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Repealed, 1997 c 216 s 90; 1997 c 226 s 51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 rough fish with seines in the Mississippi river from the St. Croix river junction to St. Anthony Falls.

2. (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. (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.

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