Title 23, Title 23: FISH AND GAME, WILD BIRDS AND ANIMALS

23:9-12. Catching food fish with lines; season for game fish; fine It shall be lawful to catch food fish with rods and lines and hand lines, and trolling lines as described in section 23:9-6 of this Title, at any time of the year in the Delaware river above or below Trenton falls…

23:9-120. Arrest and punishment of violations on Hudson river between New Jersey and New York If and when the State of New York shall enact a similar law for the arrest and punishment of violations of the game or fish laws of this or the State of New York, committed or attempted …

23:9-121. Arrest and punishment of violations on Delaware river between New Jersey and Pennsylvania If and when the State of Pennsylvania shall enact a similar law for the arrest and punishment of violations of the game or fish laws of this State or the State of Pennsylvania, com…

23:9-126. Holders of New York fishing licenses; fishing in New Jersey part of Greenwood lake Nothing contained in Title 23 of the Revised Statutes, to which this act is a supplement, relating to the necessity of procuring from the State of New Jersey a license to fish in the wate…

23:9-13. Bag limit on game fish No person shall take, catch, kill, or have in possession in any 1 day more than such number in all of black and Oswego bass, rock bass, calico bass and crappie, perch or wall-eyed pike, pickerel or trout as shall be prescribed in the State Fish and…

23:9-14. Use of eelpots and fyke nets; fine; forfeiture of appliances No person shall use eelpots and fyke nets, each without wings, in the Delaware river, above or below Trenton falls, during any period which shall be prescribed in the State Fish and Game Code, or if no such per…

23:9-15. Use of parallel nets prohibited; fine; forfeiture of appliances No person shall use a parallel net, otherwise a net set approximately parallel with the shore in the Delaware river below Trenton falls and at low-water mark, between June first and August thirty-first in ea…

23:9-16. Size of certain fish; fine No person shall catch and take or attempt to catch and take from the Delaware river above or below Trenton falls, in any manner whatsoever, any of the fish hereinafter described of greater weight or less length than shall be prescribed in the S…

23:9-17. Interference with or injury to nets; fine No person shall, by boat, anchor, dredge, or otherwise, in the Delaware river above or below Trenton falls, willfully and without reasonable cause, interfere with, break, damage or destroy any drifting gill net or hauling seine o…

23:9-19. Purchase, sale or possession of fish except during lawful period prohibited; fine No person shall purchase, sell or offer for sale, or have in possession any fresh dead game fish or food fish, except during the lawful period for catching the same and the space of six day…

23:9-20. Concurrent jurisdiction of states; procedure for violations The commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the state of New Jersey shall have concurrent jurisdiction over all offenses and violations of this article, committed or attempted to be committed, by any person or persons …

23:9-21. Interference with officers; fine Any person or persons who shall by threat, menace or force, or in any manner attempt to deter or prevent any fish warden or other person authorized to make arrests for violation of the fish laws in either state, from enforcing or carrying…

23:9-3. Waters affected by article The provisions of this article shall affect and apply only to the propagation, catching, taking and protection and destruction of fish in the waters of the Delaware river above and below Trenton falls, lying between the commonwealth of Pennsylva…

23:9-4. Common rights to fish The inhabitants of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the state of New Jersey shall have and enjoy a common right of fishery throughout, in and over the waters of the Delaware river above and below Trenton falls, between low-water mark on each s…

23:9-5. Game, bait and food fish defined As used in this article: "Game fish" means black bass or small-mouth bass; large-mouth bass, otherwise called Oswego or yellow bass; strawberry or calico bass; rock bass, otherwise known as redeye or goggle-eye; white bass; crappie; pike p…

23:9-6. Manner and means of fishing for game fish; fine No person shall catch or fish for any game fish or any sunfish or any white or yellow perch in any part of the Delaware river above or below Trenton falls with any device or by any means or method whatsoever, except with suc…

23:9-7. Manner and means of fishing for bait fish; fine No person shall fish for bait fish in the Delaware river above or below Trenton falls except with such devices as shall be prescribed in the State Fish and Game Code, or if none are so prescribed then except with the followi…

23:9-8. Manner and means of fishing for food fish; fine No person shall fish for food fish in the Delaware river below Trenton falls with any device, method or means, except as shall be prescribed in the State Fish and Game Code, or if none are so prescribed then excepting by the…

23:9-9. Taking sturgeon; taking other food fish with seine or gill net; fine; forfeiture of appliances No person shall catch and take or attempt to catch and take sturgeon from the Delaware river above or below Trenton falls, with any device excepting a seine or gill net, the mes…