HLS 24RS-598 ENGROSSED
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 460
BY REPRESENTATIVE KERNER
FISHING/COMMERCIAL: Allows full size trawl gear for bait shrimp on permitted vessels
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 56:497(B)(2), relative to trawl gear; to provide relative to the
3 taking of bait shrimp with a special bait dealers permit; to allow full sized trawl gear
4 for permitted vessels; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 56:497(B)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง497. Saltwater shrimp seasons; bait shrimp
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9 B.
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11 (2) Bait shrimp may be taken in state waters during the closed seasons, but
12 only in cast nets; dip nets with a diameter not to exceed three feet operated only by
13 hand without any mechanical device or pulley whatsoever; bait traps; and bait seines
14 in compliance with R.S. 56:323 and 500(B). No bait shrimp may be taken in state
15 waters during closed seasons with the use of a butterfly net, paupier, skimmer net,
16 trawl, night trawl, or beam trawl except as set forth in this Subpart with the special
17 bait dealers permit as provided by the commission pursuant to Subsection C of this
18 Section.
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are additions. HLS 24RS-598 ENGROSSED
HB NO. 460
DIGEST
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of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 460 Engrossed 2024 Regular Session Kerner
Abstract: Authorizes full size trawl gear for bait shrimp on permitted vessels.
Present law specifies specific gear that may be used to take bait shrimp during the closed
seasons, and provides for gear that may not be used to take bait shrimp.
Proposed law modifies present law by allowing for bait shrimp to be taken subject to the
conditions of the special bait dealers permit as provided by the commission.
(Amends R.S. 56:497(B)(2))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Natural Resources and
Environment to the original bill:
1. Make an exception for taking bait shrimp with the special bait dealers permit
provided by the commission pursuant to present law.
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