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97C.385 COMMISSIONER'S AUTHORITY TO REGULATE WINTER FISHING.
    Subdivision 1. Summer angling season to be closed in same proportion. If the
commissioner closes the statutory open season for the spearing of a game fish species in any
waters, the commissioner must, in the same rule, close the following statutory open season for
angling for the same species in the waters in the same proportion.
    Subd. 2. Summer angling limits must be same as spearing. If the commissioner reduces
the limit of a species of game fish taken by spearing in any waters under section 97A.045,
subdivision 2
, the commissioner must reduce the limit for taking of the species by angling in the
waters during the following open season for angling.
    Subd. 3. Closing lakes and streams in a county. The commissioner may not close the open
season for taking game fish through the ice on more than 50 percent of the named lakes or streams
of a county under section 97A.045, subdivision 2.
History: 1986 c 386 art 3 s 39; 1991 c 259 s 23

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