Delaware Code
Chapter 9. FINFISHING IN TIDAL WATERS
§ 914. Commercial food fishing license; requirements and fees.

A commercial food fishing license shall be issued to an individual in accordance with the requirements and procedure set forth below in this section:

(1) The fee for a commercial food fishing license for an individual who is a resident of this State shall be $150.
(2) The fee for a commercial food fishing license for an individual who is a nonresident of this State shall be $1,500, except that for a resident of the State of New Jersey, who qualifies as a commercial fisher to obtain a food fishing equipment permit for gill net to fish in only that portion of the Delaware River, east of the center line of the shipping channel, and north of 39 degrees 30′ north latitude the fee shall be $150.
(3) When by or pursuant to the laws or regulations of any other state should said state impose any tax, other fee or restrictions on nonresidents for the privilege of commercial fishing for food fish within its boundaries, which tax, or other fee is in the aggregate greater or restriction is greater to include but not be limited to the nonavailability of a license for nonresidents, the similar or identical taxes, other fees, license requirements and restrictions shall be imposed by the Department upon the residents of that state who seek to apply for a commercial food fishing license from the Department to fish within the boundaries of this State.
(4) A commercial food fishing license shall expire on the last day of the calendar year in which said license is issued by the Department.
(5) The Department shall not issue any commercial food fishing license after December 31 in any calendar year.
(6) All commercial food fishing license holders shall file monthly reports of their catch by effort, species and weight on forms provided by the Department.

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Delaware Code

Title 7 - Conservation

Chapter 9. FINFISHING IN TIDAL WATERS

§ 901. Purpose of chapter; policy of State; interstate fishery management plan; advisory committee.

§ 902. Application of chapter.

§ 903. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control; authority; permits; regulations.

§ 903A. Striped bass quotas and tags.

§ 904. Advisory Council on Tidal Finfisheries; establishment; organization; authority.

§ 906. Definitions.

§ 907. Equipment and methods used for fishing for game fish.

§ 908. Equipment and methods used for fishing for bait fish.

§ 909. Fishing for bait fish in tidal waters.

§ 910. Types of fishing equipment and methods used for fishing for food fish.

§ 911. Scientific permit; issuance; information; expiration; report; equipment marking and identification requirements.

§ 912. Sale, trade and/or barter of game fish.

§ 913. Sale, trade and/or barter of food fish.

§ 914. Commercial food fishing license; requirements and fees.

§ 915. Food fishing equipment permit; requirements, fees and restrictions.

§ 916. Finfisheries Development Fund.

§ 917. Areas restricted for using certain fishing equipment.

§ 918. Interfering with fishing equipment.

§ 919. Menhaden fishing; penalties.

§ 920. Marking requirement for fishing equipment; exception for minnow traps; removal of stakes, anchors and lines.

§ 921. Identification requirements for equipment.

§ 922. Length restrictions on certain nets.

§ 923. Gill nets; restrictions on use; seasons.

§ 924. Unattended fishing equipment.

§ 925. Fishing with explosives, chemicals, poisons and other devices; exception for Department and agents.

§ 926. Extracting oil or making fertilizer from food and game fish; penalty.

§ 927. Fishing with trawl nets, purse seines, run around gill nets; penalty; exceptions.

§ 928. Interstate transfer of finfish.

§ 928A. Trade in shark fins; penalty.

§ 929. Size limits on finfish; exceptions [Subject to the provisions of 64 Del. Laws, c. 251, § 4].

§ 930. Striped bass spawning areas.

§ 931. Theft and attempted theft of fishing equipment or finfish from fishing equipment.

§ 932. Removal and inspection of fishing equipment by authorized personnel; confiscation and sale of illegally used equipment.

§ 933. Search of persons, boats, vessels and commercial facilities.

§ 934. Seizure and forfeiture of finfish.

§ 935. Sale of seized finfish.

§ 936. Enforcement; penalties; seizure and forfeiture of illegally used property; injunctions; false statements.

§ 937. Suspension or refusal to issue commercial finfishing license.

§ 938. Creel limits on finfish; exceptions.

§ 939. Fishing seasons; exception.

§ 940. Food fish dealer permits.

§ 941. Headboat/charter boat fishing permits; reporting requirements.

§ 942. Control of invasive finfish species.

§ 943. Tagging striped bass.