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2015 Delaware Code
Title 7 - Conservation
CHAPTER 9. FINFISHING IN TIDAL WATERS
- § 901 Purpose of chapter; policy of State; interstate fishery management plan; advisory committee.
- § 902 Application of chapter.
- § 903 Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control; authority; permits; regulations.
- § 904 Advisory Council on Tidal Finfisheries; establishment; organization; authority.
- § 905 Procedures for promulgation of regulations; public hearing notice; submission to Council; approval.
- § 906 Definitions.
- § 907 Equipment and methods used for fishing for game fish.
- § 908 Equipment and methods used for fishing for bait fish.
- § 909 Fishing for bait fish in tidal waters.
- § 910 Types of fishing equipment and methods used for fishing for food fish.
- § 911 Scientific permit; issuance; information; expiration; report; equipment marking and identification requirements.
- § 912 Sale, trade and/or barter of game fish.
- § 913 Sale, trade and/or barter of food fish.
- § 914 Commercial food fishing license; requirements and fees.
- § 915 Food fishing equipment permit; requirements, fees and restrictions.
- § 916 Finfisheries Development Fund.
- § 917 Areas restricted for using certain fishing equipment.
- § 918 Interfering with fishing equipment.
- § 919 Menhaden fishing; penalties.
- § 920 Marking requirement for fishing equipment; exception for minnow traps; removal of stakes, anchors and lines.
- § 921 Identification requirements for equipment.
- § 922 Length restrictions on certain nets.
- § 923 Gill nets; restrictions on use; seasons.
- § 924 Unattended fishing equipment.
- § 925 Fishing with explosives, chemicals, poisons and other devices; exception for Department and agents.
- § 926 Extracting oil or making fertilizer from food and game fish; penalty.
- § 927 Fishing with trawl nets, purse seines, run around gill nets; penalty; exceptions.
- § 928 Interstate transfer of finfish.
- § 928A Trade in shark fins; penalty.
- § 929 Size limits on finfish; exceptions [Subject to the provisions of 64 Del. Laws, c. 251, § 4].
- § 930 Striped bass spawning areas.
- § 931 Theft and attempted theft of fishing equipment or finfish from fishing equipment.
- § 932 Removal and inspection of fishing equipment by authorized personnel; confiscation and sale of illegally used equipment.
- § 933 Search of persons, boats, vessels and commercial facilities.
- § 934 Seizure and forfeiture of finfish.
- § 935 Sale of seized finfish.
- § 936 Enforcement; penalties; seizure and forfeiture of illegally used property; injunctions; false statements.
- § 937 Suspension or refusal to issue commercial finfishing license.
- § 938 Creel limits on finfish; exceptions.
- § 939 Fishing seasons; exception.
- § 940 Food fish dealer permits.
- § 941 Headboat/charter boat fishing permits; reporting requirements.
- § 942 Control of invasive finfish species.
- § 943 Tagging striped bass.
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