9-11-140
Section 9-11-140 Use of commercial fishing gear in public impounded waters and navigable
streams - When, where, and how permitted. 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. (Acts 1953, No. 784, p. 1069, §1.)...

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9-11-141
Section 9-11-141 Use of commercial fishing gear in public impounded waters and navigable
streams - License - Required generally. Prior to using any nets, seines, traps or other commercial
fishing devices, as specified in this article, a person shall, except to the extent otherwise
provided for in this article, have first secured a license permitting the use of such fishing
gear, such license to be issued in the manner prescribed by this article. (Acts 1953, No.
784, p. 1069, §1; Acts 1991, No. 91-580, p. 1067, §1.)...
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9-11-142
Section 9-11-142 Use of commercial fishing gear in public impounded waters and navigable
streams - License - Individual licenses required; exception for certain assistants. It is
the intent of this article that the license provided herein for the taking of commercial or
nongame fish from the public impounded waters and navigable streams of the State of Alabama
shall be issued upon an individual basis only, and, except to the extent otherwise provided
for in this article, each person engaging in such activities or operations shall be required
to purchase said license. It is hereby provided, however, that each person licensed pursuant
to the provisions of Sections 9-11-141 and 9-11-142 may be assisted by one "helper"
or assistant, who shall, while in the course of such assistance, be located in the licensed
person's boat and/or shall be accompanied by the licensed person at all times. While engaged
in providing such assistance, said "helper" or assistant shall be exempt from the...

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9-11-145
Section 9-11-145 Use of commercial fishing gear in public impounded waters and navigable
streams - License - Forfeiture. Upon conviction of any person for the violation of any of
the provisions of this article, all licenses held by any such person to fish commercially
or operate or use commercial fishing gear in the public impounded waters or navigable streams
of this state shall be forfeited for a period of 12 months from the date of conviction. (Acts
1953, No. 784, p. 1069, §10; Acts 1975, No. 1122, p. 2211, §1.)...
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9-11-143
Section 9-11-143 Use of commercial fishing gear in public impounded waters and navigable
streams - License - Issuance; fees; records; disposition of fees. The judge of probate, the
commissioner of licenses or such person or persons duly appointed by the Commissioner of Conservation
and Natural Resources and so authorized by him to issue the license provided by this article
shall issue such a license to any resident of this state complying with the provisions of
this article and shall sign his name and shall require the person to whom the license is issued
to sign his name on the margin thereof. The license for the use of such commercial fishing
gear as authorized under the provisions of this article shall be $100.00. A resident of the
State of Alabama, as applicable to this article, shall be a person who has resided continuously
in this state for 12 months next preceding the application for said license. The person or
persons issuing said licenses shall keep in a book or on specially...
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9-11-144
Section 9-11-144 Use of commercial fishing gear in public impounded waters and navigable
streams -License - Expiration. Each license issued under the provisions of this article shall
expire on September 30 of the year for which such license is issued. (Acts 1953, No. 784,
p. 1069, §3.)...
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9-11-147
Section 9-11-147 Marking location of and identifying fishing gear. It shall be unlawful
for any person to use any of the fishing gear mentioned in Section 9-11-141, except
slat boxes, in the public impounded waters and navigable streams of this state without marking
their location by buoys or floats and identifying such nets and lines by showing the license
number in plain figures upon the buoys or floats. The license number must be attached to all
seines and nets, and at least one such buoy shall bear the name and address of the owner.
It shall be unlawful to use slat boxes in said waters without permanently affixing thereto
a metal tag stating thereon the name, address and license number of the licensee operating
and using each slat box. (Acts 1953, No. 784, p. 1069, §2; Acts 1981, No. 81-351, p. 506,
§1.)...
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9-11-148
Section 9-11-148 Game fish taken to be returned to waters; possession of game fish by
commercial fishermen. Should any species of fish designated by the laws or regulations of
this state as game fish be taken from the public impounded waters or navigable streams of
this state by the use of commercial fishing gear, such fish, without injury, shall be immediately
returned to the waters from whence they were taken. The possession by commercial fishermen
of any of such fish shall constitute a violation of the provisions of this article, and such
possession by such commercial fishermen shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that such
fish were taken by the use of commercial fishing gear. (Acts 1953, No. 784, p. 1069, §6.)...

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9-11-152
Section 9-11-152 Shipment or transportation of fish taken in violation of article; seizure,
confiscation and disposition of fish illegally transported or shipped. It shall be unlawful
to knowingly ship or transport or to knowingly receive for shipment or transportation any
fish taken from the public impounded waters or navigable streams of this state in violation
of the terms of this article; and should such fish be knowingly shipped or transported or
knowingly received for shipment or transportation, the same shall be seized and confiscated
and, upon confiscation, shall be disposed of as ordered by the Commissioner of Conservation
and Natural Resources. (Acts 1953, No. 784, p. 1069, §11.)...
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9-11-80
Section 9-11-80 Public and private waters defined. (a) All waters of this state are
hereby declared to be public waters if such waters are natural bodies of water such as rivers,
creeks, brooks, lakes, bayous, bays, channels, canals or lagoons or are dug, dredged or blasted
canals and if these waters traverse, bound, flow upon or through or touch lands title to which
is held by more than one person, firm or corporation. Any water impounded by the construction
of any lock or dam or other impounding device placed across the channel of a navigable stream
is declared a public water. All waters caused to be impounded or owned or leased by any municipality,
county or other governmental unit are also declared to be public waters; likewise, all impoundments
owned or operated by public utilities when such impoundments touch or bound lands title to
which is held by more than one person, firm or corporation are declared to be public waters;
provided, that before any person may go or be upon the...
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