Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 40 - Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks › Part 2 - Wildlife › Chapter 5 - Regulations regarding alligators › Rule 40-2-5.3 - ALLIGATOR HUNTING SEASON FOR PUBLIC WATERS

Current through June 25, 2024
A. An
				American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) hunting season will be opened
				in the public waterways of the State of Mississippi and is hereby referred to
				as the following with described restrictions.
1. Legal public water for public water
				alligator hunting shall be any "public waterway", as designated by the
				Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and all associated
				portions of each designated public waterway drainage that are not privately
				owned and which have navigable access from the designated waterway.
2. Legal public water, as described above,
				will be open for alligator hunting from 12 p.m. on the last Friday in August
				and ending at 12 p.m. on the Monday, 10 days thereafter, for persons issued
				special permits as described below.
3. PUBLIC WATERWAY HUNTING ZONE DESCRIPTIONS:
a. Pearl River/Ross Barnett Zone - The public
				waters of the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District only within the area
				north of a line from Fannin Landing to Channel Marker "A" to the Natchez Trace
				Overlook on the main lake of Ross Barnett Reservoir, and south of Lowhead Dam
				on the Pearl River (excluding all areas of the main lake that are west of the
				Natchez Trace, i.e. North Bay and Twin Harbors). All other portions of Ross
				Barnett Reservoir are closed to alligator hunting including Pelahatchie
				Bay.
b. Northwest Zone - North of
				US Hwy. 82 and west of Interstate 55.
c. West Central Zone - South of US Hwy. 82,
				west of Interstate 55, and north of Interstate 20.
d. Northeast Zone - East of Interstate 55,
				north of Interstate 20, and excluding the area described as the Pearl
				River/Ross Barnett Zone. This zone does not include any portion of the Ross
				Barnett Reservoir, except portions of the Pearl River south of the spillway,
				north of Lowhead Dam, and Pelahatchie Creek east of Highway 471 are included in
				the Northeast Zone only. All other portions of Ross Barnett Reservoir are
				closed to alligator hunting including Pelahatchie Bay.
e. Southwest Zone - South of Interstate 20
				and west of Interstate 55.
f. South
				Central Zone - South of Interstate 20, west of MS Hwy 49, east of Interstate
				55.
g. Southeast Zone - South of
				Interstate 20 and east of MS Hwy 49.
4. Public Waters shall include the following
				lakes of Mississippi within each of open hunting zones and no other land locked
				lakes shall be open:
a. Lake Ferguson
				(Washington County) in the Northwest Zone
b. Beulah Lake (Bolivar County) in the
				Northwest Zone
c. Lake Bolivar
				(Bolivar County) in the Northwest Zone
d. Lake Whittington (Bolivar County) in the
				Northwest Zone
e. Eagle Lake
				(Warren County) in the West Central Zone
f. Chotard Lake (Warren and Issaquena
				Counties) in the West Central Zone
g. Albemarle Lake (Issaquena County) in the
				West Central Zone
h. Tennessee Lake
				(Issaquena County) in the West Central Zone
i. Lake Washington (Washington County) in the
				West Central Zone
j. Bee Lake
				(Holmes County) in the West Central Zone
k. Little Eagle Lake (Humphreys County) in
				the West Central Zone
l. Dump Lake
				(Yazoo County) in the West Central Zone
m. Lake George (Yazoo County) in the West
				Central Zone
n. Tchula Lake aka
				"Tchula Run" (Holmes County) in the West Central Zone
o. Lake Mary (Wilkinson County) in the
				Southwest Zone
p. Okatibbee Lake
				(Lauderdale County) in the Northeast Zone
q. Crystal Lake (Rankin County) in the
				Northeast Zone