind
within the Chesapeake bay or any of its tributaries lying northward of

*As to the prohibition of fishing on the Susquehanna Flats during the ducking
season, see art. 99, sec. 16.