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ARTICLE 39.

FISH AND FISHERIES.

	PART 1. General Provisions. 1. Definitions. 2. Application of general and local laws. 3. Duties of conservation commis- sioner 4. Duties of officers of conservation department 4A-4C Survey of Youghiogheny River and stocking with fish 5 Arrest upon information. 6. Warrant for unknown offender. 7 Procedure upon seizure. 8 Condemnation and sale. 9 Disposition of fines and proceeds of property sold. 10 Jurisdiction of justices or court. 11 Appeal from Judgments of Justices of the peace. 12 Obstruction to passage of fish. 13 Fish ladders. 14. Pollution prohibited; penalty. 15. Dynamiting and poisoning streams; penalty. 16 Threshing streams 17 Removal of fish without permis- sion, penalty. 18. Anchored boats 19. Vessels sailing through seines. 20. Obstruction to fishery. 21 Riparian rights. 22 Penalties. 23 Penalty for violating sec. 13.	PART 2. Tidal Waters. 24 Who may fish. 25. Method of fishing. 26 Regulation of nets and seines. 27. Purse or buck nets. Further Regulations in County Waters. 28 Anne Arundel County. 29 Baltimore County. 30 Caroline County. 31. Cecil County. 32. Charles County. 32A Charles and St Mary's Counties. 33. Dorchester County. 34. Garrett County. 35 Harford County. 36 Kent County 37 Queen Anne's County. 38 St Mary's County. 39 Somerset County. 40. Talbot County. 41 Wicomico County 42. Worcester County Nets and Seines. 43. Sizes of mesh 44 Removal of stakes and nets 45. Emptying seines 46 Chesapeake Bay. 47 Head of bay. 47A Anchored gill nets 48 Patuxent River. 49 Severn River 50. Choptank River. Sizes of Commercial Fish. 51 Sizes of fish.

The following decisions refer to the sections printed in dark type of art 39 as it
stood prior to the act of 1929, ch 471

19. This section referred to in discussing meaning of term "citizen"—see notes
to art. 25, sec. 143 Fitzwater v Hydro-Elec. Corp, 149 Md 466

68. This section referred to in construing local law for Dorchester County giv-
ing riparian owners certain fishing rights, law constitutional. Dean 1. Slacum, 149
Md 581

89. Compact of 1785 does not require concurrence of Virginia to render act of
1924, ch 340 effective. Equity will not grant injunction to prevent violation of
statute Middlekauff v Le Compte, 149 Md 622.