| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to game and fish; providing for a continuous open season for taking |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 largemouth and smallmouth bass; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4 97C.395. |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 97C.395, is amended to read: |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7 97C.395 OPEN SEASONS FOR ANGLING. |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8 Subdivision 1.Dates for certain species.(a) The open seasons to take fish by angling |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9are as follows: |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10 (1) for walleye, sauger, northern pike, and muskellunge, largemouth bass, and smallmouth |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11bass, the Saturday two weeks prior to the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend through the |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12last Sunday in February; |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13 (2) for brown trout, brook trout, lake trout, rainbow trout, and splake, between January |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.141 through October 31 as prescribed by the commissioner by rule except as provided in |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15section 97C.415, subdivision 2; and |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16 (3) for salmon, as prescribed by the commissioner by rule. |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17 (b) The commissioner shall close the season in areas of the state where fish are spawning |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18and closing the season will protect the resource. |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19 Subd. 2.Continuous season for certain species.For largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20sunfish, white crappie, black crappie, yellow perch, channel catfish, rock bass, white bass, |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21yellow bass, burbot, cisco (tullibee), lake whitefish, common carp, and native rough fish, |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1.22the open season is continuous. |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 24 | 24 | | 25-04928 as introduced03/17/25 REVISOR CKM/KR |
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| 25 | 25 | | SENATE |
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| 26 | 26 | | STATE OF MINNESOTA |
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| 27 | 27 | | S.F. No. 3031NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 28 | 28 | | (SENATE AUTHORS: HOFFMAN and Lang) |
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| 29 | 29 | | OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE |
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| 30 | 30 | | Introduction and first reading03/27/2025 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Referred to Environment, Climate, and Legacy |
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