Arkansas Administrative Code
Agency 002 - Game and Fish Commission
Rule 002.00.85-003 - Code Book Regulations: 002.00.85-003

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 2, February 2024

GAME ANIMALS - Black bear, bobcat,

coyote, deer, fox, mink, opossum,

rabbit, raccoon, and squirrel.

GAME BIRDS - Turkey, quail, pheasant,

chuckar, and all birds classified by the U- S. Fish and Wildlife Service as migratory game birds.

GAME FISH - Black Bass, white bass,

striped bass, striped bass hybrid,

crappie, catfish, trout, bream,

sunfish, goggle-eye, wall-eye, northern pike, muskellunge, sauger, and pickerel.

GUIDE - A person uho helps or aids, for hire, another person to hunt or fish.

HUNT - The search or pursuit of wildlife with the purpose of taking or attempting to take by any method with intent to reduce to possession.

KILLING DEVICE - Any firearm, bow and arrow, crossbow, pellet gun, or any other device capable of killing wildlife.

NON-RESIDENT - Any person not defined as 'resident'.

NUISANCE ANIMALS - Any wild animal creating a problem by committing damage to personal property (Depredation

Permit available).

NUISANCE FURBEARING ANIMALS - Beaver,

muskrat, and nutria.

PAY LAKE - Private waters open to public fishing for a fee, after being licensed by the Commission and where no fishing license or daily limit of fish is imposed.

PEN-RAISED QUAIL - Quail that Are

hatched from eggs of quail raised in captivity in pens or cages.

PERSON - Any individual, firm,

corporation, association, or partnership in singular or plural as the context requires.

POSSESS - To have under control or on the person, in a vehicle, in a boat, or in a camp.

PROTECTED GAME SPECIES - Any game species of which the taking is prohibited or limited by seasons.

RESIDENT - All persons uho have established a bona fide or actual residence of at least 60 days prior to applying for a license, and who declare their intentions of becoming a citizen of Arkansas.

Possession of Arkansas real estate by persons living outside the state does not qualify the owner as a resident.

Servicemen and women stationed

(permanently assigned) in Arkansas are granted resident privileges for hunting and fishing. Servicemen and women who were Arkansas residents at the time of entering service Are also granted resident privileges for hunting and fishing, regardless where stationed.

ROUGH FISH - fill fish not declared to be game fish.

SNAGLINE - Commercial tackle consisting of a horizontal line with hooks or drops less than 24 inches apart.

TACKLE - Any rod, reel, pole, line,

net, yo-yo, seine, or any other apparatus or device used to take fish.

TAKE - To shoot, kill, trap, snare,

catch, or otherwise reduce to possession.

TO FISH - To catch, attempt to catch,

kill, collect, net, trap, spear or otherwise attempt to reduce to possession.

WATERS. OF THE STATE - All streams,

lakes, sloughs, bayous, marshes, or any other water wholly or partially within the State. Pay lakes and fish farms are excluded from the above.

WILDLIFE - Any protected animal, bird,

fish, frog, or reptile.

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA ( UMA )

Designated areas set aside by the

Commission and distinguished by certain markers. (Referred to as "WMA" or

"WMAs").

ZONE - Any area defined or delineated by the Commission where hunting and/or fishing activities apg regulated for that specific area.

CONFISCATION AND SEIZURE