North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 30 - Game and Fish Department
Article 30-03 - Fishery Management
Chapter 30-03-01.1 - Bait Vendors
Section 30-03-01.1-13 - Prohibited waters for taking legal live aquatic bait

Current through Supplement No. 392, April, 2024

Licensees shall not be permitted to take legal live aquatic bait from the following:

1. Waters managed as recreational fisheries (except the Missouri River system where rainbow smelt may be taken) without a permit issued and, in the manner, approved by the director;

2. Waters designated by the department as infested with prohibited or regulated aquatic nuisance species (except the Missouri River system where rainbow smelt may be taken);

3. The United States fish and wildlife service's wildlife development areas, waterfowl production areas, or refuges;

4. The department's wildlife management areas (except the Missouri River system where rainbow smelt may be taken); or

5. Any waters that have been licensed as a private fish hatchery in the past three years.

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

General Authority: NDCC 20.1-06-14, 20.1-17-01

Law Implemented: NDCC 20.1-06-04, 20.1-17-01, 20.1-17-06

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