Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 76 - WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES › Part VII - Fish and Other Aquatic Life › Chapter 3 - Saltwater Sport and Commercial Fishery › Section VII-335 - Reef Fish-Harvest Regulations

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Recreational bag limits regarding the
				harvest of reef fish: triggerfishes, amberjacks, grunts, wrasses, snappers,
				groupers, sea basses, tilefishes, and porgies, within and without Louisiana's
				territorial waters.
Species
Recreational Bag Limits
1. Red Snapper
2 fish per person per day
2. Queen, mutton, blackfin, cubera, gray, silk,
							 yellowtail snappers, and wenchman
10 fish per person per day (in aggregate) with not
							 more than 5 mutton snapper per person in the bag limit.
3. Vermilion snapper, lane snapper, gray triggerfish,
							 almaco jack, goldface tilefish, tilefish, and blueline tilefish
20 per person per day (in aggregate) with not more
							 than 1 gray triggerfish and not more than 10 vermilion snapper per person
							 included in the bag limit.
4. Speckled hind, black grouper, red grouper, snowy
							 grouper, yellowedge grouper, yellowfin grouper, yellowmouth grouper, warsaw
							 grouper, gag grouper, scamp
4 fish per person per day (in aggregate) with not
							 more than 1 speckled hind and 1 warsaw grouper per vessel and with not more
							 than 2 red grouper per person and not more than 2 gag grouper per person
							 included in the bag limit
5. Greater amberjack
1 fish per person per day
6. Banded rudderfish and lesser amberjack
5 fish per person per day (in aggregate)
7. Hogfish
5 fish per person per day
8. No person shall possess goliath grouper or Nassau
							 grouper whether taken from within or without Louisiana territorial waters per
							 LAC 76:VII.337.
B.
				Reef Fish Permits
1. All persons who do not
				possess a permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service under the
				federal fishery management plan for the harvest of Gulf of Mexico reef fish
				resources are limited to the recreational bag limit. To commercially harvest,
				sell, barter, trade or exchange or possess for commercial purposes all species
				of reef fish including dwarf sand perch and sand perch, but (excluding queen
				triggerfish, black seabass, porgies, and grunts) requires a valid federal reef
				fish vessel permit be on board the vessel and in the immediate
				possession.
2. For a person aboard
				a vessel operating as a charter vessel or headboat to fish for, or harvest, or
				possess, in or from the EEZ, any species of reef fish including dwarf sand
				perch and sand perch (but excluding queen triggerfish, black seabass, porgies,
				and grunts) a valid federal charter vessel/headboat reef fish permit must have
				been issued to the vessel and must be on board the vessel and in immediate
				possession.
3. Persons who are
				limited to a recreational bag limit shall not sell, barter, trade, exchange or
				attempt to sell, barter, trade or exchange any reef fish.
4. A person subject to a bag limit may not
				possess during a single day, regardless of the number of trips or the duration
				of a trip, any reef fish in excess of the bag limits.
5. No person aboard any commercial vessel
				shall transfer or cause the transfer of reef fish between vessels on state or
				federal waters.
6. For-hire vessels
				operated by a legally licensed Louisiana guide having a valid recreational
				offshore landing permit in possession and fishing the waters of the state
				during an open season can harvest and possess a recreational limit of reef
				fish.