All seafoods existing or living in waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the State of Mississippi not held in private ownership legally acquired, and all beds and bottoms of rivers, streams, bayous, lagoons, lakes, bays, sounds and inlets bordering on or connecting with the Gulf of Mexico or Mississippi Sound within such territorial jurisdiction, including all oysters and other shell fish and parts thereof grown thereon, either naturally or cultivated, shall be, continue, and remain the property of the State of Mississippi, to be held in trust for the people thereof until title thereto shall be legally divested in the manner and form hereinafter authorized, and the same shall be under the exclusive control of the commission until the right of private ownership shall vest therein as hereinafter provided.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 49-15-1. Public policy of the state as to seafood laws
§ 49-15-2. Standards for fishery conservation and management; fishery management plans
§ 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
§ 49-15-16. Limited entry fisheries management program
§ 49-15-18. Distribution of chapter
§ 49-15-21. Enforcement officers; reserve unit
§ 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
§ 49-15-64.1. 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
§ 49-15-94. 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