2005 Minnesota Statutes - 97C.801 — Taking rough fish on Mississippi River.

     97C.801 Taking rough fish on Mississippi River. 


    Subdivision 1. Repealed, 1997 c 216 s 90; 1997 c 226 s 
 51 


    Subd. 2.    Commercial fish netting on Mississippi River. 
  (a) A license is required to commercially take rough fish 
 with seines in the Mississippi River from the St. Croix River 
 junction to St. Anthony Falls.  


    (b) A person may take rough fish in the Mississippi River, 
 from the St. Croix River junction to St. Anthony Falls, only 
 with the following equipment and methods: 


    (1) operations shall be conducted only in the flowing 
 waters of the river and in tributary backwaters prescribed by 
 the commissioner; 


    (2) seines may be used only as prescribed by this section 
 and rules adopted by the commissioner; 


    (3) seines must be hauled to a landing immediately after 
 being placed; 


    (4) two seines may not be joined together in the water; and 


    (5) a seine may not be landed between sunset and sunrise. 


    HIST: 1986 c 386 art 3 s 60; 1997 c 216 s 90; 1997 c 226 s 41