2E Relating to game and fish; expanding the definitions of minnows and undressed bird; expanding the authority of the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to dispose of or destroy or to issue special permits to dispose of or destroy undesirable or predatory wild animals; restricting the issuance of replacement deer hunting licenses; specifying certain requirements for the issuance of resident hunting licenses; suspending the validity of fishing licenses issued to residents of other states or provinces prohibiting Minnesota residents from fishing during a part of the open season for fishing in the state or province during the first portion of the open Minnesota season, requiring purchase by the nonresidents of limited fishing and fishing boat licenses, exempting registered hotel, motel or resort guests from the restrictions; requiring parental supervision of minors under a certain age to hunt turkey; clarifying the eligibility of owners or tenants of agricultural land to hunt antlerless deer on the land with a free license; restricting the authority of certain minors to trap small game without a license; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources to give first preference to qualified military service members or veterans in drawings or lotteries involving the selection of applicants for certain hunting or fishing licenses, permits or special permits, excepting licenses or permits for taking moose, elk or prairie chickens; modifying certain requirements for the issuance of special permits for field trials and training hunting dogs; modifying the requirement for classroom instruction for trappers and requiring the issuance of certificates by the trappers association conducting the courses to trappers upon completion of the course, requiring trapper education certificates for the issuance of trapper licenses to certain persons born after a certain date; modifying certain requirements for the use of scopes by visually impaired hunters and authorizing the use of laser sights by totally blind persons with a disability using assisted hunting opportunities; prohibiting computer assisted remote hunting; eliminating the permit requirement to take fox, bobcat and lynx with a snare; extending the open season for certain upland game birds; restricting the opening of the regular duck season; further restricting the authority to take migratory waterfowl on open water; expanding the authority of the commissioner to restrict the use of motorized decoys; expanding a certain provision regulating the frequency of tending body gripping traps to all traps and snares; modifying commissioner authority to dispose of fish hatchery products; clarifying certain requirements for the measurement of fish length; modifying the season for possession of nets and spears for fishing purposes and for the taking of walleye, sauger, northern pike, muskellunge and large and smallmouth bass; modifying the size limit for walleyed pike and the net limits for Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake; authorizing the commissioner to use a good cause exemption to amend rules to conform to the fish measurement changes; repealing certain provisions relating to fishing restrictions for brook trout, the use of vehicles for trapping beaver and otter, the Mississippi River fish refuge and certain restrictions for walleye fishing on Rainy River, Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods
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