Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 76 - WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
Part VII - Fish and Other Aquatic Life
Chapter 1 - Freshwater Sports and Commercial Fishing
Section VII-101 - Lake Claiborne

A. Whereas, the Claiborne Parish Watershed District Board of Commissioners, the local regulatory body for Lake Claiborne in Claiborne Parish, passed a resolution at its meeting on March 18, 1982 requesting the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission to prohibit gill, trammel and flagg nets in Claiborne Lake; and

B. whereas, Lake Claiborne does not support high poundages of commercial species nor a true commercial fisheries; and

C. whereas, the most sought after species (catfish) can be adequately harvested by methods other than netting; and

D. whereas, past research conducted by the department has demonstrated detrimental effects of gill, trammel and flagg nets on game fish species in similar type impoundments as Lake Claiborne.

E. Therefore, be it resolved, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission hereby prohibits the use of gill, trammel and flagg nets in Lake Claiborne, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.