1997 Minnesota Statutes

     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 Repealed, 1997 c 216 s 90; 1997 c 226 s 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 

*   NOTE:  The amendment to this section by Laws 1997, chapter 
*216, section 90, is effective March 1, 1998.  Laws 1997, chapter 
*216, section 161.