1448 ARTICLE 39.

An. Code, sec. 78. 1904, sec. 78. 1902, ch. 358, sec. 78A. 1906, ch. 161. 1924, ch. 340, sec. 78.

86. No person shall catch or in any manner take or kill in any waters
of this State above a point where the tide ebbs and flows, any of the game
or fresh water fishes herein named, and no person or persons shall catch,
take or kill or have in possession any brown trout, brook trout or rainbow
trout or any other species of the. salmon and trout family (except Sque-
teague) of any size less than six inches nor any large or small mouth bass
less than nine inches or any pike or pickerel less than fourteen inches,
measuring in case of each fish from the tip of the nose to the end of the
caudal fin or tail, in any manner whatsoever, nor at any time save only
with rod, line and hook or hooks baited with natural bait, or tied with
artificial fly or with a spoon or spinner, each equipped with a hook, or
hooks.

An. Code, sec. 79. 1904, sec. 79. 1902, ch. 358, sec. 78B. 1906, ch. 161. 1910, ch. 255 (p. 136).

1922, ch. 316, sec. 79.

87. No person shall catch or in any manner take or kill in the said
waters thereof at any time white or yellow perch of any size less than
seven inches in length, or any pike less than fourteen inches in length,
or any rock, otherwise known as striped bass, less than ten inches in
length, or any tailor less than eight inches in length, or cat fish under
seven inches, or any sturgeon weighing less than twenty pounds or any
rock weighing over twenty pounds, in spawning season of April, May and
June, measuring, in case of fish from the tip of the nose to the end of the
caudal fin or tail, excepting haul seines during the time between April
first and June twelfth.

1922, ch. 336.

88. All local and general laws of this State fixing or regulating mini-
mum or maximum sizes of oysters, fish or crabs, respectively, shall apply
whether the same be caught inside the State of Maryland or outside of
this State and that the fines and penalties prescribed for violation of said
laws respectively shall apply to the same extent.1

An. Code, sec. 80. 1904, sec. 80. 1902, ch. 358, sec. 78D. 1906, ch. 161. 1924, ch. 340, sec. 80.

89. No person shall, in this State, in any manner or at any time so
obstruct any stream above where the tide ebbs and flows, so that fish shall
not have free access up and down said stream.

An. Code, sec. 81. 1904, sec. 81. 1902, ch. 358, sec. 78E. 1906, ch. 161. 1914, ch. 366.

1924, ch. 340, sec. 81.

90. Every owner of a dam or dams upon any of the waters of this
State is hereby required to make and keep in repair, or cause to be made
and kept in repair, and placed upon said dam or dams at least one fish
ladder of such a character as to enable fish to have a free course up and.
down said waters at all times.

1 Same as sec. 13 of. art. 72