2005 Minnesota Statutes - 97C.385 — Commissioner\'s authority to regulate winter fishing.

     97C.385 Commissioner's authority to regulate winter 
  fishing. 


    Subdivision 1.    Summer angling season to be closed in 
 same proportion.  If the commissioner closes the statutory 
 open season for the spearing of a game fish species in any 
 waters, the commissioner must, in the same rule, close the 
 following statutory open season for angling for the same species 
 in the waters in the same proportion.  


    Subd. 2.    Summer angling limits must be same as 
 spearing.  If the commissioner reduces the limit of a species 
 of game fish taken by spearing in any waters under section 
 97A.045, subdivision 2, the commissioner must reduce the limit 
 for taking of the species by angling in the waters during the 
 following open season for angling.  


    Subd. 3.    Closing lakes and streams in a county.  The 
 commissioner may not close the open season for taking game fish 
 through the ice on more than 50 percent of the named lakes or 
 streams of a county under section 97A.045, subdivision 2.  


    HIST: 1986 c 386 art 3 s 39; 1991 c 259 s 23