2006 Minnesota Statutes

97C.205 TRANSPORTING AND STOCKING FISH.
(a) Except on the water body where taken, a person may not transport a live fish in a quantity
of water sufficient to keep the fish alive, unless the fish:
(1) is being transported under an aquaculture license as authorized under sections 17.4985
and 17.4986;
(2) is being transported for a fishing contest weigh-in under section 97C.081;
(3) is a minnow being transported under section 97C.505 or 97C.515;
(4) is being transported by a commercial fishing license holder under section 97C.821; or
(5) is being transported as otherwise authorized in this section.
(b) The commissioner may adopt rules to allow and regulate:
(1) the transportation of fish and fish eggs; and
(2) the stocking of waters with fish or fish eggs.
(c) The commissioner shall prescribe rules designed to encourage local sporting organizations
to propagate game fish by using rearing ponds. The rules must:
(1) prescribe methods to acquire brood stock for the ponds by seining public waters;
(2) allow the sporting organizations to own and use seines and other necessary equipment;
and
(3) prescribe methods for stocking the fish in public waters that give priority to the needs
of the community where the fish are reared and the desires of the organization operating the
rearing pond.
(d) A person age 16 or under may, for purposes of display in a home aquarium, transport
largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, rock bass, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill
pumpkinseed, green sunfish, orange spotted sunfish, and black, yellow, and brown bullheads
taken by angling. No more than four of each species may be transported at any one time, and any
individual fish can be no longer than ten inches in total length.
History: 1986 c 386 art 3 s 19; 1993 c 231 s 53; 1996 c 410 s 43; 2006 c 281 art 2 s 47