Subd. 1.

[Repealed, 1997 c 216 s 90; 1997 c 226 s 51]

Subd. 2. Commercial fish netting on Mississippi River.

1. (a) A license is required to commercially take native rough fish with seines in the Mississippi River from the St. Croix River junction to St. Anthony Falls.

2. (b) A person may take native rough fish in the Mississippi River, from the St. Croix River junction to St. Anthony Falls, only with the following equipment and methods:

   1. (1) operations shall be conducted only in the flowing waters of the river and in tributary backwaters prescribed by the commissioner;
   2. (2) seines may be used only as prescribed by this section and rules adopted by the commissioner;
   3. (3) seines must be hauled to a landing immediately after being placed;
   4. (4) two seines may not be joined together in the water; and
   5. (5) a seine may not be landed between sunset and sunrise.