Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 47.038 · Subchapter B. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO COMMERCIAL FISHING LICENSES
SEINES OR NETS FOR MENHADEN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), nets or purse seines used for catching menhaden may not be:
(1) less than one and one-half inch stretched mesh, excluding the bag;
(2) used in any bay, river, pass, or tributary, nor within one mile of any barrier, jetty, island, or pass, nor within one-half mile offshore in the Gulf of Mexico; or
(3) used for the purpose of taking edible aquatic products for the purpose of barter, sale, or exchange.
(a-1) The holder of a Class C menhaden boat license issued under Section 47.008 may use a cast net, as defined by the commission, to catch menhaden in any coastal bay, river, or tributary landward from the shoreline of the state along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
(b) No person lawfully catching menhaden in the tidal water of this state may sell, barter, or exchange any edible aquatic products caught in a menhaden seine or net. Possession of edible aquatic fish in excess of five percent by volume of menhaden fish in possession is a prima facie violation of this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1111 (H.B. 2218), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2019.
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