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Show i Fish and Game News Notes ... The attention of the Fish and ! Game Department has been called to the misuse of the hunting and fishing combination stamp in the tagging- of deer, according to department de-partment spokesmen. Department Depart-ment field men have found many instances where said hunting and fishing stamp or license has been I attached with the deer tag to the j animal killed. I Holders of a combination hunt- ing and fishing license stamp will j note that on the deer tag portion por-tion is printed "Tag must be de-I de-I tached at line of perforation and placed on the carcass of the animal ani-mal at the time of kill." The stamp portion of the combination com-bination license should remain i stamped to tho permanent visible J license number card at the time the deer tag is removed for the tagging of the animal killed. Any deer hunter who possessed a combination hunting and fishing stamp with attached deer tag, and who used said tag without detaching de-taching his license portion or the stamp itself, will be in violation of the Law or without a license to hunt ducks or pheasants unless he recovers said hunting and fishing stamp license from the tag as he used it. The season will surge in hunting J law violations, as reflected in ar-! ar-! rest reports coming to the Fish ; and Game Department offices, ac-I ac-I cording to department spokesmen. Especially serious Is the killing of elk during the present deer season in several areas where both the deer and elk are to be found. Deer hunters are again urged to know their target before they shoot. There is no reasonable ex cuse for the shooting of elk as deer. Any sportsman hunting in an area where both are to be found should be doubly cautious as to what he fires upon. With few exceptions, sportsmen are tagging their deer this year, according to the reports coming in. However, all sportsmen are reminded that the tagging of their kill is a must; the tag should be fastened to the hock of the animal ani-mal and accompany . the carcass from the hunting field to its place of destination. The Federal Migratory Waterfowl Water-fowl stamp is not a license to hunt for ducks and geese. ' Floyd Thompson, Federal warden, war-den, states that many arrests have been made this season where the duck hunter had a Federal stamp but no State bird hunting license. In every case, boys in their teens were the offenders. Under the new license law effective ef-fective this year, a junior must reach 14 years of age before he can hunt game of any kind. At age 14, said junior may purchase a game bird license. Until age 16, he may then hunt under the supervision of someone age 21 or older, for any game bird during the legally opened season. At ages 14 and 15, said junior need not have a Federal stamp on his State bird license to hunt for ducks or geese. In other words, anyone 16 years or older, who hunts migratory waterfowl, must have both proper State license and Federal duck stamp. A Junior 14 or 15 years of age may hunt migratory waterfowl wa-terfowl without a Federal stamp but must have a State game bird license. |