North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 30 - Game and Fish Department
Article 30-03 - Fishery Management
Chapter 30-03-01.1 - Bait Vendors
Section 30-03-01.1-12 - Equipment for taking legal live aquatic bait

A person possessing only a retail license may take legal live aquatic bait with a seine not exceeding twenty-five feet [7.6 meters] in length and six feet [1.8 meters] in depth or with traps not larger than thirty inches [76 centimeters] in length, and twelve inches [30.5 centimeters] in diameter, with a throat opening not to exceed one and three-quarter inches [4.445 centimeters] in diameter. The mesh size of both seine and traps shall not exceed three-eighths inch [9.5 millimeters] square measure.

A person possessing the appropriate wholesale license may take legal live aquatic bait with fish traps less than seven feet [2.1 meters] in any dimension. Mesh size shall not exceed one-half inch [12.7 millimeters] square measure and the throat opening shall be less than three inches [76.2 millimeters] in diameter or width. A valid tag issued by the department must be attached to each trap. Seines used by a licensed wholesaler shall be restricted to those less than two hundred fifty feet [76 meters] in length and fourteen feet [4.25 meters] in depth. Mesh size shall not exceed one-half inch [12.7 millimeters] square measure. A tag issued by the department must be affixed to each seine used by the licensee. Only seines and dip nets may be used for the taking of rainbow smelt.

Any bait vendor who violates this section is guilty of a noncriminal offense and shall pay a two hundred dollar fee.

General Authority: NDCC 20.1-06-14

Law Implemented: NDCC 20.1-06-04