Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 22 - MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES › Part 3 - REGULATIONS TO PROVIDE SIZE LIMITS AND BAG LIMITS ON CERTAIN FISH SPECIES, PREVENT SALE OF SEAFOOD BY RECREATIONAL FISHERMEN, AND PROVIDE REGULATIONS FOR THE USE OF NETS, TRAPS, AND POTS FOR THE TAKING OF FINFISH › Chapter 02 - DEFINITIONS › Rule 22-3-02-2.1 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
A.
BAG LIMIT -
The total number
				of a particular species that a recreational fisherman can retain for a single
				day's catch.
B.
CAST NET -
Any cast net or brille net or any circular or conical weighted net
				designed to be thrown downward by hand and withdrawn by an attached
				line.
C.
CHARTER VESSEL
				-
A vessel carrying a passenger for hire who is engaged in recreational
				fishing.
D.
COMMERCIAL EEL
				FISHING -
A fishing activity using traps or pots where the sole purpose
				is to catch American eels (
Anguilla rostrata
). It shall be
				unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to retain any fish or shellfish
				other than adult eels while engaged in commercial eel fishing. An adult eel
				shall be defined as an eel at least six (6) inches in length.
E.
COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN
- Anyone
				who sells, trades, barters or otherwise exchanges or offers to exchange any
				part of his catch for monetary or personal gain.
F.
ENTANGLEMENT
- A method in
				which fish are primarily ensnared or entangled by the gills or other boney
				projections through interaction with gear.
G.
ENTRAPMENT
- A method in
				which fish are primarily surrounded and confined, not entangled by the gills or
				other boney projections, within a space through interaction with
				gear.
H.
FINAL DESTINATION
				-
A place on the mainland or a barrier island, not including piers or
				jetties, where the fishermen finally lands his catch and does not further
				transport the fish by boat.
I.
GIG -
Any handheld shaft with one or more points which may or may
				not be barbed.
J.
GILL NET
				-
any net, of one or more layers, not customarily used for shrimp or
				menhaden fishing, with a mesh of such size and design as to be used primarily
				to catch or entangle fish by the gills or other boney projections.
K.
HAUL SEINE
- A net set
				vertically in the water column and pulled by hand or by power to capture fish
				by entrapment through encircling and confining fish within itself, the shore or
				bank as a result of mesh size and construction. Haul seines shall be
				constructed of a mesh size not to exceed fifteen sixteenths (15/16") bar and
				one inch and seven eighths (1 7/8") stretch and shall not be constructed of
				monofilament.
K.
KING
				MACKEREL FISHING -
a fishing activity where the sole purpose is to catch
				king mackerel (
Scomberomorus cavalla
). It shall be unlawful
				for any person, firm, or corporation, while engaged in any net fishing activity
				or "set" to catch in excess of ten percent (10%) by weight of species other
				than king mackerel while king mackerel fishing.
L.
LANDED
- When seafood is
				first brought to a point of land after being harvested and is no longer
				transported by boat or vessel.
M.
MULLET FISHING -
A fishing activity where the sole purpose is to
				catch mullet (
Mugil
sp.). It shall be unlawful for any person,
				firm, or corporation, while engaged in any mullet fishing activity or "set" to
				catch in excess of ten percent (10%) by weight of species other than
				mullet.
N.
PURSE SEINE
				-
any net or device commonly known as a purse seine and/or ring net that
				can be pursed or closed by means of a drawstring or other device that can be
				drawn to close the bottom of the net, or the top of the net, or both. Such nets
				are constructed of mesh of such size and design as not to be used primarily to
				entangle commercial size fish by the gills or other boney
				projections.
O.
RECREATIONAL
				FISHERMAN -
Those individuals taking and/or catching seafood for
				recreation or personal consumption.
P.
SEINE
- Any net used to
				enclose or entrap fish either in a bag or where its ends are pulled together on
				a vessel or a shore and constructed with a mesh of such size and design as not
				to be used primarily to ensnare or entangle commercial size fish by the gills
				or other boney projections.
Q.
SET POLE and LINE -
A line attached to a pole, suspended over
				water
,
located along a shoreline. This gear does not include
				rods with an attached reel or cane poles actively attended on-site by a
				fisherman engaged in fishing from the adjacent shoreline.
R.
TOTAL ALLOWABLE CATCH
- The
				total amount of fish allowed to be caught in a given year.
S.
TRAMMEL NET -
Any device
				composed of layers of netting material attached to one or more float lines or
				one or more weighted bottom lines, with the layers of netting being constructed
				of fine mesh and of larger mesh so that a fish attempting to pass through the
				device pushes the smaller mesh through the larger mesh creating a pocket or
				compartment in which the fish is entrapped, entangled, or restricted.
T.
TROTLINE -
A stationary
				anchored line with more than three (3) baited hooks.
MISS. CODE ANN.
				  §§
										49-15-1,
				  49-15-3,
				  49-15-5,
				  49-15-15,
				  49-15-30,
				  49-15-35,
				  49-15-35,
				  49-15303, 49-15-304, 49-15-305, 49-15-307,
				  50 CFR
				  622.38