2005 Minnesota Statutes

     97C.205 Rules for transporting and stocking fish. 

    (a) The commissioner may adopt rules to regulate: 

    (1) the transportation of fish and fish eggs from one body 
 of water to another; and 

    (2) the stocking of waters with fish or fish eggs. 

    (b) 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.  

    (c) 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.

    HIST: 1986 c 386 art 3 s 19; 1993 c 231 s 53; 1996 c 410 s 43