KRS 150.180: Buying, selling, or transporting protected wildlife, mussels and fishes, raw

fur, or processed wildlife.

(1) Except as otherwise provided for in this chapter, and subject to regulations adopted

under this chapter, no person, for himself or as the agent or employee of another

shall buy, or sell, or attempt to buy, or sell, barter, exchange, or trade, or have in

possession for the purpose of selling, bartering, or trading any protected wildlife or

part thereof, raw fur or processed wildlife, no matt er where or when caught or

killed, whether caught or killed in this state or in any other state or other country.

(2) Mussels and fishes, other than sport fishes as designated by departmental

regulations, and all fishes, regardless of species, raised by li censed propagation

permittees may be bought, sold, and transported, if in legal possession.

(3) Raw furs, if in legal possession, may be sold, transported, or shipped, by a licensed

trapper or licensed hunter to a licensed fur buyer (resident or nonresiden t), and by a

licensed fur buyer to a licensed fur processor or to another fur buyer if in legal

possession. A fur processor may hold raw furs or sell to another licensed fur

processor at any time.

(4) Subject to regulations adopted under this chapter, a pe rson who has been issued a

license under this chapter and who has the license on his person may transport

anywhere as a part of his personal baggage any protected wildlife legally taken by

him under such license, not in excess of the number that the law or regulation

permits him to have in possession at any one (1) time.

(5) A person who has legally taken any protected wildlife in another state and who has

in his possession the license which authorizes such taking may, if the same be dead,

transport the sam e in this state, as part of his personal baggage at any time during

the open season for the particular species in the state in which taken or within ten

(10) days after the close of such season. Any person may ship dead game or dead

fish so taken subject to the provisions of the laws of the state in which the same was

taken and the laws and regulations of the United States relating thereto.

(6) No person shall import or transport into the State of Kentucky or receive shipment

in the state from without the s tate, any live fish or wildlife without first procuring

from the department a written fish transportation permit or wildlife transportation

permit. If it is determined upon inspection that such fish or wildlife would not

constitute a menace to the state an d are free from disease and other undesirable

physical characteristics, the commissioner shall issue a permit for a fee to be

determined by the Fish and Wildlife Commission by administrative regulation,

pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A. A fish transportation pe rmit shall be valid for one

(1) year from the date of issuance, and a wildlife transportation permit shall be valid

for specific dates as indicated on the permit.

(7) (a) No person may at any time stock any species of fish secured from any source

into the public waters of the Commonwealth without first securing a permit

from the commissioner.

(b) The stocking or intentional release of first filial (F1) largemouth bass or

Florida (Micropterus salmoides floridanus) bass from any source into the

public waters of the Commonwealth is strictly prohibited, except that the

department may promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with

KRS Chapter 13A to stock first filial (F1) largemouth bass and Florida

(Micropterus salmoides floridanus) bass in department-owned lakes.

(8) This section shall not in any way interfere with the transportation of any fish or

wildlife by authorized personnel of the department.

(9) Federal and state regulations shall govern the transportation of all migratory wild

birds.