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MS Code § 49-7-54 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-54. Importation and translocation of white-tailed deer into state prohibited; exception for university research facilities; commission to establish regulations governing importation with emphasis on disease prevention; penalties

  It is unlawful to import and translocate live white-tailed deer into this state, except that university research facilities may import live white-tailed deer upon prior approval of the commission. The commission shall establish regulations governing the importation of white-tailed deer with emphasis on preventing the introduction of diseases.   A person who violates this section is guilty of a Class I violation and shall be punished as provided in Section 49-7-141.
MS Code § 49-7-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-55. Unlawful to possess, etc.

 It shall be unlawful for any restaurant, hotel, club, or other public eating place to knowingly have in its possession, or to offer for sale to its patrons any game birds, game animals, or game fish enumerated in this chapter, whether taken within or coming from without the state, except that any such public eating place may prepare and serve game birds, game animals, or game fish to any persons who have legally killed or taken same.
MS Code § 49-7-56 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-56. Restaurants permitted to prepare and serve recreationally caught finfish to persons who caught the fish

 It is lawful for any restaurant to possess, prepare and serve lawfully, recreationally caught marine finfish to the persons who caught the finfish.
MS Code § 49-7-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-57. Possession of lawfully taken game animal, bird or fish; unlawful possession prohibited

 Any game animal, bird or fish lawfully taken may be possessed during the open season and during the closed season. Any game animal, bird or fish unlawfully taken may not be possessed at any time.
MS Code § 49-7-58 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-58. Temporary moratorium on importation of elk, red deer, mule deer, black-tailed deer and other cervids designated as susceptible to chronic wasting disease; penalties; authority of commission

    In addition to the ban on importing white-tailed deer under Section 49-7-54, there is hereby imposed a temporary moratorium on the importation of elk, red deer, mule deer, black-tailed deer and other cervids designated as susceptible to chronic wasting disease by the State Veterinarian and crosses of any such animals into the State of Mississippi. The moratorium on importing such animals shall end upon the adoption of chronic wasting disease regulations by the United States Department of Agriculture.   Any person who possesses, buys, imports or transports any cervid that has been imported in the state in violation of the moratorium shall be subject to a Class I penalty under Section 49-7-141. Any person that imports any exotic animal into the state in violation of entry requirements or regulations of the Board of Animal Health or the Department of Wildlife shall be subject to a Class I penalty under Section 49-7-141. A second or subsequent violation under this section shall be punished by the maximum fine under Section 49-7-141. The agency issuing a permit for cervids or exotic animals within an enclosure shall revoke the permit of any person found in violation of the moratorium. If any cervid in an enclosure tests positive for chronic wasting disease or if any cervids within the enclosure have been imported from an area diagnosed with chronic wasting disease, then all cervids in the enclosure shall be deemed a threat to native wildlife and to public health and may be killed and disposed of by the state.     It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, the Board of Animal Health, the State Veterinarian, the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, and the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to consult and coordinate efforts on matters related to chronic wasting disease, the prevention of the introduction of chronic wasting disease in the state and to ensure the health and safety of the public and wildlife.   The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks shall have plenary authority in matters related to the importation of white-tailed deer, white-tailed deer in enclosures, and prevention of the introduction of chronic wasting disease into the native wildlife population.
MS Code § 49-7-58.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-58.1. Regulation of enclosures preventing free egress of white-tailed deer

  The owner of any enclosure containing white-tailed deer that prevents the free egress of white-tailed deer from the enclosed area shall notify and register with the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. The person shall give his name, the location of the enclosure, the acreage within the enclosure, and whether any deer have been imported into the state and placed in the enclosure, and any other information required by the Commissioner on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.   Persons who constructed an enclosure prior to July 1, 2003, shall have until January 1, 2004, to notify and provide the information required under this section. The person shall use acceptable hunting and wildlife management practices as may be determined by the department.   The owner of such an enclosure shall comply with any testing of white-tailed deer harvested within the enclosure as may be required by the department. If chronic wasting disease is diagnosed within five (5) miles of the enclosure, the owner of such enclosure shall allow department personnel to enter the enclosure to utilize lethal collection methods to obtain tissue samples for testing. If chronic wasting disease is diagnosed within the enclosure, the owner shall allow department personnel to enter the enclosure and depopulate the white-tailed deer within the enclosure.   A violation of this section is a Class I violation and is punishable as provided in Section 49-7-141.
MS Code § 49-7-58.2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-58.2. Program of inspecting, monitoring, testing and preventing chronic wasting disease

  The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks shall develop and implement a program for inspecting, monitoring, testing and preventing chronic wasting disease. The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks is authorized to require the chronic wasting disease testing of white-tailed deer harvested within any enclosure. If chronic wasting disease is diagnosed in white-tailed deer within an enclosure, the department is authorized to enter the enclosure and depopulate the white-tailed deer within the enclosure. If chronic wasting disease is diagnosed within five (5) miles of the enclosure, the department is authorized to enter the enclosure and utilize lethal collection methods to obtain tissue samples.   If a live test for chronic wasting disease is developed, the department is authorized to conduct such tests on white-tailed deer within any enclosure.
MS Code § 49-7-58.3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-58.3. Regulation of hunting of nonnative cervids in noncommercial wildlife enclosures

  The commission may regulate the hunting of nonnative cervids in noncommercial wildlife enclosures, and the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks may enforce such regulations and laws in the same manner as commercial wildlife enclosures as provided in Section 49-11-25.   A violation of this section is a Class I violation and punishable as provided in Section 49-7-141.
MS Code § 49-7-58.4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-58.4. Regulation of commercial and noncommercial wild animal enclosures and facilities preventing free ingress and egress of native and nonnative cervids

  The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks shall have plenary power to regulate all commercial and noncommercial wild animal enclosures in order to conserve and protect native wildlife for all citizens to enjoy and to protect our recreational economy dependent on native wildlife resources.   The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks shall regulate any facility that prevents the free ingress and egress of native or nonnative cervids as the same are defined by the commission. The commission may promulgate rules and regulations requiring the issuance of permits and the payment of a reasonable fee therefor. Regulations promulgated under this authority must have a majority vote of the commission to be adopted.
MS Code § 49-7-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-59. Hours for hunting

  It is unlawful for any person to hunt any wild animal or wild bird during the night from one-half (1/2) hour after sunset to one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise, either with or without the use of a light, except:   Beavers, bobcats, fox, opossums, nutria and raccoons; and   Coyotes by a landowner, agricultural leaseholder or his designated agent on lands owned or leased by the owner or leaseholder.     The commission shall prescribe the weapons that may be used to hunt game under this section.   A violation of this section is a Class II violation and is punishable as provided in Section 49-7-143.
MS Code § 49-7-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-61. Hunting on Sabbath

 If any person shall hunt within one-fourth (1/4) mile of any church on Sunday while worship services are being held, he shall, on conviction be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).
MS Code § 49-7-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-63. Use of traps, nets, etc., prohibited

 It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to capture wild fowl or game birds by the use of traps, nets or other contrivances, except as provided by this chapter.
MS Code § 49-7-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-65. Unlawful to hunt, when

 Except as provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, take, kill, wound or capture, or attempt to hunt, trap, take, kill, wound or capture any fur-bearing animals except during the open season prescribed by law or regulation. However, mink may be hunted with dogs during the season for taking of fur-bearing animals on payment of trapper's license fee by person so hunting mink with dogs.
MS Code § 49-7-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-67. Unlawful to sell, when

 It shall be unlawful for any person to buy, sell or offer for sale the pelt of any fur-bearing animal knowing that the same has been unlawfully taken.
MS Code § 49-7-68 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-68. Unlawful to engage in computer-assisted remote hunting; penalties

  For purposes of this section:   "Computer-assisted remote hunting" means the use of a computer or any other device, equipment or software to remotely control the aiming and discharge of archery equipment, firearms or primitive firearms to take any game animal or bird.   "Facility for computer-assisted remote hunting" means the real property and improvements on the property to facilitate computer-assisted remote hunting.       It is unlawful for a person to engage in computer-assisted remote hunting.   It is unlawful for a person to provide or operate a facility for computer-assisted remote hunting if the game animal or bird being hunted is located in this state.     A person violating this section is guilty of a Class I offense and shall be punished as provided under Section 49-7-141. Each game animal or bird killed in the violation of this section is a separate offense.
MS Code § 49-7-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-69. Use of explosives and chemicals prohibited

 It shall be unlawful for any person in the taking or killing of fur-bearing animals or fish to use poison, explosives or chemicals of any description.
MS Code § 49-7-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-71. Unlawful to disturb traps

 It shall be unlawful for any person to disturb the traps of another or to take any fur-bearing animals from them unless specifically authorized by the owner and any person so doing shall be guilty of larceny, or trespass as the case may be, and punishable as provided by law.
MS Code § 49-7-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-73. Unlawful to disturb nests or eggs

 It shall be unlawful to needlessly disturb or to destroy the nests of birds or their eggs. A violation of this section is a Class II violation and is punishable as provided in Section 49-7-143.
MS Code § 49-7-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-75. Unlawful to fire woods, when

 It shall be unlawful during the nesting season of game birds for any person to set fire to the woods or fields other than on his own premises for the purpose of driving wild animals or birds out of fields or forests.
MS Code § 49-7-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-77. Game protected during high water or fire

 It shall be unlawful to hunt, trap, take, frighten, or kill game or fur-bearing animals forced out of their natural habitat by high water or fire until they have been permitted to return to such habitat by recession of such water, or the extinguishing of such fire.   All quail shall be protected from all hunting when the ground is covered by snow or when forced out of their natural habitat by high water or fire until they have been permitted to return to such habitat by the recession of such water or the extinguishing of such fire.
MS Code § 49-7-78 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-78. Canned hunts prohibited

 For purposes of this section, the term "canned hunts" means the practice of providing a hunting opportunity under controlled conditions in which native game animals hunted may not have a reasonable opportunity to avoid the hunter. Canned hunts are prohibited in the state. The commission shall adopt regulations it deems necessary to prohibit and control such hunts. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the operation of private shooting preserves or commercial wildlife enclosures as authorized by statute.
MS Code § 49-7-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-79. Unlawful to hunt on lands of others, when

 It shall be unlawful to hunt, shoot, or trap or otherwise trespass on the lands or leases of another after having been warned not to do so, whether in person or by posting of suitable notice in conspicuous places on such lands.
MS Code § 49-7-80 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-80. Releasing aquatic species or animals not indigenous to Mississippi without permit

 No person shall stock, place, release or cause to be released into any of the public waters of the state any aquatic species without first obtaining a permit from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. No person shall release or cause to be released within this state, any animal not indigenous to Mississippi without first obtaining a permit from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. The department may issue or deny a permit after it completes a study of the species to determine any detrimental effect the species might have on the environment.   The department shall establish and maintain a list of approved, restricted and prohibited species and establish rules governing importation, possession, sale and escape of those species.   This section shall not prohibit the practice of catch and release of native fish species or the release of native fish bait species.   A person violating this section is guilty of Class I violation and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in Section 49-7-141.
MS Code § 49-7-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-83. Unlawful not to return to water game fish taken by net

 It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to return to the water, immediately, any game fish taken by net or seines or other contrivances used for the taking of fish not classified as game fish.
MS Code § 49-7-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-87. Fish, sale of, unlawful, when

  It is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale or exchange any game fish enumerated in this chapter whether taken within or coming from without the state.   The Department of Agriculture and Commerce may issue a permit to the owner of a private pond to sell fish grown or cultivated for stocking purposes only under such regulations as the Department of Agriculture and Commerce may deem necessary.
MS Code § 49-7-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-89. Fish dealers not to possess

 It shall be unlawful for any fish dealer to buy, sell, or offer to buy or sell, or to knowingly have in possession any of the game fish enumerated in this chapter whether taken within or coming from without the state.
MS Code § 49-7-90 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-90. Possession of paddlefish in violation of law or regulation; penalties; permits and fees

  Any person who takes or possesses a paddlefish or parts thereof, whether coming from within or from outside the state, in violation of law or regulation is guilty of a Class I violation and may be punished as provided in Section 49-7-141, and upon conviction, shall forfeit all hunting, trapping and fishing privileges and paddlefish permits for a period of not less than one (1) year from the date of conviction. A violator shall pay a reinstatement fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to have his or her privileges restored.   The commission may promulgate rules and regulations, establish and issue permits and establish and collect fees for permits for the harvest and sale of paddlefish and paddlefish parts.   Any person engaged in selling or peddling nonnative fish taken from public waters must possess a commercial fishing license.   Any person required to purchase a commercial fishing license must report his catch and/or other activities as required by regulation of the commission.
MS Code § 49-7-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-91. Unlawful to fish commercially in Muddy Bayou

  It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to fish commercially at any time in Muddy Bayou, in Warren County, Mississippi.   The department may enforce this section and seize and confiscate all commercial nets and seines used in Muddy Bayou, in Warren County, Mississippi, or on any part of the bayou, either along the length or at its two (2) openings in and to Eagle Lake and Steele Bayou.   Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00), nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or be imprisoned not more than three (3) months, or both; and in addition the department shall seize and confiscate all commercial nets and seines used for such purpose, and dispose of the same at private sale and place the proceeds to the credit of the State Game and Fish Fund.
MS Code § 49-7-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-93. Killing deer or spotted fawn out of season; penalties

 Any person convicted of intentionally killing any deer or spotted fawn out of season shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00); and the commission shall have authority to revoke a license for a period of one (1) year.
MS Code § 49-7-96 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-96. Deer management zones; antler restrictions

    The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks may establish deer management zones within the state.   The commission may establish antler restrictions within the zones for the proper management of antlered deer.     The antler restrictions in Sections 49-7-31 and 49-7-41 shall not apply to those zones with antler restrictions established by the commission.   If the commission establishes deer management zones or establishes antler restrictions, the department shall study and analyze all relevant data and shall file annual progress reports with the Legislature. The department shall file a final report on the effectiveness of the program with recommendations on the continuation of such restrictions.
MS Code § 49-7-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-97. Liability of public officer for failure to perform duty

 Any public officer who wilfully fails to perform any duty imposed by law or by any lawful rule or regulation of the commission, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned not more than six (6) months, or both.
MS Code § 49-7-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-103. Seizure and confiscation of property used in illegal hunting or fishing, etc., as contraband

 The following property is subject to forfeiture: any firearm, equipment, appliance, conveyance or other property used directly or indirectly in the hunting or catching or capturing or killing of deer at night with any headlight, lighting device or light amplifying device, or in fishing for, or killing or capturing fish by using a telephone, magneto, battery, or any other electrically operated device including but not limited to any all-terrain vehicle, trailer, boat, outboard motor, airplane, net, light, battery, magneto, wires, telephone device, or any other device or contrivance or other vehicle, or which may be used in the transportation of any dead or live deer taken, captured, or killed at night with or by means of a headlight, lighting device or light amplifying device, or any dead or live fish killed, stunned, captured, or taken by using a telephone, battery, magneto, or any other electrically operated device. No motor vehicle that is of the type required to be titled under the Mississippi Motor Vehicle Title Law is subject to forfeiture. Property subject to forfeiture shall be seized by any employee of the department or other officer of the law including any sheriff or deputy sheriff. Upon the seizure of such property proceedings shall be instituted pursuant to Sections 49-7-251 through 49-7-257.