Farris v. Ark. State Game & Fish Comm.

Nabors Shaw, Special Associate Justice.

The question here presented is the power of appellee, Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission, to prohibit the sale of game fish raised by appellants in their vocation of fish farming in their privately owned reservoirs.

Appellants are two, of many persons, who have become engaged in the vocation of raising dish on their privately owned lands to be marketed for profit. In order to profitably raise so called, “rough fish,” it is a recognized practice in fish farming to raise game fish in reservoirs to feed upon and reduce the number of “rough fish” so that…