HB-5481, As Passed House, December 17, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

HOUSE BILL NO. 5481

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

by amending section 48721 (MCL 324.48721), as added by 1995 PA 57.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 48721. (1) Except as otherwise provided in an order

 

authorized under part 411, a A person shall not in a single day

 

catch, kill, or have in possession at any 1 time more than the

 

number of fish indicated as follows:

 

     (a) Brook trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, steelhead, lake

 

trout, and splake, in any combination of species, 10 when taken

 

from rivers and streams or 5 when taken from inland lakes or Great

 

Lakes, but not more than 10 pounds and 1 fish.

 

     (b) Largemouth and smallmouth black bass, 5.

 

     (c) Bluegills, sunfish, warmouth bass, rock bass, and

 

crappies, 25 aggregate of any 1 species or in any combination of

 

species.

 

     (d) Pike-perch, 5. Any person may take and possess 10 pike-

 

perch when legally taken in the connecting waters or the waters of

 

the Great Lakes.

 

     (e) Saugers, 20, when taken from the waters commonly known as

 

the Portage canal and including Portage lake and Torch lake, all in

 

Houghton county. Saugers when so taken shall not be bought or sold.

 

     (f) Northern pike, 5.

 

     (g) Landlocked salmon, 5.

 

     (h) White bass, 10; 25 when taken from the Great Lakes or

 

connecting waters.

 

     (i) Whitefish, 12.

 

     (j) Sturgeon, 2 per season. A person shall not possess

 

sturgeon on or along the shores of an inland water except during

 

the months of January and February.

 

     (k) Perch, 50 in the Upper Peninsula and all waters of the

 

Great Lakes that are within the jurisdiction of this state and are

 

10 or fewer miles from a border of the Upper Peninsula; in all

 

other waters of the state, 100. possess more than the daily

 

possession limit or aggregate daily possession limit, as

 

applicable, of fish at the place where the fish were taken or in

 

route from that place to either of the following:

 

     (a) His or her automobile or other principal means of land

 

transportation.

 

     (b) His or her residence or temporary place of lodging.

 

House Bill No. 5481 (H-3) as amended December 17, 2009

     (2) A person shall not in a single day catch, kill, or possess

 

more than a combined total of 5 largemouth or smallmouth bass,

 

pike-perch, and northern pike, except that a person may take and

 

possess a combined total of 10 of those fish when taken in the

 

connecting waters or the waters of the Great Lakes.

 

     (3) In addition to 1 day's possession limit of fish, a person

 

may possess an additional 2 days' possession limit of fish that are

 

processed by any of the following methods:

 

     (a) Canning in a sealed container.

 

     (b) Curing by smoking or drying.

 

     (c) Freezing in a solid state.

 

     (4) A person's processed fish aboard a vessel, on the water or

 

at dockside, shall be considered to be in the person's possession

 

for the purposes of subsection (3).

 

     (5) (3) A person shall not possess a fish illegally taken.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect April 1,

 

2010.

     [Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 unless House Bill No. 5662 of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.]