Mississippi Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 49-15-46. Licensing and fees for vessels engaged in catching, taking, carrying or transporting oysters; license requirement for captain of commercial oyster vessel; designation of alternate captain for each license; transfer of vessel license; tagg...

Funds received from the shell retention fee shall be paid into a special fund in the State Treasury to be appropriated by the Legislature for use by the commission to further oyster production in this state, which includes plantings of oysters and/or cultch materials.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology

Chapter 15 - Seafood

Article 1 - General Provisions

§ 49-15-1. Public policy of the state as to seafood laws

§ 49-15-1.1. Assent to Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act

§ 49-15-2. Standards for fishery conservation and management; fishery management plans

§ 49-15-3. Definitions

§ 49-15-5. All seafoods initially the property of the state

§ 49-15-7. Oyster, clam, cay shells and other shells declared to be property of state

§ 49-15-9. Rights of riparian owners on Gulf Coast defined

§ 49-15-11. Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; transfer of certain powers and duties from Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks; Executive Director of the Department of Marine Resources; definition of terms; composition of department;...

§ 49-15-16. Limited entry fisheries management program

§ 49-15-18. Distribution of chapter

§ 49-15-19. Attorney General; designation of deputies or assistants; legal advisors to commission and department

§ 49-15-21. Enforcement officers; reserve unit

§ 49-15-22. Marine patrol officers of Department of Marine Resources permitted to keep side arm upon retirement

§ 49-15-25. Advisory council may be appointed by commission

§ 49-15-27. Commission granted authority to lease bottoms

§ 49-15-35. Authority to regulate taking and catching of menhaden

§ 49-15-37. Cultivation of oyster reefs; removal of oysters from restricted areas

§ 49-15-41. Oysters not to be caught at night

§ 49-15-43. Packaging of oysters; containers

§ 49-15-44. Sale or possession of illegal oysters prohibited; penalties

§ 49-15-46. Licensing and fees for vessels engaged in catching, taking, carrying or transporting oysters; license requirement for captain of commercial oyster vessel; designation of alternate captain for each license; transfer of vessel license; tagg...

§ 49-15-49. Pass Christian Harbor oyster check station named the Colonel George J. Wright, Sr., building

§ 49-15-61. Marine museum

§ 49-15-64. Shrimping during closed season prohibited; penalties; promulgation of rules and regulations

§ 49-15-64.1. Shrimp season: waters closed to shrimping

§ 49-15-64.2. Shrimping permitted with cast net

§ 49-15-65. Jurisdiction of courts; appeals

§ 49-15-73. Use of aircraft to assist in harvesting of redfish; penalties

§ 49-15-74. Open season for menhaden

§ 49-15-83. Interpretation and application of Sections 49-15-71 through 49-15-81

§ 49-15-87. "Peeler crab" and "soft-shell crab" defined

§ 49-15-89. Unlawful to catch, destroy, confine, hold or have in possession certain crabs

§ 49-15-91. Regulatory authority for maximum number of crab pots allowable per licensee

§ 49-15-93. Penalties

§ 49-15-94. Use of purse seine to catch mullet during roe mullet season; penalties

§ 49-15-96. Keeping of certain fish caught in shrimp nets for personal consumption

§ 49-15-97. Requirement that commercial fishing vessels use approved lights; penalties

§ 49-15-100.1. Forfeiture of vessels, motors and equipment used in violation of Section 49-15-100

§ 49-15-100.3. Prima facie evidence of use of prohibited equipment