State Fish Commissioner J.A. Nelson of Morehead City and Inspector J.H. Stone were in Kinston Friday conferring with a large number of persons interested in fishing in Neuse River by different methods. Many of the people interested had been unaware of the law regulating fishing in the Neuse and, under the circumstances, the fish commissioner decided that he would recommend to his department that no enforcement of the laws so regulating the fishing above New Bern be made until May 1, 1923, provided that the stationary nets of every description should be limited to extending from the banks to not more than one-third of the distance across the river. After May 1, 1922, fishing in Neuse River will be limited to hooks and lines only.
The commissioner recommended to those interested in fishing in Lenoir County that they go before the Fish Commission on the second Tuesday in July, at its regular annual meeting to be held at Morehead City, and make known their wishes, to the end that the commission under its legal powers might regulate the fishing above New Bern in Neuse River “in some fair and just manner.” If the commission does not adopt laws regulating such fishing at this meeting, the laws for the next season will be rigidly enforced, he said.
From the front page of the Kinston Daily Free Press, Friday, April 13, 1923
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