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2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 29 - Wild animals and plants.
SUBCHAPTER I
DEFINITIONS SUBCHAPTER II
GENERAL FISH AND GAME REGULATION
HUNTING, TRAPPING AND FISHING APPROVALS
HUNTING AND TRAPPING REGULATION
FISHING REGULATION
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
APPROVAL FEES AND EFFECTIVE PERIODS
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
FISH AND GAME PROPAGATION AND STOCKING
CAPTIVE ANIMALS SUBCHAPTER XII
WILDLIFE DAMAGE
ENFORCEMENT
DEFINITIONS SUBCHAPTER II
GENERAL FISH AND GAME REGULATION
- 29.011 - Title to wild animals.
- 29.014 - Rule-making for this chapter.
- 29.016 - Department authority; deer hunting seasons and license restrictions.
- 29.020 - Deer management assistance program.
- 29.024 - Approvals; forms; issuing agents.
- 29.03 - Wildlife violator compact.
- 29.035 - Report of department.
- 29.036 - Sporting heritage council.
- 29.037 - Fish and wildlife restoration.
- 29.038 - Local regulation of wild animals.
- 29.039 - Nongame species.
- 29.040 - Deer management report rules.
- 29.041 - Department to regulate hunting and fishing in interstate waters.
- 29.042 - Agreements to retire licenses.
- 29.043 - Interstate comity.
- 29.045 - Interstate license privileges.
- 29.047 - Interstate transportation of game.
- 29.053 - Specific open and closed seasons.
- 29.055 - Wild animals; possession in closed season or in excess of bag limit.
- 29.057 - Wild animals; possession in open season.
- 29.059 - Reports of hunters.
- 29.063 - Management of chronic wasting disease.
- 29.071 - Wildlife on Indian reservations protected.
- 29.075 - Hunting, trapping and fishing by American Indians.
- 29.079 - Deer hunting by practitioners of Ho-Chunk religion.
- 29.083 - Interference with hunting, fishing or trapping.
- 29.084 - Incentives for recruitment.
- 29.088 - Use of poison and explosives; pole traps.
- 29.089 - Hunting, fishing, and trapping on land in state parks and state fish hatcheries.
- 29.091 - Hunting or trapping in wildlife refuge.
- 29.095 - Hunting on land in a school forest.
HUNTING, TRAPPING AND FISHING APPROVALS
- 29.161 - Resident small game hunting license.
- 29.164 - Wild turkey hunting approvals.
- 29.171 - Resident archer hunting license.
- 29.172 - Resident crossbow hunting license.
- 29.173 - Resident deer hunting license.
- 29.177 - Special deer hunting permits.
- 29.179 - Transfer of approvals to minors and disabled persons.
- 29.180 - Transfers of approvals upon death.
- 29.181 - Bonus deer hunting permits.
- 29.182 - Elk hunting licenses.
- 29.183 - Deferral of certain approvals.
- 29.184 - Bear licenses.
- 29.185 - Wolf harvesting licenses.
- 29.191 - Hunting stamps.
- 29.192 - Regulation of takings of certain wild animals.
- 29.193 - Approvals for disabled persons.
- 29.194 - Resident approvals for certain nonresidents and members of the armed forces.
- 29.1945 - Approvals for veterans and military members.
- 29.195 - Disabled veterans, Great Lakes Naval Hospital.
- 29.197 - Waivers of certain approvals.
- 29.199 - Authorizations for certain patients and institutionalized persons to fish.
- 29.201 - Waiver of fishing license requirement for groups of disabled persons.
- 29.204 - Nonresident annual small game hunting license.
- 29.207 - Nonresident 5-day small game hunting license.
- 29.211 - Nonresident deer hunting license.
- 29.213 - Nonresident fur-bearing animal hunting license.
- 29.216 - Nonresident archer hunting license.
- 29.217 - Nonresident crossbow hunting license.
- 29.219 - Resident fishing licenses.
- 29.228 - Nonresident fishing licenses.
- 29.2285 - Fishing stamps and tags.
- 29.229 - Fishing approvals issued by the Lac du Flambeau band.
- 29.2295 - Department approvals issued on the Lac du Flambeau reservation.
- 29.2297 - Federal approvals for hunting, trapping, and fishing.
- 29.231 - Sports licenses.
- 29.235 - Conservation patron license.
- 29.236 - Annual disabled veteran recreation card.
- 29.237 - Sturgeon spearing license.
- 29.241 - Trapping license.
HUNTING AND TRAPPING REGULATION
- 29.301 - General restrictions on hunting.
- 29.304 - Restrictions on hunting and use of firearms by persons under 16 years of age.
- 29.307 - Hunting with aid of aircraft prohibited.
- 29.311 - Shotshell restrictions.
- 29.312 - Rules regulating the sighting of a firearm.
- 29.314 - Shining animals.
- 29.317 - Taking homing pigeons.
- 29.319 - Falconry regulation.
- 29.322 - Taking certain wounded animals.
- 29.324 - Group deer hunting.
- 29.327 - Regulation of waterfowl blinds.
- 29.331 - Trapping regulation.
- 29.334 - Hunting and trapping; treatment of wild animals.
- 29.335 - Feeding wild animals for nonhunting purposes.
- 29.336 - Feeding deer.
- 29.337 - Hunting and trapping by landowners and occupants.
- 29.341 - Duties on accidental shooting.
- 29.345 - Hunting, fishing or trapping accident; failure to report.
- 29.346 - Registration information.
- 29.347 - Possession of deer and elk; heads and skins.
- 29.349 - Animals killed by motor vehicles.
- 29.351 - Skins of fur-bearing animals.
- 29.354 - Possession of game birds and animals.
- 29.357 - Transportation; general provisions.
- 29.361 - Transportation of deer or elk.
- 29.364 - Transportation of game birds.
FISHING REGULATION
- 29.401 - Possession of fishing equipment.
- 29.403 - Fishing tournaments.
- 29.404 - Fishing shanties on ice, regulation.
- 29.405 - Fishing with bow and arrow or crossbow.
- 29.406 - Fishing by hand.
- 29.407 - Transportation of fish.
- 29.411 - Cooperation during a fish census.
- 29.414 - Erection of barriers to exclude rough fish.
- 29.417 - Permit to take rough fish.
- 29.421 - Removal of rough fish.
- 29.424 - Control of detrimental fish.
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
- 29.501 - Fur dealers regulated.
- 29.503 - Wholesale fish dealer license.
- 29.506 - Taxidermists.
- 29.509 - Bait dealer license.
- 29.512 - Guide licenses.
- 29.514 - Outlying water sport trolling licenses.
- 29.516 - Fishing with nets and setlines.
- 29.519 - Commercial fishing in outlying waters.
- 29.522 - Description of nets; use of.
- 29.523 - Net licenses, Mississippi and St. Croix rivers.
- 29.526 - Slat net fishing in the Mississippi River.
- 29.529 - Trammel net fishing in the Mississippi River.
- 29.531 - Set or bank pole licenses.
- 29.533 - Setline licenses; inland waters.
- 29.535 - Shovelnose sturgeon permit.
- 29.537 - Clams, clamming and commercial clamming.
- 29.539 - Sale of wild animals.
- 29.541 - Serving of game to guests.
APPROVAL FEES AND EFFECTIVE PERIODS
- 29.553 - Processing fee.
- 29.555 - Reprint fee.
- 29.556 - Handling fee.
- 29.559 - Issuing fee.
- 29.563 - Fee schedule.
- 29.564 - Voluntary contributions; invasive species grants.
- 29.565 - Voluntary contributions; venison and wild turkey processing and donation program.
- 29.566 - Collection, retention, and deposit of fees.
- 29.567 - Voluntary contributions; elk research.
- 29.569 - Effective periods.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- 29.591 - Hunter education program and bow hunter education program.
- 29.592 - Hunting mentorship program.
- 29.593 - Requirement for certificate of accomplishment to obtain hunting approval.
- 29.595 - Elk hunter education program.
- 29.597 - Trapper education program.
- 29.598 - Outdoors skills training.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- 29.601 - Noxious substances.
- 29.604 - Endangered and threatened species protected.
- 29.607 - Wild rice.
- 29.611 - Wild ginseng.
- 29.614 - Scientific collector permit.
- 29.617 - Public hunting and fishing grounds.
- 29.621 - Wildlife refuges.
- 29.624 - Senior citizen recreation card.
- 29.627 - Domestic fur-bearing animal farms.
FISH AND GAME PROPAGATION AND STOCKING
- 29.701 - Propagation of fish; protected wild animals.
- 29.705 - Propagation of fish; removal of fish.
- 29.707 - Propagation of fish; department rules.
- 29.709 - State fish hatcheries.
- 29.713 - Trespass to state fish hatchery.
- 29.717 - Trespass on riparian land.
- 29.733 - Natural waters used in fish farms.
- 29.734 - Barriers required for fish farms.
- 29.735 - Importation of fish.
- 29.736 - Stocking of fish.
- 29.737 - Permit for private management.
- 29.738 - Private fishing preserves.
- 29.739 - Grants for walleye production.
- 29.740 - Contracts for walleye production.
- 29.741 - Food in the wild for game birds.
- 29.749 - Horicon marsh fur farm and dam.
- 29.753 - Importation of wild elk.
CAPTIVE ANIMALS SUBCHAPTER XII
WILDLIFE DAMAGE
- 29.885 - Removal of wild animals.
- 29.886 - Management of double-crested cormorants.
- 29.887 - Wildlife control in urban communities.
- 29.888 - Wolf depredation program; wolf damage claims.
- 29.889 - Wildlife damage abatement program; wildlife damage claim program.
- 29.89 - Venison and wild turkey processing and donation program.
ENFORCEMENT
- 29.921 - Warrants; arrests; police powers.
- 29.924 - Investigations; searches.
- 29.927 - Public nuisances.
- 29.931 - Seizures.
- 29.934 - Sale of confiscated game and objects.
- 29.936 - Distribution of fish and game to food distribution services.
- 29.938 - Use by the department of unclaimed, seized, or confiscated property.
- 29.941 - Assistance of law enforcement officers.
- 29.944 - Exemption from liability.
- 29.947 - Law enforcement aid program; spearfishing.
- 29.951 - Resisting a warden.
- 29.954 - False impersonation of warden.
- 29.957 - Breaking seals of department.
- 29.961 - Incorrect information.
- 29.962 - Worthless checks for approvals.
- 29.964 - Falsification or illegal possession of approvals.
- 29.967 - Prohibitions during periods of suspension or revocation.
- 29.969 - Larceny of wild animals.
- 29.971 - General penalty provisions.
- 29.972 - Revocation; failure to comply.
- 29.973 - Commercial fish reporting system.
- 29.974 - Penalties; repeaters.
- 29.977 - Civil actions for damages caused by law violations.
- 29.981 - Parties to a violation.
- 29.983 - Wild animal protection surcharges.
- 29.984 - Commercial fish protection surcharge.
- 29.985 - Fishing shelter removal surcharge.
- 29.987 - Natural resources surcharge.
- 29.989 - Natural resources restitution surcharge.
- 29.99 - Wildlife violator compact surcharge.
- 29.9905 - Great Lakes resource surcharge.
- 29.991 - Fishing net removal surcharge.
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