922 LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. 340

The term "Food Fish" includes all species or varieties of
fish whatsoever within the waters of this State not included in
the game or fresh water fishes or bait fish.

73. No person or persons shall take, catch, kill, fish or fish
for any Brook Trout, Brown Trout or Rainbow Trout or any
other species of the Salmon or Trout Family, (except Sque-
teague) within the waters of the State of Maryland above a
point where the tide ebbs and flows between the first day of
July and the first day of April thereafter, both dates inclusive,
nor any Small-mouth or Large-month Bass or any other species
of game or fresh water fishes mentioned in this Act between the
first day of December and the first day of July both dates in-
clusive, and then only by means of rod. hook and line. No per-
son or persons shall take, catch, kill, fish or fish for, any of the
fish or fishes herein named at any time in any of the waters of
this State above a point where the tide ebbs and flows with any
kind of seine or net, stir net, drag net, gig or gig iron, fish bas-
kets or fish pots, eel weirs, brush or fascine nets, or by any
means or contrivance in the nature of a seine or net or trap,
which are in use at present or may be devised hereafter, except
bait fish may be taken by use of a dip or landing net or seine
not over six feet in length nor greater than three feet in depth.

74. No person shall place in any fresh water stream, lake
or pond, without the consent of the owner, or in the waters and
estuaries with the rivers debouching into them, any lime or
other deleterious substance, with the intent thereby to poison or
catch fish, under a penalty of One Hundred Dollars.

75. 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 purpose of breeding and cultivating fish, and
shall give notice thereof either in one or more newspapers of
the County, or by written or printed handbills put up in public
places near said pond, any person who thereafter enter upon
such premises, without the consent of the owner, for the pur-
pose of fishing, or shall catch in said pond or ponds, and take
therefrom any fish, shall be guilty of a trespass, and, in ad-
dition thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof before any Justice of the Peace in this State
shall be fined not less than Twenty-five dollars ($25. 00) nor
more than One Hundred Dollars ($100). for each and every of-
fense, and shall stand committed to the County Jail or Balti-
more City Jail until such fine and costs are paid.