Michigan Game Laws

Sec. 17. It shall not be lawful hereafter at any time to kilt or destroy or attempt to kill or destroy, any fish in any of the waters of the State of Michigan by the use or aid of dynamite, herculean or giant powder, or any otber explosive substance or combination of substances, or by the use of Indian cockle or other substance or device, which has a tendecy to stupify the fish. TO CATCII KIS II WITH SPEARS. Sec. 18. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take, catch or kill, or attempt to take catch or kill, any fish by the use of any ktnd of soear during the mouths of March, April, May and June of each year in any of the waters of the state, except lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, St. Clair, and Erie and in Saginaw bay; Provided, however, that the spearing or catching by dip net of mullet, grass-pike, red-side and suckers shall not be unlawful. MUST NOT USE XETS. Sec. 27. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to place a weir dam, fish weir, weir net orother_device across any race, stream, lake or river of this state, in such ajnanner as to obstruct the free passage of fish up and down the same ; and any person violating this section shall, in addition to the penalty provided for ift section fourteen of this act, be liable to the payment of two dollars per day for every day that he shall continue such violation after having been duly notified by an elector of the township wherein such fish weir or weir net may be, feeling himself aggriev&J thereby, to remove the same, said penalty or penalties to be recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction in the township or county where sueh offense shall have been committed ,' and in default of payment thereof, shall be confined in the county jail until such fine and costs shall be paid ; but such confinement shall not exceed thirty days. TO KEEP OUR STREAMS CLEAX. Sec. 30. It shall be unlawful for all persons to put into any of the waters of this State, where fish are taken, any offal, blood, putrid brine, putrid fish or filth of any description ; and any person so offending shall be fined in any sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court. XOT TO KILL FISH BY FIRE-ARMS, ETC. Sec. 37. It shall not be lawful for any person to take, catch or kill, or attempt to take, cacch or kill, any fish in any of the inhuul lakes and streama in this State with any kind of spear or grip hook, or by the use of any jacks or artificial liglit oí any kind, or by the use of set lines, or nigh't Iines within the meaning of this act, shall be deemto be a coutinuous line anchored at either end, to which shorter lines with hooks are attached, or any kind of net or any kind of fire-arms or explosives, or other device except the hook and line. WIIENTO KILL W00DC0CK. Sec. 194. No person or persous shall kill or destroy any woodcock save only from the fifteenth day of August to the fifteenth day of December in each year. PARTRIDGES ASD QUAILS. Sec. 197. No person or persons shall kill, capture or destroy, or aüeinpt to kill, capture or destroy, auy ruflied grouse, sometimes called partridge, or pheasant, except from the first day of November to the fifteenth day of December, inclusive, in each year; or any colin or quail, sometimes called Virginia partridge, save only from the first lav of November to the fifteenth day of December, inclusive, in each year. TO PROTECT OTHER B1RDS. Sx 204. Any person who shall at any time, within this State, kill any robin, nighthawk, whippoorwill, iinch, thrush, lark, swallow, yellow bird, blue bird, brown thrasher, ween, martin, oriole, woodpecker, bobolink pr any song bird, or rob the nests of such birds, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 011 conviction thereof, shall be fined live dollars for each bird so killed and for each nest so robbed, or confined in the county jail lor ten days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.