N.D. Admin. Code 30-03-01.1-13

Current through Supplement No. 395, January, 2025

Section 30-03-01.1-13 - Prohibited waters for taking legal live aquatic bait

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.

N.D. Admin Code 30-03-01.1-13

Effective April 1, 2008; amended effective October 1, 2010; January 1, 2014.

Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 367, January 2018, effective 1/1/2018.

Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2023-388, April 2023, effective 4/1/2023.

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