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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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FISH AND FISHERIES 1669

defined in Section 1 of this Article, in any other manner or upon any
other conditions, than are herein provided.

It shall be lawful to fish with rod, hook and line, not to exceed two in
number when in the immediate control of the angler.

It shall be lawful to use a slat basket, commonly known as Chesapeake
Bay eel pot, for the purpose of catching eels.

It shall be lawful, during the open season, for any person who has
secured a resident angler's license to fish by the use of dip net in the
waters of Susquehanna River between Hog Back Shoals and the mouth
of Deer Creek.

It shall be lawful for any person who has secured a resident angler's
license, to catch suckers, catfish, carp, eels and gudgeon by the use of dip
net of not less than one and one-fourth inch mesh between February 15th
and April 15th, both dates inclusive, of each year, in the waters of Poto-
mac River; in the waters of Washington County; in; the waters of
Monocacy River in Frederick and Carroll Counties and in Middle Creek
for a distance of one-fourth of a mile from where it empties into Potomac
River near Lander, Frederick County, and in the mouth of the waters of
any stream (for a distance not to exceed fifty yards) which empties into
the Monoqacy River in Frederick County; and also in the waters of Mont-
gomery County.

It shall be lawful in the waters of Frederick County and in the waters
of Montgomery County for any person who has secured a resident angler's
license to use bush bobs or bank poles (not exceeding a total of 25 in all)
and not exceeding one hook to a pole or bob and when not baited with scale
bait or live bait to catch suckers, catfish, carp, eels and gudgeon.

It shall be lawful in the waters of Potomac River in Montgomery
County for any person who has secured a resident angler's license to catch
shad by use of dip net between the first day of April and the tenth day
of June, both dates inclusive.

It shall be lawful for any person to take, catch or have in possession in
any one day ten each of trout or bass of any species. Any bass or trout
caught and returned to the waters shall be considered for the purpose
of this section as having been either taken, caught, or had in possession.

If any person is found in or about any waters designated in this section
with a gig or gig iron and a light, or with nets or seines, fish pots or other
fishing rigs other than permitted in this section, it shall be deemed prima
facie evidence that same was in possession for the purpose of violating
this section.

The catching, however, of bait fish by use of a dip or landing net or
seine not over six feet in length nor greater than three feet in depth, shall
not be considered as a violation of this section.1

1929, ch. 471, sec. 65.

82. (Trespass Upon Land to Fish in Privately Owned Ponds Pro-
hibited—Proviso—Penalty.) Whenever any person who owns, controls
or erects an artificial pond upon his own land, or land of which he is in legal
possession, shall put therein any fish or the eggs or spawn of fish for the pur-
pose of breeding and cultivating fish, and shall give notice thereof either
in one or more newspapers of the county, or by written or printed hand-
bills put up in public places near said pond, any person who thereafter

1 Sec. 3 of ch. 188 of acts of 1933 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.


 

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