NR 21.11(1)(h)(h) No person may possess or control commercial fishing gear not authorized for use in the Wisconsin-Minnesota boundary waters by this chapter while on the ice or the open waters of the state or while engaged in a fishing operation involving those waters. NR 21.11(1)(i)(i) All fishers required to be licensed under the provisions of ss. 29.523 and 29.533, Stats., shall complete and submit monthly reports on forms available from the department. All reports shall be submitted to the department by the 10th of the month following each month the commercial fisher is required to be licensed. Each monthly report shall be signed by the commercial fisher. Each commercial fisher shall report all fish sold or kept whether these fish were legally or illegally taken or obtained, the buyers name, address and phone number, and all other information requested on the report form. NR 21.11(1)(k)(k) Commercial fish taken by commercial gear pursuant to this chapter may be sold only by the licensed commercial fisher whose gear was used to take the fish. A commercial fisher may not sell fish taken under the authority of another fisher’s license, unless he or she sells the other fisher’s fish under the authority of a wholesale fish dealers license. NR 21.11(1)(L)(L) No person may remove roe from a commercial fish while on the water, ice, bank or shore. Commercial fish shall remain intact until the fish reaches the final processing facility or place of business of the commercial fisher. NR 21.11(1)(p)(p) The department or its agents may require any operator of any commercial fishing gear to cease the fishing operations when the department finds these operations are destructive to game fish or they will endanger any other species of wild animal. (29.041) NR 21.11(1)(q)(q) The department by its agents, employees or wardens may in the absence of the licensee, at any time, raise any commercial fishing gear with as little damage as may be for inspection. (23.11, 29.516) NR 21.11(1)(r)(r) The use or operation of all commercial gear except those authorized in this chapter is prohibited in the Wisconsin-Minnesota boundary waters with the exception of such nets as may be authorized by the department. The specifications for the nets operated under contract with the department must be agreed upon between the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota. NR 21.11(2)(2) Gill nets; seasons, closed areas, gill net restrictions. In the Wisconsin-Minnesota boundary waters, no person may conduct commercial fishing operations with the use of gill nets, drive netting, deadset gill nets or drive set gill nets except in the manner prescribed as follows: NR 21.11(2)(a)(a) Gill nets may be used year round on the Mississippi river, except for the areas listed in pars. (b) and (c). No person may engage in drive netting of fish from the closed areas listed in par. (b). NR 21.11(2)(b)(b) No person may set or use gill nets in the following areas: NR 21.11(2)(b)1.1. Within 900 feet below any U.S. corps of engineers lock or dam on the Mississippi river. NR 21.11(2)(b)4.4. Trempealeau lakes known as Second, Third and Round lakes lying in Trempealeau county. NR 21.11(2)(b)5.5. In the Mississippi river within 300 feet of the mouth of any stream tributary to the Mississippi river. NR 21.11(2)(b)6.6. In lower pool 8, Bluff Slough from 7th Street downstream to where Bluff Slough enters Running Slough. NR 21.11(2)(c)(c) No person may set or use the types of gill nets listed in this paragraph in the following areas, during the periods indicated: NR 21.11(2)(c)1.1. Open water gill net sets are prohibited in Lake St. Croix from the highway 64 bridge at Houlton, downstream to its confluence with the Mississippi river at all times. NR 21.11(2)(c)2.2. Dead set gill nets and drive set gill nets may not be used in pool 4, between river mile 780 and 797 from March 1 through May 31. NR 21.11(2)(c)3.3. Dead set gill nets may not be used in all of lower pool 7 at any time. NR 21.11(2)(d)1.1. Only gill nets with a mesh of 7 inches stretch measure or larger may be used. NR 21.11(2)(d)2.2. Gill nets may not be used as a drift net and may not be used as or in place of a seine. NR 21.11(2)(d)3.3. At each end of every gill net set in open water there shall be a buoy on each end of the gang. The buoys shall have a staff extending at least 3 feet above the surface of the water. Upon the upper end of the staff there shall be a flag at least 10 inches square. Upon the bowl of the buoys there shall be maintained in plain figures the license number of the licensee. On gill nets set through the ice there shall be maintained on each end of the gang a board or similar material which shall bear the license number authorizing the use of the net. NR 21.11(2)(d)4.4. Each gill net set in open water shall be lifted and emptied of all fish at least once each day following the day set. Each gill net set under the ice shall be lifted and emptied of fish at least once every 2 days following the day set. NR 21.11(2)(d)5.5. Gill nets may not be set, drawn, lifted or operated in any manner between one-half hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise without prior permission of the department. NR 21.11 NoteNote: Contact a local department conservation warden or fish manager to request prior permission.
NR 21.11(2)(d)6.6. Gill nets may not be set in a manner that will shut-off more than one-half the width of any channel, bay or slough. NR 21.11(2)(d)7.7. A gill net may not be set within 1,000 feet of any other commercial fisher’s gill net or frame net.