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2015 Mississippi Code
Title 49 - CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY
Chapter 15 - SEAFOOD
Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 49-15-1 - Public policy of the state as to seafood laws
- § 49-15-11 - Assent to Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act
- § 49-15-2 - Standards for fishery conservation and management; fishery management plans
- § 49-15-3 - Definitions
- § 49-15-5 - All seafoods initially the property of the state
- § 49-15-7 - Oyster, clam, cay shells and other shells declared to be property of state
- § 49-15-9 - Rights of riparian owners on Gulf Coast defined
- § 49-15-12 - Transfer of duties to comply with Sections 5-11-1 through 5-11-5; personnel actions; merit promotion system
- § 49-15-13 - Repealed
- § 49-15-15 - Powers and duties of commission
- § 49-15-16 - Limited entry fisheries management program
- § 49-15-17 - Seafood Fund; special accounts; sources of funds
- § 49-15-18 - Distribution of chapter
- § 49-15-19 - Attorney General; designation of deputies or assistants; legal advisors to commission and department.
- § 49-15-21 - Enforcement officers; reserve unit
- § 49-15-22 - Marine patrol officers of Department of Marine Resources permitted to keep side arm upon retirement
- § 49-15-23 - Establishment of dividing line between salt and fresh waters; notice
- § 49-15-25 - Advisory council may be appointed by commission
- § 49-15-27 - Commission granted authority to lease bottoms
- § 49-15-28 - Combination seafood dealer and processor license; fees
- § 49-15-29 - Taxes and license fees to be collected by the commission
- § 49-15-30 - Commission may promulgate regulations for nonresident permits, reciprocity; penalties
- § 49-15-31 - Commission to maintain and operate patrol stations, camps and related facilities; reciprocity
- § 49-15-33 - Repealed
- § 49-15-34 - Boats used in other states; license and fee requirements; transport permits
- § 49-15-35 - Authority to regulate taking and catching of menhaden
- § 49-15-36 - Oyster reefs and bottoms; rotating opening; closing of oyster reefs; special permits for taking oysters during closed season; depuration
- § 49-15-37 - Cultivation of oyster reefs; removal of oysters from restricted areas
- § 49-15-38 - Culling requirements; collection and planting of shells; penalties and fees for failure to deliver shells
- § 49-15-39 - Dredging limits; reefs reserved for tonging; penalties
- § 49-15-40 - Projects to create or establish new oyster beds; molluscan depuration facilities; lease of water bottoms to political subdivisions
- § 49-15-41 - Oysters not to be caught at night
- § 49-15-42 - Tagging, unloading and transporting of oysters
- § 49-15-43 - Packaging of oysters; containers
- § 49-15-44 - Sale or possession of illegal oysters prohibited; penalties
- § 49-15-45 - Certain municipalities may enforce oyster laws
- § 49-15-46 - Licensing and fees for vessels engaged in catching, taking, carrying or transporting oysters; license requirement for captain of commercial oyster vessel; designation of alternate captain for each license; transfer of vessel license; tagging of oysters harvested; recreational oyster permits; shell retention fees; authority to keep certain number of blue crabs for personal consumption
- § 49-15-47 - Prohibition against discharging human waste in Mississippi's marine waters from vessels harvesting or transporting oysters; approved marine sanitation devices required; penalties
- § 49-15-49 - Pass Christian Harbor oyster check station named the Colonel George J. Wright, Sr., building
- §§ 49-15-51 through 49-15-59 - Repealed
- § 49-15-61 - Marine museum
- § 49-15-63 - Penalties
- § 49-15-64 - Shrimping during closed season prohibited; penalties; promulgation of rules and regulations
- § 49-15-641 - Shrimp season: waters closed to shrimping
- § 49-15-642 - Shrimping permitted with cast net
- § 49-15-643 - Shrimping during closed season prohibited; penalties; promulgation of rules and regulations
- § 49-15-644 - Live bait catcher boat and live bait dealer privilege taxes
- § 49-15-645 - Boats used for catching or transporting saltwater shrimp; licensing and fees
- § 49-15-65 - Jurisdiction of courts; appeals
- § 49-15-67 - Appellate procedure
- § 49-15-69 - Exemption of certain minors, senior citizens or disabled persons from licensing requirements
- § 49-15-71 - Commercial taking of redfish prohibited; unlawful to take below minimum size; penalties; redfish management plan
- § 49-15-73 - Use of aircraft to assist in harvesting of redfish; penalties
- § 49-15-74 - Open season for menhaden
- § 49-15-75 - Catch limit based on weight limitations as to certain fish
- § 49-15-76 - Prohibition of sale of game fish; exceptions; punishment
- § 49-15-77 - Prohibition against catching saltwater fish by use of certain nets, seines or traps in certain areas of the state; punishment
- § 49-15-78 - Prohibition against using gill net, trammel net, entanglement net, or like contrivance within a certain distance of the shoreline; punishment
- § 49-15-79 - Prohibition of use of purse seine offshore from Hancock or Harrison Counties; promulgation of regulations governing use of gill nets and trammel nets in Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson Counties; punishment
- § 49-15-80 - Vessels used to catch or transport fish; licensing and fees; nonresident reciprocity
- § 49-15-81 - Catching or transporting saltwater minnows for sale; license requirements; fees; tagging of minnow traps to mark ownership; exemptions
- § 49-15-83 - Interpretation and application of Sections 49-15-71 through 49-15-81
- § 49-15-84 - Requirements for the taking of crabs; crab traps
- § 49-15-841 - Closed season for use of crab traps; removal of abandoned traps
- § 49-15-85 - Repealed
- § 49-15-86 - Commercial and recreational crabbing licenses
- § 49-15-87 - "Peeler crab" and "soft-shell crab" defined
- § 49-15-89 - Unlawful to catch, destroy, confine, hold or have in possession certain crabs
- § 49-15-91 - Regulatory authority for maximum number of crab pots allowable per licensee
- § 49-15-92 - Penalties for theft of crab traps or crabs
- § 49-15-93 - Penalties
- § 49-15-94 - Use of purse seine to catch mullet during roe mullet season; penalties
- § 49-15-95 - Use of brill and cast nets
- § 49-15-96 - Keeping of certain fish caught in shrimp nets for personal consumption
- § 49-15-97 - Requirement that commercial fishing vessels use approved lights; penalties
- § 49-15-98 - Repealed
- § 49-15-99 - Repealed
- § 49-15-100 - Usage of gill or trammel nets in certain marine waters; penalties
- § 49-15-1001 - Forfeiture of vessels, motors and equipment used in violation of Section 49-15-100
- § 49-15-1003 - Prima facie evidence of use of prohibited equipment
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