Alabama § 9-11-140 Use of Commercial Fishing Gear in Public Impounded Waters and Navigable Streams - When, Where, and How Permitted

Alabama Statutes

§ 9-11-140 — Use of Commercial Fishing Gear in Public Impounded Waters and Navigable Streams - When, Where, and How Permitted

Alabama § 9-11-140

Title 9Conservation and Natural Resources

Ch. 11Fish, Game and Wildlife

Art. 4Commercial Fishing in Public Impounded Waters and Navigable Streams

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Ala. Code § 9-11-140 (2026).

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Any person engaged in the taking, killing or capturing of commercial or nongame fish from the public impounded waters and navigable streams of the State of Alabama may use in such commercial fishing operations hoop and fyke nets, seines, gill nets, trammel nets, setlines, trotlines, snaglines and lawful fish traps. However, all such nets, setlines, trotlines, snaglines and fish traps shall conform to the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources covering the same, who shall designate when, where and how same shall be used.

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Any person engaged in the taking, killing or capturing of commercial or nongame fish from the public impounded waters and navigable streams of the State of Alabama may use in such commercial fishing operations hoop and fyke nets, seines, gill nets, trammel nets, setlines, trotlines, snaglines and lawful fish traps. However, all such nets, setlines, trotlines, snaglines and fish traps shall conform to the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources covering the same, who shall designate when, where and how same shall be used.