§ 20-11-7. License required for selling freshwater minnows.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or barter, or engage in the business of taking or catching for the purpose of selling or bartering, freshwater live minnows for bait, or to possess more than one hundred (100) freshwater live minnows, without first procuring a license from the department of environmental management. For the purpose of this chapter, “freshwater minnows” shall be defined to include all minnows and the young of all species of freshwater fish except the game species, trout, northern pike, pickerel, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, shad, Atlantic salmon, and alewives.
History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3; P.L. 1983, ch. 107, § 2.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing
Section 20-11-1. - Fishing for which license required.
Section 20-11-2. - Closed season.
Section 20-11-3. - Fishing devices allowed.
Section 20-11-4. - Artificially cultivated fish.
Section 20-11-5. - Sale of freshwater fish.
Section 20-11-6. - Stocking of streams and ponds.
Section 20-11-7. - License required for selling freshwater minnows.
Section 20-11-8. - Authorized traps, seines, and nets.
Section 20-11-9. - Larger seines used by licensees.
Section 20-11-10. - Injurious substances.
Section 20-11-11 - — 20-11-19. [Reserved.]