Section 25.14. Possession of fishing equipment.

 

(1)  No licensed commercial fisher or any member of the crew or any person aboard the boat shall have in possession any game fish or sport angling equipment while operating commercial fishing gear or while traveling to or from the operation of such gear in any of the outlying waters.

(2)  No person shall have in possession any commercial fishing gear while on the outlying waters unless in possession of a valid license issued pursuant to s. 29.519 , Stats. or otherwise authorized by the department.

(3)  Unless otherwise authorized by the department, no person may raise, remove or otherwise tamper with another person's commercial fishing gear set in any water. This restriction does not apply to agents of the department or to a person licensed as a crew member for the person whose gear the licensed crew member is raising, removing or otherwise tending.

(4)  Unless authorized by the department, no commercial fisher licensed by the department under s. 29.519 (1m) , Stats., may do any of the following:

(a) Operate or allow any of the commercial fisher's crew members to operate any boat listed on the commercial fisher's license if there are any lake trout tags on board the boat that were not issued by the department to a department-licensed commercial fisher.

(b) Allow any boat listed on the commercial fisher's license to be used for setting, removing, raising or otherwise tending any net that was not placed by a department-licensed commercial fisher in accordance with s. NR 25.09 .

(c) Allow any of the commercial fisher's nets that are marked or identified as department-licensed nets to be used by any person who is not a commercial fisher licensed by the department under s. 29.519 (1m) , Stats., or who is not the commercial fisher's crew member.

History: Cr. Register, September, 1976, No. 249 , eff. 10-1-76; renum. from NR 25.17 and am. Register, October, 1979, No. 286 , eff. 11-1-79; renum. from NR 25.14, Register, June, 1984, No. 342 , eff. 7-1-84; renum. from NR 25.13, Register, January, 1985, No. 349 , eff. 2-1-85; CR 08-060 : cr. (3) and (4) Register June 2009 No. 642 , eff. 7-1-09.