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23:5-17. Fishing at night for certain fish prohibited; penalty
No person shall take, in any manner, any trout, bass, pike perch, pike or pickerel during such hours as is prohibited by the State Fish and Game Code, or, in the absence of such provision in said code, between nine o@clock in the evening and daylight of the morning following, under a penalty of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each fish so taken.
Amended by L.1948, c. 448, p. 1824, s. 72, eff. April 1, 1949.
23:5-24.1. License to fish with net; possession
No person shall fish with, set, fix, fasten, draw, or drift any net of any description whatsoever, from or in the inland marine waters, bays, coves, rivers, or creeks, or in the Atlantic ocean within 3 nautical miles of the coast line, unless he shall first have procured a license as hereinafter provided or as otherwise provided by this Title, and shall have received the required license and have it in possession at the time of fishing.
L.1941, c. 211, p. 610, s. 1. Amended by L.1948, c. 175, p. 917, s. 1, eff. June 12, 1948; L.1979, c. 10, s. 1, eff. Feb. 5, 1979; L.1980, c. 120, s. 1, eff. Sept. 29, 1980.
23:5-24.2. Fish-netting license fees
A person intending to take fish with a net in the waters aforesaid shall, except as hereinafter provided, apply to the commissioner for a license therefor, and the commissioner upon receipt of the application and the fee hereinafter prescribed may in his discretion issue licenses for the taking of fish with nets.
a. The commissioner shall establish resident fees within the following ranges:
(1) Haul seines, $25.00 to $50.00 per net;
(2) Fykes, $12.00 to $30.00 per net;
(3) Miniature fykes or pots, $100.00 to $200.00 regardless of the number, provided that not more than two miniature fykes or pots may be used for the taking of eels for bait without a license. Eels taken without a license may not be sold or used for barter;
(4) Bait nets, $10.00 to $50.00 per license;
(5) Drifting gill nets, $20.00 to $50.00 per net;
(6) Staked or anchored gill nets, $3.00 to $10.00 per net;
(7) Pound net, $100.00 to $200.00 per net;
(8) Wire pound net, $25.00 to $100.00 per net;
(9) Parallel nets, $10.00 to $30.00 per net;
(10) Lobster or fish pots, $100.00 to $200.00 regardless of the number of pots used;
(11) Horseshoe crab dredge, $15.00 to $30.00 per vessel;
(12) Shrimp trawl, $12.00 to $30.00 per net.
b. No license shall be required for the following:
(1) Dip nets 24 inches in diameter or less used for the taking of herring for live bait;
(2) Bait seines 50 feet long or less;
(3) Cast nets 20 feet in diameter or less;
(4) Lift or umbrella nets four feet square or less;
(5) Five killi-pots or less measuring not over 10 inches in diameter or 25 inches in length, if cylindrical or 2,000 cubic inches for any other conformation.
Fish taken under this subsection may not be sold or used for barter.
c. Nonresident license fees shall be the same as resident fees if a resident of this State may obtain a license to fish for similar species of fish with similar gear in the nonresident applicant@s state for the same fee as a resident of that state. Otherwise, the license fee for a nonresident is 10 times the license fee charged to a resident.
The commissioner may, pursuant to the ~Administrative Procedure Act,~ P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
L. 1941, c. 211; amended by 1942, c. 174, s. 1; 1948, c. 175, s. 2; 1948, c. 472; 1951, c. 53; 1953, c. 258; 1966, c. 207, s. 1; 1967, c. 302; 1975, c. 116, s. 12; 1979, c. 199, s. 69; 1980, c. 120,s. 2; 1983, c. 366, s. 2; 1985, c. 108; 1987, c. 68, s. 1.
23:5-24.3. Hauling seines; restrictions on use
No person shall use a hauling seine in the Atlantic ocean within three hundred feet of the coastline, and no hauling seine shall be drawn beneath the ice in any waters.
L.1941, c. 211, p. 611, s. 3. Amended by L.1942, c. 174, p. 539, s. 2, eff. May 13, 1942.
23:5-24.13. Repeal
Sections 23:9-59 to 23:9-93, inclusive, 23:9-99, 23:9-101 to 23:9-107, inclusive, and 23:9-113 of the Revised Statutes are repealed.
L.1941, c. 211, p. 614, s. 14.
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