Sec. 26-114. Prohibited acts.
Sec. 26-114. Prohibited acts. No species of fish or bait shall be fished for or taken
in the inland district except as authorized under the provisions of this chapter and the
regulations issued by the commissioner. Any species of fish or bait taken during the
closed season for such species, or less than the legal length, or in excess of the daily,
season or possession limits for the species involved, shall not be possessed and all such
fish or bait shall, without avoidable injury, be immediately returned to the waters from
whence taken. No person shall fish, take, attempt to fish or take or assist in fishing or
taking or attempting to fish or take any species of fish or bait in the inland district except
as authorized under the provisions of this section. Each fish or bait species taken or
possessed contrary to the provisions of this section or the regulations issued by the
commissioner shall constitute a separate offense. No person shall buy, sell or exchange,
offer for sale or exchange, or possess with intent to sell or exchange, any species of
trout, any species of salmon specified by the commissioner, black bass, calico bass or
crappie, chain pickerel (Esox niger), great northern pike (Esox lucius), or pike perch,
wall-eyed pike (Stizostedion vitreum) or any bait species, except as provided under the
provisions of this chapter and as authorized under regulations issued by the commissioner. Each fish or bait species sold, purchased, exchanged or possessed contrary to
the provisions hereof shall constitute a separate offense.
(1955, S. 2520d; 1957, P.A. 337; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 299.)
History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection
commissioner.
See Secs. 26-116 and 26-117 re exceptions to provisions of this section and penalty for violation of provisions, respectively.