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Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 77.0191: RETENTION OF REDFISH, SPECKLED SEA TROUT, AND LIGHTNING WHELKS.
Where this section sits in the code
- PARKS AND WILDLIFE CODE
- TITLE 5. WILDLIFE AND PLANT CONSERVATION
- SUBTITLE D. CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSKS
- CHAPTER 77. SHRIMP
- SUBCHAPTER B. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO SHRIMPING
(a) No person who is using a trawl for the purpose of taking shrimp may retain a redfish, speckled sea trout, or lightning whelk, also known as Busycon perversum pulleyi, caught in the trawl.
(b) No person may retain a redfish, speckled sea trout, or lightning whelk if the person is on board a boat licensed under this chapter and if there is a shrimp trawl on board the boat.
Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3818, ch. 592, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1983. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 524, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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