Michigan Compiled Laws § 324.48719 Legal Sizes Of Fish; Mutilation.


324.48719 Legal sizes of fish; mutilation.

Sec. 48719.

(1) A person shall not take or possess any of the following:

(a) Brook trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, steelhead, lake trout, and splake of a length less than 7 inches when taken from the inland waters or 10 inches when taken from the Great Lakes and connecting waters.

(b) Black bass, largemouth or smallmouth, and landlocked salmon of a length less than 10 inches.

(c) Great northern pike, grass pike, or pickerel of a length less than 20 inches, except that in Cisco lake, Thousand Island lake, Big African lake, Lindsley lake, and Poor lake in the Cisco chain of lakes and the West Branch of the Presque Isle river, all in the Upper Peninsula, great northern pike shall not be of a length less than 14 inches, and the department may lower size limits in designated waters.

(d) Pike-perch or walleyed pike of a length less than 13 inches.

(e) Muskellunge of a length less than 30 inches.

(f) Sturgeon of a length less than 42 inches.

(2) A person shall not possess on any waters over which this state has jurisdiction any fish that is so mutilated that the identification or measurement of that fish is impossible.


History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Popular Name: Act 451
Popular Name: NREPA


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