2007 Minnesota Code
Chapters 97 - 102 Game and Fish
Chapter 97C Fishing
Section 97C.371 SPEARING FISH.
97C.371 SPEARING FISH.
Subdivision 1. Species allowed. Only rough fish, catfish, lake whitefish, and northern pike
may be taken by spearing.
Subd. 2. Dark houses required for certain species. Catfish, lake whitefish, and northern
pike may be speared only from dark houses.
Subd. 3. Restrictions while spearing from dark house. A person may not take fish by
angling or the use of tip-ups while spearing fish in a dark house, except that a person may take
fish by angling if only one angling line is in use and any fish caught by angling is immediately
released to the water or placed on the ice.
Subd. 4. Open season. The open season for spearing through the ice is December 1 to
the last Sunday in February.
History: 1986 c 386 art 3 s 36; 1Sp1995 c 1 s 41; 2006 c 281 art 2 s 50,51
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