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9-12-231
Section 9-12-231 Nets and similar devices permitted in salt and brackish waters. (a) The following
nets or similar devices may be used in Alabama salt and brackish waters: (1) A landing net,
which is a net commonly used to land fish while hook-and-line fishing. (2) A dip or crab net,
which may not exceed three feet in diameter. (3) A minnow seine, which may not exceed 25 feet
in length or 4 feet in depth. (4) A hand thrown cast net, which may not exceed 30 feet in
diameter. (5) A shrimp trawl net. (6) A net used for scientific or educational purposes; provided
that any person using a net for scientific or educational purposes shall have in his or her
possession a valid permit issued by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,
which shall enact rules governing the use of nets for scientific or educational purposes.
(7) A purse seine for the taking of menhaden by persons licensed by the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources in water designated by the department....
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9-12-35
Section 9-12-35 Cultivation, transplantation, or replanting of public reefs. The Director of
the Marine Resources Division, or his or her agents, under the direction and control of the
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, may cultivate, transplant, or replant the
public reefs of the state or may employ boats, crews, and laborers to cultivate or replant
the public reefs of the state and may employ boats, crews, and laborers to dredge the oysters
in the Alabama waters from places where they are too thick and shall spread them on reefs
where they are too thin, and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, in cultivating
the reefs, transplanting, and spreading oysters and shells, may expend such sums as it may
deem proper. (Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 169, p. 192, §11; Code 1940, T. 8, §133; Act
2010-699, p. 1692, §1.)...
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9-12-82
Section 9-12-82 License required for taking of oysters for commercial purposes; penalty; aquaculture
license; disposition of funds. (a) Before any person engages in the taking or catching of
oysters from the waters or bottoms of the State of Alabama, the person shall first purchase
an annual oyster catcher license. The license shall expire annually on September 30 and shall
be twenty-five dollars ($25) . However, persons may take for personal, noncommercial purposes,
from waters opened to commercial oystering, not more than 100 oysters per day without purchasing
an oyster catcher license. (b) Before any oyster aquaculture site or facility permitted by
the state Department of Public Health engages in the taking of oysters from the waters or
bottoms of this state, the oyster aquaculture permittee shall first purchase an annual oyster
aquaculture license. The license shall allow employees of the aquaculture facility to engage
in harvesting and sorting of oysters or to conduct other...
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9-20-2
Section 9-20-2 Definitions. The following terms and phrases shall have the following meanings
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) AQUATIC PLANT. Any plant growing in, or
closely associated with, the aquatic environment including, without limitation, floating,
emersed, submersed, ditchbank and wetland plant species. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources. (3) NONINDIGENOUS AQUATIC PLANT. Any aquatic plant
which is not an indigenous or native aquatic plant species of the State of Alabama. (4) PERSON.
Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including, without limitation, any individual,
partnership, association, society, joint stock company, firm, company, corporation, institution,
trust, estate, or other legal or other business organization or any governmental entity, and
any successor, representative, agent or agency of the foregoing. (5) PUBLIC WATERS OF THE
STATE. Those waters which are defined as public waters in Section...
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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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9-11-152
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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9-12-111
Section 9-12-111 Lengths or widths of seines, nets, and trawls. It shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to have in possession on board a boat in the waters of Alabama
or in use, any seine, trammel net, gill net or other device for the taking or catching of
saltwater fish or other seafoods having in length on the cork or main top line more than 2,400
feet except on purse seines where the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may
set additional length by regulation. When two or more nets are joined together, they shall
be considered as one, and the total length thereof must not exceed the above limitation. All
nets, seines, or trawls exceeding the prescribed length or width as set by law or regulation
may be confiscated and held as evidence, and upon conviction, the nets, seines, or trawls
shall be forfeited to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources which shall dispose
of forfeited items as it deems advisable. Any person violating this section...
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9-12-31
Section 9-12-31 Boarding of boats, etc., and entrance into places of business to investigate
compliance with laws. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or its duly authorized
agent or agents shall have authority to board any boat, barge or other watercraft which is
engaged in the taking or catching of oysters or shrimp or to enter the place of business of
any person, firm, corporation or association engaged in the seafood industry or sale of seafoods
and by inspection or investigation determine whether such boat, barge or other craft or such
business is in every respect being operated in full compliance with the provisions of the
seafood laws of this state or regulations based thereunder or whether oysters or shrimp or
other seafoods are being taken or canned, packed or processed or caught or transported in
full compliance with the laws relating to oysters and shrimp or other seafoods or regulations
based thereunder. (Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 169, §31, p. 192; Code...
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9-2-8
Section 9-2-8 Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Promulgation of rules and
regulations as to game, fish and seafood; publication and distribution of laws, etc. The Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources is authorized to make and promulgate such reasonable
rules and regulations not in conflict with the provisions of the game and fish laws as he
may deem for the best interest of the conservation, protection and propagation of wild game,
birds, animals, fish and seafoods, which rules and regulations shall have the effect of law;
provided, that the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall not have the right
to make or promulgate any rules or regulations which will hamper industry or which will interfere
with the operation of any industrial plant or plants or any industrial operation. The Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources shall not have the right to make or promulgate any rules
or regulations which will hamper or interfere with...
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9-2-85
Section 9-2-85 Duties of employees of division generally; seizure, etc., of seafoods illegally
taken, etc. The employees of the Division of Marine Resources shall diligently enforce all
laws and regulations of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources now existing
or which may hereafter be enacted or promulgated for the protection, propagation, preservation
or conservation of the seafoods of the State of Alabama and shall prosecute all persons who
violate any of such laws or regulations. Such employees shall, at any and all times, seize
any and all oysters, saltwater fish or other seafoods which have been caught, taken or transported
in a manner contrary to the laws or regulations based thereupon of this state. All seafood
which is seized by such employees shall be held as evidence and used in the trial of the violation
for which it was seized. After the trial of such violation, the seafood which has been so
seized shall be disposed of by order of the court in which the case...
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